Doppler
If you're reading this: did I hand you my radar detector a couple years back when I sold my car? I genuinely can't remember who has it.
Curtis Jones
My Other Profession
I'm famous. macdesktops.com.
Cloud Computing
I can't wait until "cloud computing" gets shoved out of the vernacular. But given that "cyber-" still haunts government press releases two decades past its expiration, I suspect I'll be hearing this one for a long time.
Postgres, Timestamps and the C API
A surprise from libpq: pass "1" for binary results and a Postgres timestamp comes back as a 64-bit count of microseconds since 2000. Here's the arithmetic to turn 303,687,735,731,339 back into a date you recognize.
INTJ
I've never read anything that describes me as well as this profile of the INTJ Myers-Briggs type. Crazy stuff. Update: I made an INTJ shirt on Zazzle.
Burglars Beware
Found another use for my webcam, which last guarded my apartment while I was in Alaska. It's now saving a 950K image every minute, building toward a week's worth of footage and a time lapse of my amazingly interesting driveway. In theaters soon.
The Colorless Green Ideas Slept Furiously
I've resurrected my Random Sentence Generator project by cracking open the grammar books I bought years ago. The author writes English structure so formulaically she might be a programmer. Now I just need a good name for the thing. Ideas?
A Mouse
New computer, no trackpad, so I need a mouse. My requirements: laser preferred, Bluetooth if wireless, not a Microsoft mouse, and ideally not from a company that uses serial commas in its product literature. Thank you for your help.
Software is Hard & Microsoft's Long, Slow Decline
While I wait for FedEx to deliver my new computer, two articles worth saving: "Software is Hard," which calls software construction the most complex thing mankind has attempted, and "Microsoft's Long, Slow Decline."
Microsoft ... A Strategic Communicator
Microsoft's incoming VP of Corporate Communications praises the company's belief in "the strategic power of communications." Not innovation, not advancing the state of the art. Mostly FUD. It's amusing to watch someone so plainly fail to cover that up.