Archives for Category: Geekery
Geekery Updates
July 7, 2010
Some gadget thoughts and updates since it has been a while: First, while I think the Apple iPad is a cool device, I don’t really need one. I don’t downright scoff it it like I did the iPhone (umm, this crow tastes yummy) and I readily admit that I fiddledMy Current Desktop
May 4, 2010
Click to see full screen on Flickr.Tracks of My Tinkering
April 19, 2010
Anatoly Zenkov came up with neat little widget that draws a map of where your mouse travels over the screen. Larger dots = dormant mouse. Click for full size. Get it here: IOGraphHow Long is One Meter?
September 1, 2009
One area I have always found interesting is the standardization of measurements; that locked in a vault somewhere there was some piece of metal—probably some rare alloy in a vacuum or at some specific temperature—that was exactly twelve inches long or weighed precisely one pound, and these were the standardSite Updates
August 23, 2009
As I continue to dust off some of the rust around here, I changed the fonts served up by the stylesheet. Previously, the main typeface used was Lucida Grande and Trebuchet for Mac OS X and Windows users, respectively. For a bit of contrast and because I like old-style figures,Mea Culpa
August 11, 2009
In the past, I have scoffed Facebook and been proven correct. And I have railed against iPhone hype…and been wrong. I finally broke down and joined the rest of the lemmings and picked up an iPhone 3G S, on launch day no less. I was sort of intrigued by theCustomizing the Movable Type Bookmarklet
April 6, 2008
The Elsewhere mini-blog howyadoin’ over in the sidebar is actually a separate blog in my Movable Type installation. I use the Multiblog plugin to pull the 15 most recent posts and display them here. A cool feature is Multiblog’s ability to set triggers so that when a new Elsewhere postDigital Photography Update
March 15, 2008
Although I don’t look forward to doing anything about it (see below), one area of this site that needs some tweaking is the photos section. Currently, the photos page is a separate blog with templates created by Doug Bowman of StopDesign. What I liked about these templates is I couldWant GMail?
October 17, 2004
Here’s a blatant attempt to win back some readers with some outright bribery: I have six gmail accounts to give away. I can’t recommend it enough, especially if you are a Hotmail or Yahoo mail user. The interface is clean, fast and its handling of threaded messages is top-notch. First