Archive for January, 2007
Someone sent me a link to this YouTube video of a touch driven computer interface. This is seriously the coolest interface ever. I love the 3d aspects of it, and the lack of any interface devices except the display screen. An interface like this is so much more intuitive than using a standard keyboard and [ READ MORE ]
Just started using LastFM. Yes, I know it’s been around for a while, but sometimes I’m a little slow on getting started with these things.Basically it’s a big music statistics gathering site. It gathers data on every song you play, and allows you to categorize and tag each song. It then can build a tailored [ READ MORE ]
Soviet Russia was a very strange place. Some of the things the government did were odd and really tacky. One of those things were the bus stops. From big birds, to miniature pagodas. The bus stops are just plain weird. Polar Inertia has a bunch of pictures of some of the more bizarre ones. Check [ READ MORE ]
Yesterday I started working on an old project that was put on hold about four months ago. At the time I worked on it, it was a big rush that had to be done “yesterday” So I pumped out a lot of code and worked a lot of overtime hours getting that code written. This [ READ MORE ]
Well today started off pretty good. I got up on time, brewed my first cup of coffee and enjoyed it all the way to work. Once I got to work things seemed to be going well. Everyone was back from vacation this week so things could get back to normal. I was even pleased to [ READ MORE ]
Tuesday I purchased the new Mvix MX-760HD media player from ThinkGeek. It’s supposed to arrive today. So I’m really looking forward to it. The device plays just about every media format you can think of. And it connects easily to any standard media playback device. It sounds really great. I’ll finally have a way to [ READ MORE ]
Came across this article “Seventy-seven things you need to know about 07″ Some very interesting facts about the number seven. I liked #11. The seventh son of a seventh son has magic powers, according to Irish folklore, but is a vampire in Romanian legend. Kind of ironic. Most of the facts in the news article can also be [ READ MORE ]
Wired has an interesting story about a researcher who is trying to decode the Incan writing system. It seems that the Incas didn’t invent a written language. Rather they kept records using knots and rope. These records were called Khipu. Unfortunately, with the Spanish conquest of the Incan empire, the knowledge of how to read [ READ MORE ]
