fighting the lack of good ideas
Let me compare the experience I wrote about yesterday to another I had the same year with the first customer I was ever sent to – HSBC. Just a couple weeks after starting with ProServe in 2008, I was sent to Chicago to do a final PoC for HSBC. Someone else had done a PoC…
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As shared in the most recent Crypto-Gram, Bruce Schneier’s monthly newsletter. 1980s – kid hackers, nerds and Richard Pryor 1990s – Techno, virtual reality and Steven Seagal’s Apple Newton 2000s – Real life hackers, computer punks and Hugh Jackman dancing
In similar fashion to what I wrote about for OS X last year, and spurred by this article from Microsoft, here is my brief guide for doing the same on Windows 10. Click your Notifications button near the clock. Now click All Settings And you’ll see this Click Personalization, then Lock Screen. Select “Slideshow” from the…
Since the magic number (and I’ll take the example of baseball, because while I don’t get to watch them much, I do follow the Mets) is so easy to calculate, why not post it on the standings as soon as there have been games played? This would be a good use of technology relative to baseball…
continue “hey yahoo! sports – why not always post the magic number for every team?” »
I love that OS X lets me change my background on a schedule (I use every 30 minutes now). But I don’t like having to find pictures to populate my desktop menagerie with. Enter completely SFW backgrounds via RSS feeds! Using IFTTT, I watch for new items from a variety of daily photo feeds, and…
continue “ifttt & box drive my desktop backgrounds … with a little cron happiness” »
Mike Riley’s entry in The Pragmatic Programmers series, Programming Your Home – automating with Arduino, Android, and your computer – was a lot of fun. While I am not really in a position to do many of the mini projects given in the book (wrong type of house plus we rent), reading some of the…