This week is the infamous Plane on a Treadmill episode of Mythbusters!
I’m so looking forward to this one. I see in the pics Adam is playing with a RC plane - I can’t wait to see how their experiment goes. I REALLY need to get my plane back together [...]
Category Archives: Life
Free Software
January 25, 2008 – 11:09 am
Today reading John Resig’s post about Open Source Release Syncing I thought there were some good bits in there about WHY people support open source software, especially this quote (I added the bold emphasis):
At the jQuery project I’ve generally split our time indiscriminately but with a sleight bias towards Free Software. By biasing towards Free [...]
Programming For Kids - New DZone Site
January 24, 2008 – 11:38 am
Checkout the new Kids Zone on DZone!
I just posted my first article there titled “Getting Started - Kid Friendly Programming Software“
If you are interested in helping your kids learn programming skills check it out - and even better - contribute something so we can all learn together!
Developer Toolbox - Text Editor
January 11, 2008 – 9:59 am
Like a trusty six shooter, every developer needs a good text editor in their toolbox.
For heavy lifting it’s great to wheel out the IDE (CFEclipse, Dreamweaver, etc) but for those quick edits using an IDE can seem like overkill. A simple text editor is lightweight and designed for doing one thing well - [...]
The Quiet Zone
January 2, 2008 – 2:30 pm
This summer my riding buddy Tom and I headed out to Virginia for a few days of back roads motorcycling. One of our destinations was the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s Green Bank Telescope. It was a VERY cool place to visit.
Tom was channel surfing a few days ago and saw this [...]
WebKinz - How Not To Cater To The Geek Parent
December 31, 2007 – 4:12 pm
This is a follow up post to one at Ben Forta’s blog: WebKinz - How NOT To Cater To The Young.
Both my kids got WebKinz for Christmas. They also got a new computer which I discuss here.
When we finally found some time to ‘register’ the Webkinz I found out where all the old [...]
Happy Holidays!
December 24, 2007 – 2:36 pm
Happy Holidays to my 3 readers! Hope you have a great holiday! See you for more geeky goodness in 2008!
I just saw on Andy Jarret’s blog that Norad has teamed up with Google this year to provide Santa tracking!! I’ve blogged about the slow Norad site before but hopefully this year [...]
Cheap PC Review - gOS
December 22, 2007 – 10:50 pm
My kid’s PC is REALLY old. I decided for Xmas I’d get them a new PC and ordered one of the $199 Wal-Mart Linux PCs.
Tonight I started to tinker with it in preparation of sticking it under the tree. The hardware seems decent. The OS it ships with ‘gOS‘ is not [...]