Why, yes, I *am* that creepy horse in Google’s PDX street view
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He came by and took photos during lunch. That’s me in the red shirt.
Category Archives: Work
Windows Natural Scrolling and Synergy
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 [...]
Bike Commute Challenge: Final Score
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…
Rock, Scissors, Fire
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, [...]
My last cable box had pushbuttons
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 [...]
Have you tried switching it off, then on again?
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 [...]
Boost C++ & Operator Overloading
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 [...]
Money vs. Culture
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 [...]
The Neo-Victorian Cubicle
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 [...]
Wikis and notepads and text files, oh my!
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 [...]