My main desktop PC, the one I play warcraft and occasionally code in, has been bizarrely unstable lately. In a way that hasn’t been too easy to diagnose. At first, it was only when I was in Windows, it would lock up or suddenly reboot. Usually right in the middle of a melee. Yesterday, it […]
Yesterday I hacked together a quick script that lets me send photos to my blog and used these pictures to test it. Its real secure too – please don’t guess my secret email address for it – its not too obvious actually – but obscurity is no substitue for real security. You do have to
Steven Pearlstein’s column describes GlobalGiving, which is looking to hook up small donors with international aid projects. Interesting numbers, they’be raised $1.5M from 2000 donors, that’s about $750 per donor. It’s also a great example of the wisdom that’s in crowds: On its Web site, GlobalGiving provided brief descriptions of 112 development projects, asking site
An awesome flash application that lets you build a simple flipbook like animation one frame at a time. Part of the charm is the simplicity of it all, you can draw in black and white, there are no colors or erasing short of erasing the whole frame. Here’s a quick doodle of a simple castle
Found two very useful Mac applications yesterday that I wanted to pass along: JHymn strips the DRM from iTunes Store files (without needing an iPod to unencrypt the files). I was annoyed that 2 song’s I’d purchased and put on my iPod wouldn’t play at work, where I use a Linux desktop. All the MP3’s
In case you haven’t heard yet, the Google Maps API has been made public. This opens up their mappping capabilities to more developers without having to rely on the hacks and workarounds you may have seen earlier. Here are my ideas for some useful applications: A map view of an address book type list. It
Jon Udell’s column on tacit knowledge about computers touches on a trait that can be used to separate computer geeks from regular users. Computer geekds know how to and are comfortable figuring out how to do something with their computer (setup mail filters, reconfigure their desktop, automate repetitive tasks) and casual users are frustrated by
We may be witnessing the beginnings of a more mainstream backlash against Windows and the general frustration they inflict on average users. I’ll start by adding that I still have 2 windows installations used solely for playing World of Warcraft. My main machine dual boots to Debian Linux, where I do the occasional bit of
Looks like the push to replace the Space Shuttle has revived, after Bush pretty much killed the effort (not the Shuttle) with his “let’s go to Mars” speech. The Washingon Times reports that NASA is planning to retire the shuttle fleet by 2010 and will need a new vehicle to send astronauts and supplies up
Graph paper provided endless hours of distraction for me back in the day. Now, you can get various styles of graph paper as PDF – tons of styles. From boingboing.