“One-eyed man creates prosthetic ‘surveillance’ eye”
I don’t think this will go down well with Representative Pete King, though there are at least a few fans of eighties cyberpunk novels who might love it.
Archive of entries posted by Head Geek
Motivation
A friend and associate, who recently started a potentially-commercial programming project of his own, asked me an interesting question the other day: […] Do you ever find you get discouraged when you try to code something and it doesn’t work, so you try a different way and it still doesn’t work? I’m finding I’m less …
Graffiti Quote
Just saw a wonderfully-quotable phrase in an old Paul Graham essay: Graffiti happens at the intersection of ambition and incompetence: people want to make their mark on the world, but have no other way to do it than literally making a mark on the world.
“Unauthorized iPhone app stores emerging”
It’ll be interesting to see how Apple responds to this. My bet: they’ll come out with lawyers a-blazin’. 😉 Though whether they have a legal leg to stand on or not is another story.
“Storage breakthrough could bust density record”
I can’t add much to this article, other than to say that whoever picked the URL it’s under had the right idea.
“The ‘Broken Windows’ Theory of Crimefighting”
I’ve always heard that crime causes run-down neighborhoods, but it appears that, at least in part, it works the other way too.
Test-Driven Development
In my recent side-project, Cpp-Markdown, I used a testing suite (developed by the author of another Markdown translator) as a guide to see what I needed to work on next, and to immediately show me when I broke something. It was a very nice way to write code… I could always see progress, and I …
“Square Root Day revelers to party like it’s 3/3/09”
It seems that I missed an excuse for a party yesterday.
“SheevaPlug: A $99 Linux PC Crammed Inside a Wall Plug”
Un-freakin’-believable. This is one of those things that I just have to shake my head at in wonder.
“Belt-Clip Your Cellphone for Better Battery Life”
That and several other interesting “low-tech fixes for high-tech problems,” like getting more ink out of inkjet-printer cartridges.