Archives for Category: Geekery

Another Reason Why I Like Pinboard

October 3, 2011

I’m a big fan of the bookmarking site Pinboard and I often peruse the ‘popular’ page to see what links other folks are squirreling away. I would venture that a majority of Pinboard users lean towards the nerdy/web developer type, until recently that is. The Pinboard developers explain why in

Maybe One of These Was Copland?

January 19, 2011

As I’ve watched countless movies and TV shows over the years, when some character sits down at a computer and furiously types away to access the all-knowing database, crack a computer network in 6.9 seconds, or zooms a digital image eleventy billion percent and then hits the magic “unpixelate” button,

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 fiddled

My Current Desktop

May 4, 2010

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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: IOGraph

How 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 standard

Site 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 the

Customizing 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 post

Digital 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 could

Want 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