Here’s something I didn’t know until recently: Pharmaceutical companies rely heavily on horseshoe crab blood to ensure that their products are bacteria free. Here’s some other interesting things I learned: 1) Their blood is pale yellow or white and turns … Read More
Well, the high-def video format war is over. Blu-ray is the winner. With Toshiba and now Microsoft pulling out from supporting HD-DVD, we can finally feel at ease buying a video player. Interestingly, the DAY of the announcement from Toshiba … Read More
Well, my wife is thinking about starting up a business… There’s definitely a market and the concept makes sense to me. In the past, she had sold craft items (specifically faux sealing wax) but had been somewhat limited since she … Read More
Hmm… well this is kind of a blow for the security departments that have been relying on this. My “work” (notice the parentheses) laptop has whole disk encryption and it’s terrible. For some reason it usually (like 4 out of … Read More
I like the idea of widgets in OS X and the way Dashboard works. However, other than the calculator I don’t find myself using them very much. But I finally found a Dashboard widget that really is handy. It’s a … Read More
I’ve been looking for a multi-function (print, scan, copy, fax) printer for the last few months. I’ve been really disappointed with what I’ve found. What I want to be able to do is the following: Print documents from any modern … Read More
I rarely quote things verbatim from elsewhere on the Internet but I found a comment in one of this morning’s Slashdot posts quite amusing… Recently one of my friends, a computer wizard, paid me a visit. As we were talking … Read More
There have been a few Slashdot submissions here and here. They’re concerned with an article published by two professors from NYU that assert that Java (and similar high-level languages) are damaging to teach as the “first language” of a Computer … Read More
Ruby on Rails is such a beautiful thing… Here’s some view (presentation) code that I slapped together in about 2 minutes: <% Category.find(:all).each { |category| %> <div id=<%= category.cssid %>> <h2><%= category.Name %></h2> <ul> <% category.items.find(:all).each { |item| %> <li><%= … Read More