fighting the lack of good ideas
As with many others, I suppose, I have various email address come and go: perhaps via job changes, or graduating/changing schools, deciding to sell a domain, or any of a host of other reasons. There’s a problem with that, though: when those changes happen, sometimes access to other digital resources becomes…difficult. For example, I have…
About 14 years ago, good friends of the family bought an old farm house with some outbuildings in rural Schoharie County in NY (outside Middleburgh, in a locale called “Hunter’s Land”). One of the first things they wanted to do with the house was to re-engineer the heating, which included properly insulating the house, and…
There have been a variety of stories recently about MacDefender, and the recent [small] wave of malware attacks on Mac OS X systems. For years, one of the most-touted features of the Mac was its [relative] immunity to malware: the number of viruses, trojans, etc for any edition of the Macintosh is remarkably small: with…
Saw 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!
Years ago, my mom and I would routinely try to catch episodes of Square Foot Gardening (SFG) on PBS. Hosted by Mel Bartholomew, a retired civil engineer, SFG was a program whose aim was to enable gardening by the masses in confined spaces (though, naturally, if can be implemented in larger settings as well). Mr Bartholomew’s…
I was in Provo UT this week for Moab Con 2011. It was a great week – got to meet lots of interesting people, learn how different companies and institutions are using Adaptive’s Moab product, and see where the roadmap for the product should bring it over the next 1-2 years.
On 21 May I am presenting at the BGLUG meeting. The topic will be Haiku. I was an ardent BeOS fan/user for a while during their early Developer and Release days, and was among the saddest* to see them disappear as a company, and then even more saddened when Palm totally blew their chance to…