So I have a buddy who is a gadget geek. He got a Sony Clie when they arrived on the scene, he has an iPod or two (or three maybe), one of which does photos. His Clie takes pictures. He got one of the new latest cameras that fit in your pocket and is 5…
Berners-Lee Talks Semantic Web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the person who invented the world wide web, as well as some of the technologies that make it work. That was years ago, and yet a surprisingly large amount of technology that the web runs on is still in wide use today. See that "http://" up in your address bar? That's…
My yearly Konqueror Browser Test
Well, I’m just trying out using the konqueror browser with blogger to see if it works. Looks like it doesn’t. Even when I tell my browser to identify itself as mozilla it breaks. Some stuff works (I can write a post, for example), but I can only get the source view of things — so…
My First Sudoku Puzzle
I have a Sudoku game on my Linux workstation at home, and I just finished my first sudoku puzzle. I’m not sure I really see the addiction, but maybe I’ll revisit that in a few weeks. I solved puzzle #36 in GNOME Sudoku in 26 minutes and 24 seconds. I have no idea if that’s…
All of my jobs
Over dinner last weekend, my neighbor pointed out to me that he’s pretty sure I’ve had more jobs than anyone else on the planet, or something to that affect. I’ve heard that before, but the emphatic words of my neighbor inspired me to list all of the jobs I can remember having. Here goes nothin’……
E85 Ethanol: Uncertain at best
I don’t own, and have never seen (to my knowledge) an E85-capable vehicle. The pitch that’s being made to the American public by the likes of GM lately is that E85 is an alternative fuel source that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil, provide more horsepower and torque (because E85 is higher octane than…
Growing Affinity for Hand Tools
I bought some kind of special edition magazine about using hand tools in the shop. As usual, I read it cover-to-cover in about an hour, and I’ve a few articles over since then. I also purchased a really cool book called “Choosing & Using Hand Tools”, which just completely rocked my world. I also have…
Yet another blog service
This is my first post in my WordPress blog. I signed up at wordpress.com and got one. My first blog was at blogspot.com, which is run by blogger.com. That was my first taste of blogging, and it took me a long time to get used to the idea of jotting down my thoughts on occasion….
Moodle Course Management: Extending the Moodle base
That’s one of my current projects at work. We were using a home-grown course management solution in the Computer Science department, because the faculty here (and elsewhere, I hear) aren’t fond of Blackboard, and they also know that there’s a good bit of in-house PHP knowledge, so we built our own at first. Unfortunately, they…
First LUG meeting I’ve been to in years
Well, the title isn’t 100% true: I went to a couple of LUG meetings for the University where I work, but you don’t get the same kind of diversity in applications that you do when you just walk into a public meeting at the local library. At the university, there’s diversity in terms of department:…