If you want to know why I've been MIA from this blog, Dakim has something to do with it.
I've been with Dakim full-time since August 15. We're making touchscreen devices to help mentally stimulate people with Alzheimer's Disease. There's much about this I can't talk about on the blog …
I'm concerned about Apple's move from PowerPC chips to Intel chips for their processors.
Geekable says "The Apple-Intel announcement makes me feel very uneasy. My first problem with the whole affair is that Apple will now be considered a generic PC vendor." As far as I can say, who cares …
There's an excellent article at DrunkenBlog showing a damning pile of evidence that the commercial product CherryOS contains stolen code from the PearPC project and a number of other open-source projects. (Ed. note: Broken links in the previous sentence have been removed.) What's more, their marketing claims appear to differ …
First of all, I have to say that WordPress rocks. I've gone through just about every blogging / CMS / Wiki / whatever-based tool out there, and WordPress is absolutely the best I've seen.
I do have some reservations, of course. Future-dated posts should show up on the Dashboard in chronological order by …
In my professional capacity as head geek at a mid-sized small business in Los Angeles, I deal with a lot of bad tech support. A lot. I've seen the excellent (Xerox), the good (HP Large Format Printer Support), and the incredibly bad (HP Consumer Printer Support).
Technically speaking, I'm still …
Del.icio.us is a hip, cutting-edge bookmark-handling service. It lets you share bookmarks with other people in a number of ways that are much more powerful than they appear at first. It's elegant and easy to use.
I never use it. I use Furl.net instead, a service that …
I'm working full-time now as head geek at a large photo lab in Los Angeles. We've been burning customer files to CD and DVD, then handwriting customer information on the disk with Sharpies. This seems pretty unprofessional to me, so one of my first moves was to find some better …
Learning about Linux really is a constant series of cool discoveries. I've just discovered Kernel Traffic (KT). KT is a condensed version of several mailing lists covering Linux development. There are more then 3000 messages a week; reading all the traffic on all the lists would be a full-time job …
As a computer consultant, I call tech support hotlines for a number of different commercial software and hardware products; almost universally the level of support is execrable. After waiting on hold for too long, I speak with a person who knows less than I do about the product they are …
As a guy who gets paid only because of his computer knowledge, the following paragraph is a bit of a comfort to me:
One of the many consequences of the exponential power-versus-time curve in computing, and the corresponding pace of software development, is that 50% of what one knows becomes …