Sudoku Scraper: newspaper sudoku in your Hipster PDA

The other day, I published my Sudoku Scraper code, both on a project page here at Netninja and over at GitHub. For a while, I have had a little PHP script that scraped the USA Today and New York Times websites for the daily sudoku puzzle.  And for a while, this script was the homepage on my iPhone. … Continue reading Sudoku Scraper: newspaper sudoku in your Hipster PDA

Netninja Mobile, now with sudoku

A little over two years ago, back when the iPhone SDK consisted of “here, kid, here’s a text editor, now go away and make yourself a nice little web page, and quit botherin’ me,” I quickly hacked together a little web control panel and called it Phonemarks. It ran, and continues to run in some … Continue reading Netninja Mobile, now with sudoku

Drinking coffee could help to activate your prefrontal cortex

I finished all of the sudoku on Brain Age and all I got was this stupid 100% readout. There was no fanfare, no congratulatory message, nothing. Lately, I have only been playing the sudoku part of Brain Age — and I have not even been playing that all that much.  I really should get back … Continue reading Drinking coffee could help to activate your prefrontal cortex

Hipster Sudoku

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2007/03/Last time, I talked about printing or stamps, but I caved in and simply made a smaller Sudoku grid. The previous … Continue reading Hipster Sudoku

My 3×5 Life

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2007/03/This is another Hipster PDA report from the front lines. Previous ones are tagged hipsterpda. A month or two ago, I … Continue reading My 3×5 Life

Hipster PDA Revisited

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2007/02/After about a month of using a Hipster PDA, I have to say that parts of it are working extremely well … Continue reading Hipster PDA Revisited

Sudoku Theory

Please note that all blog posts before 8 April 2007 were automatically imported from LiveJournal.  To see the comments and any LiveJournal-specific extras such as polls and user icons, please find the source posting at http://brianenigma.livejournal.com/2007/01/There is a surplus of sudoku books available at most bookstores. They all have one thing in common: they have a … Continue reading Sudoku Theory