Archive for the ‘cool’ Category
about time :)
Thursday, May 26th, 2011Saw in a tweet from David Pogue that someone has finally implemented a DVR-for-radio. Only took three years for someone to build
I haven’t started playing with DAR.fm yet, but it looks pretty cool!
new residence
Monday, February 7th, 2011jeopardy! was wrong
Thursday, January 6th, 2011A recent Final Jeopardy! question said there are two pairs of countries which differ in spelling by only two letters: Australia/Austria and one other. The answer they were looking for was Niger/Nigeria.
Well, I was thinking about this recently and realized there is a third pair: Mali/Malawi.
It’s not often you see errors on Jeopardy!
cloudy driving in progress
Thursday, May 13th, 2010nook
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009I’ve not yet been impressed by any of the e-book readers I’ve seen – with Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader being the apparent “market leaders” in the segment.
However, Barnes & Noble’s new Nook may change my mind. From the early reviews, it appears to have a better screen, longer battery life, and more natural navigation than either the Sony or Amazon offerings.
My previous experience with eBooks has not been overly positive, with proprietary software and awkward navigation on my PC. However, with the multi-format-capable Nook – I may be ready to give eBooks a try again.
avoiding the voicemail prompts
Thursday, September 10th, 2009I just found this article from David Pogue that indicates how to avoid the voicemail prompts and greetings:
It turns out that each carrier offers a “bypass the instructions” keystroke that takes you directly to the beep. (It bypasses both the person’s own recorded greeting and the 15-second carrier nonsense.)
To be as evil as possible, the carriers do not promote or tell you about the existence of this keystroke. Furthermore, the key to press is different with each company:
* for Verizon
1 for Sprint
# for AT&T
# for T-Mobile
wedding plans
Friday, September 4th, 2009Have begun.
I just got a site setup for my fiancee and I to keep our friends and family up-to-date on what’s going on: http://warrenmyers.com/wedding/.
And yes – she picked the blog theme
more help from stackoverflow
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009I realize I asked this question a while back, but in reviewing some of my history, I was reminded of how helpful the site has been for a variety of issues.
And I’m sure that questions like this one regarding VMware and VPNs is something “I should have known” – but not knowing where to look for appropriate data is what makes sites like these so helpful.
I do still wonder, though, how we remember what we know, and whether out-sourcing our collective minds is still a Good Idea™…
tiny code
Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009I ran across the Tiny Code site recently, and was reminded of how many of us started programming on ancient machines that barely had enough horsepower to handle typing – yet we’d spend hours on end writing little games and whatnot that had to be small or they wouldn’t run.
I’d love to see a return to a minimalist approach to development – but I know it’s only a pipe dream.


