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.
Category Archives: Technology
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.
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 — …
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
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. Wow, what in the world is up with #FireFox on OS X? Here's a screenshot of it chewing up 0.8GB! iPhoto cant …
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: \Bills\subfolder1 \Bills\subfolder2 So I wrote an Automator script …
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Bundle this!
Is it just me, or have cable and phone companies resorted to bundle-only pricing incentives?
Xenon Project RC helicopter review
[stextbox id=’info’ color=’ffffff’ bgcolor=’0004ff’ bgcolorto=’0004ff’]The following is a sponsored product post[/stextbox] 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 …
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.