Archive for the 'computers' Category

PHP anthem

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

IM from a friend:
See ya.
Oh, by the way in OS X shell:
say -v Good oh PHP ow ow oh PHP ow oh PHP ow ow oh PHP ow oh PHP ow ow oh PHP ow oh PHP ow ow oh PHP ouchie
for PHP anthem.
ROFL
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Family tech support

Friday, May 30th, 2008

I’m preparing a list of things to do tomorrow, when it occurs to me:
I wonder if Larry or Sergei ever have to fix their family members’ computers?
If so, that’s got to be the World’s Most Expensive Tech Support.
I wonder how many six(or more)-figure-salary software engineers weekend as the family Geek Squad?
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GPS everywhere and in everything

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

My computer has a GPS in it using the same SIRFstar III chipset as my hiking handheld, which also doubles as my cycling GPS.
On the Mac, it appears as a “USB-serial” device whose driver is made by Prolific Technology which, coincidentally, makes the driver for my camera GPS receiver. Like all SIRFstar III GPSs, getting [...]

Planning your Macs

Monday, April 7th, 2008

My Uncle is soon to be without his laptop and desktop. An in our family, this means a Macintosh…with Skype installed. And this means, bouncing ideas off the family Mac geek: me.
Here were his ideas:

Idea 1:
Get 1 desktop and 1 laptop. For desktop, I am thinking of iMac rather than a Power Mac (which may [...]

Computers don’t cry

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

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Analog blog 2

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

I blame Merlin Mann of 43 folders. He’s the one who popularized Moleskines years ago.
How else can I explain that right after I wrote about my analog blog that Brian Moon pointed me to the very next xkcd about that. Which caused my friends to point out the sequel article:

Journal 2 by xkcd

Which gave me [...]

The open office

Friday, October 12th, 2007

See our open offices with free food, beer, and t-shirts at Lunch 2.0 today!
Photos of my workstation are like photos of “What’s in my bag”—they seem to draw a voyeur-like fascination just short of a shot of a pretty girl.
Well since we recently tore down the cubes, I finally set up my workstation. You can [...]

Apple makes piracy “just work”

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

A conversation that never happened over iChat:
1: Hey, do you have a copy of the new iLife and iWork?
2: Yeah. How can I get it to you.
1: Let me get back to you…
1: Hey, my my iDisk has 10GB on it now, just put it there.

(more…)
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Perfect Ringing (This iPhone)

Tuesday, July 24th, 2007

At work today Mark Kater and Sarah were joking that I’ve been as sick as long as I’ve had my iPhone. I guess my iPhone has bad Feng Shui.
Then Mark mentioned that the song in the iPhone television commercials, gives him the classically Apple 38 seconds of “all is good in the world” before he [...]

The iPhone

Saturday, June 23rd, 2007

I was talking to Dru about that today. He said he’s not worried. “Apple says it’ll be fine as long as you go to a Cingular store and not Apple Store on the day of launch.”

Web 2.0 Lunch
Chinatown, San Francisco, California
Nikon D200, Tokina AT-X PRO 16-50mm f/2.8 DX
1/640sec @ f/2.8, iso100, 16mm (24mm)

“Maybe in podunkville. [...]