Category: Technology
Life would be so dull and sad without the soft, gleaming red glow of the power button, and the high-frequency hum of a switching power supply.
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Bearable wearable
I’ve always loved following tech. The emergence of the wearables market has been a fascinating one: a convergence of small form factor, low power, and high performance electronics. In particular, this market really couldn’t have happened without the smartphone industry blazing the trail, since wearables leverage multiple technologies like touch screens, accelerometers, compasses, and wireless interfaces. And…
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From iOS to Android, part 1
You read that right. I’ve made the switch. Got rid of my iPhone(s) and careened over into Android territory. And so far, the grass is still pretty green over here.
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Before there was Netflix…
“… the world was without form. And it was not good.” For the past 6 months, I’m not entirely sure how we could have survived without Netflix. I’m aware that I tend to overstate many things and this is no exception. But humor me.
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The STEM gap
There’s a great info-graphic and article on Adecco, concerning the widening gap between available Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) candidates and those job vacancies waiting to be filled. I have much to be thankful for this year. In particular, I have Adecco to thank for placing me at a great, international science-based company —…
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Function pointers
Here’s a great quote by John Bass on an EDN article about function pointers as an implementation of state machine design: Failure complexity is a metric of a design. http://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/embedded-basics/4406821/Function-pointers—Part-3–State-machines
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OS X Mountain Lion
So I finally got around to updating my iMac from Lion to Mountain Lion last night. Wow, I am pleasantly surprised! For the past year, this was a regular occurrence: systemic memory rot. https://twitter.com/ElectroLund/status/221733275373289474 It was ridiculous. I felt like I was using a Windows machine. No offense, 95% of the world. But seriously, it…
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Automagically create annual month folders
On my computer, I’m in the habit of using lots of subfolders for my organization of reports and other output I generate from my financial software. I prefer to use a structure of month names inside the for the year, with forced chronological order. For instance: So I wrote an Automator script to do this…
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Bundle this!
Is it just me, or have cable and phone companies resorted to bundle-only pricing incentives?
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Xenon Project RC helicopter review
I was recently contacted by Jeff Chan over at Xenon Project, an RC hobbyist retailer. At first, I figured the email was bogus, as I get quite a few of them on a regular basis. So I was quite thrilled to discover that Jeff is indeed the real thing, and his company far from bogus.…
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Monkey Poets and Integer Pointers
I have a confession to make. A rather big one. The kind of character-shattering revelation that might cause you to change your mind about me.