12.11.09 - 01:53pm
I use a Comcast cable modem at home… I’ve been satisfied with the service; it’s fast enough for my needs and is generally dependable (brief glitches happen once in a while, which quickly fix themselves). However, for the past two days my modem wasn’t able to connect at all, so for the first time I [...]
10.13.08 - 03:10pm
Fred and Borris both recently blogged about intelligent image resizing. This previously came up about a year ago, probably when this research video started making the rounds:
It’s cool stuff, although I’m a little doubtful about it working well for general web content. It would be a fun experiment, though!
Also in the news today is this [...]
10.08.08 - 09:16pm
A month or two ago this stupid little icon showed up on my menu bar. I found it kind of amusing (in a sad kind of way) because it appeared out of the blue, without my having approved anything, and the dropdown menu had a bunch of redundant items that were all variations of “you [...]
08.04.08 - 12:57pm
From the Washington Post:
The “small world theory,” embodied in the old saw that there are just “six degrees of separation” between any two strangers on Earth, has been largely corroborated by a massive study of electronic communication.
With records of 30 billion electronic conversations among 180 million people from around the world, researchers have concluded that [...]
05.26.08 - 01:43pm
NASA’s Mars Phoenix spacecraft has landed, without disaster, and the first pics are in. Huzzah!
But what I found most stunning was this picture:
That’s a shot of Phoenix dangling under it’s parachute (mid-air, during landing), taken by another spacecraft (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) from orbit. Wow.
Trivia: Something similar was done in 2005, when MGS took pictures of [...]
05.16.08 - 11:17pm
Today we launched the first Release Candidate of Firefox 3 (yay!). 7 days from now, NASA will be landing a spacecraft on Mars. I thought it might be interesting to compare the two…
The browser
The spacecraft
Original name:
Phoenix
Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander
Current name:
Firefox
Phoenix
Mission:
Make kick-ass software, promote the open web
Study water, soil, weather at northern polar region of Mars
Cost:
Free!
$420 [...]
05.13.08 - 02:50pm
Dear Sprint…
I hear you’ve had a rough time of it lately. Losing 1.1 million customers and $505 million last quarter? Ouch. I’d really love to help you out. Drop me a line when you have a billing system that will actually take my money! (I believe you already have my number.)
04.27.08 - 06:37pm
I finally got around to upgrading to new cell phone and plan. Sprint, Samsung M520, SERO plan — nothing fancy. The phone isn’t even quite as awful as I had been expecting.
But, as suspected, adding on a Phone-As-Modem (PAM) data plan (to enable internet access from my laptop and N810) was a nightmare. In [...]
04.25.08 - 12:40am
Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” came out today (*checks clock* err, yesterday) — congrads to the Ubuntu community on the release! I just finished installing it under VMWare Fusion on my MacBook, and will upgrade my home and work Ubuntu desktops this weekend.
Installation was painless. I didn’t even need to edit xorg.conf and specify my monitor’s [...]
03.22.08 - 10:02pm
I’ve been shopping around for a new cell phone and plan. My first attempt was about a year ago, after moving to the Bay area, but I gave up in despair. I had been hoping that the success of the iPhone would help improve things, but after looking around again I remain throughly disgusted at [...]
