“Naps Can Seriously Improve All-Day Learning Abilities”
I never needed to be convinced of this, but it’s nice to know nonetheless.
Archive of posts filed under the Interests category.
Topics on my particular interests.
“Liquid glass will change your life, eliminate detergent profits”
Very intriguing. Unfortunately it sounds too good to be true, so it probably isn’t.
VMware Fusion and Windows Development
I’ve spent the last few days integrating my new math library into the Windows project I started coding it for. Yesterday morning I was ready to try running the integrated copy, but I had some kind of problem starting it up. I couldn’t track it down very easily though, due to how long it took …
“Note to Captain Kirk: Warp speed will kill you”
Well, duh! That’s what shields were invented for! 😉
“Hearing aid you wear on your tooth”
In one of the science fiction series that I used to read, the hero kept in constant contact with his robot companion through a surgically implanted microphone and earphone. This isn’t quite in that league, but it sounds like a solid piece of work. I have to wonder if it would work on denture-wearers, though. …
“Hands-on: D&D on the Microsoft Surface”
“Seriously, though, wouldn’t you have killed for this when you were 14?” I certainly would have. Sometimes I regret the inevitability of growing up (or at least older 😉 ). (Via LifeHacker’s “Remains of the Day” feature)
Attack of the Spambots?
Geek Drivel is suddenly ridiculously popular with would-be blog spammers. I’m told that my primary defenses have blocked more than 400 automated spam messages in the last week, and maybe a dozen have gotten past them — all caught by my secondary defenses, I’m happy to say. I’m not sure what prompted this sudden surge …
Taming MSVC’s Intellisense
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 (i.e. v8) is a decent compiler, with a decent IDE. But there’s one “feature” that I dislike passionately: Intellisense. The idea behind it is a good one: that the IDE scans your source code every so often and figures out how certain things will be compiled so that it can tell …
Amusing Spam
Spam messages are rarely amusing enough for me to post anymore, but this one takes the cake: Subject: Hegihten the qulaity of your ereictons with Soft (ialis. Biggest_bIowout_sale of \/aIium in our onIine pharmacy Sorry guys, but SpamBayes wasn’t fooled. You’ll have to do better than misspelled words and ASCII art to get past it.
Busy, Busy, Busy…
There was no entry yesterday because I was deep in a programming project. Very deep… I was up and at it at 8am, and other than a few very short breaks, kept going until 3am this morning. And that’s on top of about six hours on it the day before. Around 1995, I started writing …