30 Jan 2009
Folding Paper in Half Twelve Times - In one day Britney was the first person to set the record for folding paper in half 9, 10, 11 or 12 times. The task was commonly known...
28 Jan 2009
In a rash moment, I tweeted the following a while at Codemash 2009: At the styling Silverlight controls talk. Jesse Liberty has burned me twice now with his ill prepared sessions and showing up late....
25 Jan 2009
Yesterday, the family and I went to a really interesting little museum. Well, that’s what they call it but it’s more of an arcade. I found out about this museum from an episode of Modern...
24 Jan 2009
Open Wide. Now Wider… - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com – Phillips new 56-inch Cinema 21:9 TV, a 1080p LCD HDTV is a super-wide aspect ratio designed to exactly fit the dimensions of wide screen movies....
19 Jan 2009
One of the coolest presentations I attended at CodeMash 2009 was a session on Bazaar, an open source, distributed version control system. It’s hard to imagine getting excited about something as mundane as version control...
17 Jan 2009
With all the news about record cold temperatures (it was -14°F the other morning sans wind chill) it’s interesting to note how much Windows can leak. The temperature on the left is from a remote...
16 Jan 2009
Asynchronous Fire and Forget With Lambdas – Check out the comments. Writing good multithreaded code is never as easy as it seems. Geeknews » Playmobil Security Check Point Toy? WTF? - How in the world...
13 Jan 2009
Version 1.7 of Desk Drive introduced a bug. When enough files were added or deleted from a removable device (like a USB stick), Desk Drive would add another shortcut to the desktop. This bug was...
10 Jan 2009
Arrived home late from CodeMash 2009 so I’m a day late posting. A very good conference. I’m thinking of volunteering for next year but more on that later. How to roll your own Mac for...
04 Jan 2009
Just in time to welcome in the new year, Desk Drive 1.7 adds three new translations and a cool little feature suggested by one of our users. Version 1.7 adds additional information to the shortcut...