Category Archives: General

I tried out Google Earth today. Overall, I’m not that impressed. Its probably because I tried out Keyhole about 3 years ago after seeing it at an Nvidia shareholder meeting. The app today vs. then is not that different. For … Continue reading →

Sun just released their Ultra 20 workstation. If I ever needed a ‘it must work, no questions asked’ kind of Unix box, this could be it.

Every programmer I know doesn’t like this name for XMLHttpRequest style programming. Can we come up with a new name already?

When I got in the car this morning, right as I turned on the ignition I was greeted to the sounds of Dressy Bessy. Good ole NPR was doing a review of their new album Electrified on Fresh Air. The … Continue reading →

Although I was thinking this would be at least 2-3 years out, my mind has changed. Today Nvidia released a new graphics card, the 7800 series. It’s basically a good rev of the 6800 architecture. Overall the price is a … Continue reading →

The other day I wanted to contact a fairly famous person because of an article they wrote. What is cool about the internet as opposed to 10 years ago (holy crap, this is sounding old)… is that you can actually … Continue reading →

Saw the old Star Wars on the widescreen last night with the boy. Wow, still a great old movie. He loved it and I enjoyed it from the adult perspective. I saw it a while back, but I really wasn’t … Continue reading →

I was playing with some old Apple ][ disk images today. I have a mental image in my mind of what it used to take in order to download an image over a modem, compressed!, back in the old days. … Continue reading →