Price tracking can be confusing online. Retailers like Amazon and Newegg (two that I buy from frequently) seem to sometimes change their prices daily. One expects prices to drop over time but this doesn’t always happen. I was surprised to … Read More
It’s 2010 everyone! It’s ridiculuous how fast 2009 went by. I have high hopes for the year. We’ll see how things go…
I seem to remember talking about this already but I’ve further upgraded my man-cave to new levels of geekiness. I know have two 26″ screens that I’ve wall mounted just above my desk (keeps them in the same position regardless … Read More
Google today announced that they’re providing a high-performance public DNS server. This sounds like a great idea from a performance perspective … I’ve not had too many complaints with my DNS servers provided by Comcast but I’ve definitely had some … Read More
I use Scuttle on my server (for storing bookmarks). The beauty of the solution is that I have a centralized repository of bookmarks (which isn’t too special considering that many services provide this feature) but in addition, it’s very nicely … Read More
It’s been a month again without any updates. I’m not good at this blogging thing. It’s difficult because I think I haven’t defined my purpose very clearly. From my second blog entry way back in January 2005, I said that … Read More
I was impressed today to see how easy it was to call a C++ DLL from Python. I got the following information from another site: 1. Create a file called dlltest.cpp and write a function that sums two numbers and … Read More
I just realized that I reinvented the wheel a month or so… I had a need for a nice templating language and although I did look for a solution that already existed, I didn’t look hard enough. Google CTemplate is … Read More