Peter pointed me to CHDK, a firmware enhancement for Canon cameras, including my trusty rusty SD630. CHDK lets you hack your camera’s software to make it do a bunch of stuff that the built-in software doesn’t let you do. It’s not as scary as it sounds. You just need to put the new software on […]
It used to be that forking the code was interpreted as a failure in leadership. Forking would split the code, community, and users into competing factions and generally make life more confusing for everyone (see XEmacs).
In the world of distributed revision control systems like Git, forking means something different. These systems were designed […]
I was sending someone directions to my office, and I noticed that the placemark that Google Maps puts on the map of the office address is more accurate. It used to be nearby on Route 9, but is now exactly on my building.
Back in November 2007, Google introduced a feature to allow editing of […]
I’m on the design team for MATLAB Central, the MathWorks online community. Whenever we solicit feedback, we always hear from a user "joking" about adding a dating service.
True to form, it wasn’t long after I created the MATLAB fan page on Facebook for similar comments to start showing up on MATLAB’s wall. An […]
Not bad, eh?
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Look carefully at the Wikipedia page on Linda Hamilton. Notice anything strange about the photo? Yes, that is my friend Peter who has his arm around her. Though I am an occasional Wikipdia contributor, I had nothing to do with this. Peter is thrilled to be in this position and calls […]
While walking by Fenway Park last night around 11PM, I saw a stream of sparks raining down from somewhere up on the scaffolding. It was cool, in an industrial sort of way. As it turns out, also dangerous.
I saw this news item on Boston.com. I don’t visit that site regularly, but I […]
IKEA’s America at Home campaign features a sequence of non-traditional images of "home", starting with an Airstream trailer.
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This is a repost of a video that first appeared on this site in December 2002. My camera recorded the video to QuickTime format, which made it tough for some people to play. Between then and now, YouTube happened. You may have heard of it. So here it is again, this […]
Amazon remembers every order you ever placed. My first order was on March 3, 2000. Here’s what it contained:
Red Mars, by Kim Stanley Robinson
The Hedgehog and the Fox : An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History, by Isaiah Berlin
Cocktail : The Drinks Bible for the 21st Century, by Paul Harrington, Laura Moorhead
I liked […]
Since last September, I’ve been living in my 2005 25′ International CCD. I couldn’t find much information about how they perform in the cold, but its been relatively painless despite the occasional blizzard. I did have a snag about a month ago. Here is what I posted to The Airstream Knowledge Sharing […]