Reminds me a bit of Cryptonomicon, where our hero worked out how to spit his results out by having his...

Reminds me a bit of Cryptonomicon, where our hero worked out how to spit his results out by having his caps lock blink at him in morse code.

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I'm open for ideas. The cooler the better.

I'm open for ideas. The cooler the better.

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Wandered around the dollar store today. Was lead to believe I could find a mini tripod I could hack into...

Wandered around the dollar store today. Was lead to believe I could find a mini tripod I could hack into my desk-lamp -> webcam arm project, but was misinformed. Oh well. I know where to find such stuff online.



I did find a little light where the off switch is proximity to a little magnet. I figure, if it can run an LED, it can send a signal to an Arduino. I just need to figure out what to do with it.

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I don't have a real idea for a IOIO thing (Pronounced "yo-yo") but I think I should dream something up...

I don't have a real idea for a IOIO thing (Pronounced "yo-yo") but I think I should dream something up.

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"Why won't SSH work?" A very interesting story about debugging.

"Why won't SSH work?" A very interesting story about debugging.

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When I was in college for J-school, the student paper had an SE30 as the server. I loved that thing.

When I was in college for J-school, the student paper had an SE30 as the server. I loved that thing.

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I put the Canon Hacker's Development Kit on my PowerShot this AM, and this is a first-pass take on an...

I put the Canon Hacker's Development Kit on my PowerShot this AM, and this is a first-pass take on an HDR photo. Lesson learned: Tripod. Still, the spin is a bit of a trippy effect.

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Backhoes got the fiber. My home internet is down.

Backhoes got the fiber. My home internet is down.

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Saw this in my Quantified Self folder in Reader, where the author finds that a line from Aristotl...

Saw this in my Quantified Self folder in Reader, where the author finds that a line from Aristotle -- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- is not particularly useful, then comes to another position that references old-school Slashdot but also isn't that helpful.



1. Accept your beliefs about who you think you are now.

2. Accept your beliefs about who you want to be.

3. ???

4. Behavior change.



I just dropped below 240 lbs from 270 in February, and a good amount of time floating around 290 for a decade and hitting 330 or higher the decade before, and I can't really say what habits I have changed to account for that. Eating more often and avoiding diet cola are the two I can list most quickly.

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Ironically, years later, I have an HTC Evo and my wife has an iPhone 4.

Ironically, years later, I have an HTC Evo and my wife has an iPhone 4.

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Looks like a much simpler and easier-to-transfer circuit than the one we're using. Which saves me...

Looks like a much simpler and easier-to-transfer circuit than the one we're using. Which saves me (for now) the requirement to learn Eagle CAD....

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I just put VirtualBox on my laptop (again) and I'm wondering which Linux the world thinks I shoul...

I just put VirtualBox on my laptop (again) and I'm wondering which Linux the world thinks I should install. Used to be, my go-to would be Ubuntu, and I'm OK with Linux Mint but not too happy. I know some Fedora folks.



Thoughts? Arguments?

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I have a web app based on a static HTML page, where the table I'm filling is created statically. ...

I have a web app based on a static HTML page, where the table I'm filling is created statically. (Tabular data, folks. Not using tables for page layout anymore.) I've done a lot of work, and I used the hack of src="lib.js?reload" to keep the Javascript out of cache. But the page itself was cached, so the table had 7 THs in the header and 8 TDs in the row on a user's page. I had her Ctrl-Shift-R and fixed it.



Now I want everything to be dynamic, even when there's really little dynamic content on the page.

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