I was just browsing through the MIT OpenCourseWare, and the amount of freely available information available is quite impressive. The courses span many departments, although I mainly checked out the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science section. They have lecture notes on many different classes, both undergraduate and graduate, covering pretty much all aspects of the [...]
While going through the paperwork that has accumulated since our move a few weeks ago and paying bills, I had to log into the Cingular and Allstate websites. For some reason, both are down for maintenance right now (and this is not even the first time this has happened to me). Is this really necessary? [...]
Since we moved to San Mateo a little over a week ago, my commute shrunk from about 25-45 minutes (depending on traffic) to less than 10 minutes. This in itself is great, and I really don’t miss driving. However, it does have a minor downside: I can no longer catch up on podcasts while commuting.
Until [...]
I had to temporarily disable comments until I have time to upgrade Wordpress and improve my spam protection.
I had barely gotten any comment spam over the last year or so, but since yesterday this has changed again. I am currently getting spammed at the rate of about 2 comments per minute…
It hasn’t been officially announced yet, but as reported by this blog post, Google has launched a new service: Google Mars
It’s just like Google Maps, except that it allows you to view Mars (doh!). There are three different views: Elevation, Visible, and Infrared. There are also clickable landmarks for the various successful and unsuccessful Mars [...]
Merry Crispness - or Christmas, Hannukah, Winter Solstice, or whatever you may or may not be celebrating.
On December 25th we celebrate Newton’s Birthday because Newton actually was born on December 25th. We call the holiday Crispness because it’s about keeping your mind crisp. And it’s not a coincidence that it’s the same day as Christmas [...]
Here is a great article from the July 2002 edition of Scientific American: 15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense.
The article contains 15 great answers to typical points that creationists use to attack the theory of evolution. There are also some good links to additional resources at the end, such as Skeptic Magazine. I might have to [...]
Apparently a woman was forced to leave a Southwest Airlines plane for wearing an offensive T-Shirt. The shirt bore pictures of Bush, Cheney, and Rice, along with the caption “Meet the Fuckers”, a play on the recent movie title “Meet the Fockers”. I actually saw the exact same shirt at a store in San Francisco [...]
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This has been lying on the kitchen table in the office since yesterday…
Windows is everywhere…
Originally uploaded by DigitalHobbit.
Windows error message on childrens’ arcade machine
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Flickr test, originally uploaded by DigitalHobbit.
Just testing posting images from my mobile phone.
I just successfully switched hosting providers. Looks like everything’s up again and running happily on the new host.
Now that I’m getting more serious about switching to Linux, I had to come up with a good strategy for sharing data between Linux and Windows. I still need Windows XP for games, and potentially for a few other applications, so I’m not quite ready to give it up completely. Unfortunately, sharing data between the [...]
I don’t tend to post political comments on my blog, but Andy Hunt dug up this wonderful, 84 year old quote that seems oddly relevant now:
When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is that they are [...]
According to this Slashdot posting, the BBC has announced that it will be releasing new radio adaptations of Douglas Adams last three Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy books. The clou is that Douglas Adams himself will provide the voice for Agrajag, a character whose reincarnations keep getting killed by Arthur Dent. Apparently, Douglas Adams always [...]
Martin Fowler shares some of his experiences of synchronizing several computers. Interesting timing, as I have just ordered a new laptop myself (although I admittedly don’t program a whole lot in my virtually non-existent spare time these days, thanks to my two daughters who tend to keep my busy… ). On the PC side, [...]
Nokia just announced that they have started shipping the impressive Nokia 7610 Series 60 camera phone. The price tag of somewhere over $600 seems a little hefty, but with service provider discounts this will probably be available for a lot less. The feature list certainly sounds awesome: 1 Megapixel camera, MIDP 2.0, 8MB internal memory [...]
It looks like I almost missed the blog train, but at least I was still able to jump on at the last second. It looks like pretty much everyone else already has a blog. Even Microsoft’s Bill Gates recently acknowledged the importance of blogs.
Oh well, once you’re done reading the other thousands of blogs out [...]
Hello, and congratulations on finding my blog. It is somewhat surprising that it has taken me this long to join the blogging community, given that I have been using the Internet since the early to mid-nineties, when virtually nobody had Internet access at home and students like myself were just starting to browse the web [...]
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