“Clippy Brings Copy/Paste to Jailbroken iPhones (Everywhere Except Safari)”
A nice piece of work. I installed it yesterday, and I’ve used it a few times now. It works as advertised, plugging a gaping hole in my iPod Touch’s features.
Archive of posts filed under the Interests category.
Topics on my particular interests.
Knowing Your Code
I’ve often been criticized for “reinventing the wheel” in my programming — creating my own programming components instead of using pre-written ones. Part of that was a deep-seated distrust of the competency of other programmers (something I learned early), and part of it was the fun of doing it myself. But reading some of the …
“TIOBE Programming Community Index”
I just discovered this page. It gives an interesting overview of how popular various programming languages are at present, and some long-term trends. Nice to see that my C and C++ skills are still highly employable.
“Tom’s Twelve Laws of Life”
As mentioned before, I love a good self-help book. I’ve read dozens of them, maybe hundreds. I’ve learned a lot about life and how best to live it, but I’m not very good at articulating it. This fellow managed to fit the most important parts onto a single page, and he’s gotten pretty much everything …
Spammity spam, spammity spam…
Geek Drivel has been getting a steady stream of comment spam almost since its inception, but it has really been bombarded with it over the last week or so. Spam Karma 2 does an excellent job of filtering them — in a year and a half, I can count the ones that have gotten through …
“Tron sequel already in production”
It’s about freakin’ time!
“Princeton Scientists Discover Proteins that Control Evolution”
I’ve always been a big proponent of the theory of evolution. It’s certainly not perfect, but it’s the only answer that doesn’t rely on supernatural forces to explain life. But in all the debates about it, it seems that those opposing it focus on two things: irrational religious convictions, and that it relies on random …
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Doing What You Love
It’s hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head. — Sally Kempton It’s hardly a secret to anyone who knows me, but I have a confession to make to the rest of the world: I am addicted to developing software. As GoddessJ can attest, if I don’t do some kind of development …
Congratulations, President-Elect Obama…
…now all you have to do is fix the economy, win the war on terrorism, and part the Red Sea, and you might just be remembered as something more than the first African-American US President. Good luck. I suspect you’re going to need it.
Vote! Even if it means choosing “between the Antichrist…
…and the only guy that scares the piss out of the Antichrist.” (With thanks to today’s Dilbert Blog entry.)