What do Z and O have in common?
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
What do my friend, Zenfishing, and our president-elect, Barack Obama, have in common?
See if you can spot it. (Telegraph UK, 50 facts you may not know about Barack Obama)
Archive for the ‘Geeky’ Category
Geekish Nibblettes
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
Need a bit of relief from idiotic emails? A classic on “punctuation substitution” from the inimitable Ze
Someone’s take on 33 of the best programming fonts. Recently I switched from ProFont to Monaco.
Ah, those crazy internet memes: a mouse down memory lane.
Tech-related Nibblettes
Saturday, August 23rd, 2008
A “Lethal Weapon” espresso machine? It gets odder from there.
24: the unaired 1994 pilot episode
This is to precious to miss. Please watch.
Learning from (Stephen) King and (Joss) Whedon : can you hear the creaking of a shift?
Joss Whedon is now in the new media entertainment space. Stephen King is, too. If we snag Steven Spielberg, I reckon a great many eyes will open, a great many hands will slap against foreheads, and we’ll see some much-needed mainstream movement towards using the ‘Net as a viable platform to deliver original content to audiences.
Pandora on the verge of collapse
Why is this happening? Last year, web radio giants were hit with outrageously ridiculous fees by a federal panel for every song that would be played on their stations. This caused a lot of services to either shutdown, or go through what Pandora has been experiencing for the past year.
RANDOM.ORG offers true random numbers to anyone on the Internet. The randomness comes from atmospheric noise, which for many purposes is better than the pseudo-random number algorithms typically used in computer programs.
Posted in January, would be interesting to read in December. (Business Week)
And you thought you knew the history of the internet. (NY Times)
Late to the party
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008
…but enjoying it greatly nonetheless. I’ve had a laptop since it was my sole computer: a Titanium MacBook circa 2001 or so (550 MHz, 20GB HD). The past several years it’s been an occasional internet music streamer or portable DVD player and not much else. I didn’t have a wireless set-up (years ago had an early Airport which had since been sold) and hadn’t replaced the ancient original battery in the laptop (which made it impractical for remote use — if you wanted more than 15 minutes you needed to be near a plug).
But within the past week or two I’ve invested about $90 in a new battery, about $60 for an 11g card — the highest it will take (less the $50 rebate I’ll get for turning in the old 11a card), and about $99 for an Airport Express (11n out) wireless device.
On the “out and about” end of things, I’ve recently had one and will have another client meeting using the laptop.
But to the genesis of this post. I am lying back in M’s hammock in the shade of the pergola in the back garden, browsing inspiration sites to generate some trains of thought for a new (self) project, listening to birds twitter and coo whilst watching the leaves tremble in the gentle breezes.
I think I’ve “got” this laptop thing you’ve spoken about, D.
uuuurrrrrghhhhhh!
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
So, I didn’t .. erm .. spend enough time on social networky sorts of things. Now I’ve joined Seesmic. Been described as like Twitter or Friendfeed but with video. Sort of.
Bad Behavior has blocked 10 access attempts in the last 7 days.