Why, yes, I *am* that creepy horse in Google’s PDX street view
He came by and took photos during lunch. That’s me in the red shirt.
He came by and took photos during lunch. That’s me in the red shirt.
Windows Natural Scrolling and Synergy A little over a year ago, I wrote about setting up “natural scolling” on Windows. I tried it for a week or so and never quite got used to it. One of the biggest setbacks was the software I use to connect my Windows and Linux boxes together as one [...]
Last month, I did the Portland Bike Commute Challenge. You may remember the post. I did not end up with quite the score-card I hoped for, but…
It seems like all engineers like to name things in clever ways along a common theme. Most often, this manifests itself in the names of computers. All of the servers in a given server room or individual rack might get named after Simpsons characters, the seven dwarves, the seven deadly sins, the nine greek muses, [...]
Today a couple of different people at work commented on the screensaver I currently use. It is xanalogtv from the xscreensaver package. It simulates switching channels on an old boxy rotary-channel-selector television, complete with snow, image ghosting, wiggly vertical sync, and all of that. The author of this screensaver put in an impressive amount of [...]
I wrote briefly about it before, but many years ago I used to work as a low-level tech at a virtual reality company. When I wasn’t operating or hacking the system, I was repairing it. These repairs were sometimes a little complex, but 99% of the time, they boiled down to two things. Reboot. If [...]
As you may or may not know already, I recently started a new job. The new company makes a lot more heavy-duty use of C++ than the previous one did. Among the C++ code is the 3rd party Boost C++ library. I had peripherally heard of Boost before, but had never looked too deeply at [...]
There is a great guy named Merlin Mann whose work I have been appreciating for years. He is pretty much a time and productivity guru, although I am not sure you’d be able to catch him using the word “guru” to describe himself in any way. He invented the Hipster PDA and Inbox Zero. Earlier [...]
If you’re going to do something, do it big. Make it spectacular. Whether it’s a fantastic success, an amazing effort, or an astounding failure, make it something people will talk about for a long time. A couple of weeks ago the office in which I work did a bit of a reshuffle. We ran out [...]
The other night, @verso tweeted a question about running a little wiki on a home file server. I responded with TiddlyWiki, which is a whole wiki contained in a single HTML file. It actually may or may not fulfill her needs, since there are huge concurrency and remote access issues — it’s designed to be [...]