My friend Mike and I made it to Sandusky, OH for CodeMash 2008 this afternoon. The only event scheduled for today was a panel discussion in the evening on “Talking Technology to Humans.” It was alright, if not exactly a topic that held my interest too much. Mike and I decided to try making some [...]
Opening Night Panel, originally uploaded by Neo0ptik.
Pretty Emacs ReloadedA nice Emacs package for Ubuntu that provides support for antialiased fonts.(tags: emacs ubuntu font weblog )
I have friends who love Obama. Heck, I like the guy. He certainly gives eloquent speeches, but as this fantastic essay points out, his stump speech strategy is exactly the opposite of what we need in this country.
Patrick Smith, of Salon’s Ask the Pilot fame, has posted an eloquent essay on the New York Times Jet Lagged blog about the inanity of airport “security”. It sounds like he has been reading Bruce Schneier. Refuse to be Terrorized!
While working on an implemention of the iTunes U. authentication algorithm in C#, I came upon a few major gotchas that I thought would be useful to share. I ported the Java implementation that is a part of the example code(zip) package downloadable from the iTunes U. support site.
I like C#. While I prefer languages like Perl and Python, I have to admit that C# is pretty cool. And, with Mono, I could even write nice, happy, FLOSS apps in it, if I like. But, I hate ASP.NET. I am forced to use this abominable framework at work and today I was once [...]