August 2008
16 posts
“I remember watching the American conventions at home, and — as is correct...”
– roll-call of the presidents
“Speaking of amazing cameras, the upcoming Nikon D90 DSLR shoots video. Video, I...”
– Advance Testing the Nikon D90. FWIW I’ve read elsewhere (and can’t find it now) that the D90 won’t let you change aperture during a video shot, and AF-C won’t work. So I wouldn’t call it all the exposure and depth-of-field control of an SLR camera.
Directing JavaScript with Arrows (Functional... →
I just implemented something remarkably similar to this as part of a recent project, but the formal approach taken in this paper makes me want to reimplement my work as a more generic library.
“But you know what, how about we all agree, all of us who write about writing...”
– Build One to Throw Away. Amen.
“Did the fun stop there? Hell no. We walked past a trailer that was aptly named,...”
– Heaven! I will never let David forget that Big Fat Bacon was too much for him, and that he wanted a salad instead!
“We just launched two new ways to give your web apps free and secure access to a...”
– Google Code Blog: Two new ways to location-enable your web apps. Nice!
“While traditional cron jobs are executed at set times, inotify cron, or incron,...”
– Scheduling jobs based on filesystem activity with incron. Looks useful.
Clifford Stoll on…everything →
A great TED talk by Cliff Stoll. The Cuckoo’s Egg came out at about the same I got my first Internet account, and that convergence had a big influence on the directions my education and career have taken.
“If our research capability is to remain vibrant, we need more science and math...”
– Memo to the Next President. I can’t help but quote a good dig at creationists, but the rest of the memo is actually more insightful.
“My Flickr account is my Yahoo! account. If I use Yahoo! Mail, it’s my...”
– Simon Willison nicely sums up why OAuth matters, in a discussion about suspicious behavior by the iPhone app “Exposure”
“Nikon is a competent camera company. The IOC is a competent sports impresario....”
– Lock-In, the 2008 Flavor
“The control to manage the % is in iSync (in the Applications folder). Open it,...”
– Apple - Support - Discussions - “Syncing with MobileMe will change more than 5% of your calendars”. Thank goodness I finally found this—it was driving me nuts!
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