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Five Years - an engineer's perspective looking back

Back in 1994, a few of us at WRS had the pleasure of working with JPL on amission based on a radical new concept: using CommercialOff-The-Shell (COTS) products to build a planetary...

16 years 5 months ago

Twitter vs. Facebook

I’mlooking for some advice on microblogging etiquette and usage. I haveboth twitter and facebook accounts, but I haven’t figured out when Ishould use twitter vs. facebook status...

16 years 5 months ago

Tech Support for Geeks

Overthe holiday break, I waited on the phone 30 minutes to hear a techsupport person sing Celine Dion in my ear while telling me to reset mycable modem. Ok, let me back up a bit. I...

16 years 5 months ago

Zune 30, Killed by Complexity

I first heard of it early New Years Eve, I guess. Hoards of Microsoft Zunes were committing mass suicide(a gruesome thought but the actual quote from the Slashdot article).Fears...

16 years 5 months ago

Five Years

FiveYears. It doesn't seem like much. About 1/20th of a long human lifespan. 20 times 90 days. The amount of time it takes (roughly) frombirth until entering school/pre-school...

16 years 5 months ago

Predictions for 2009

I’m not usually one to make predictions. It’s hard for me to tell the difference between a prediction and wishful thinking. But this article over at the Inquirer(still the best...

16 years 5 months ago

A look at WebKit

A few days ago, I was playing with Google's V8 JavaScript VM library and got it compiling with MinGW in Wascana. I submitted the patch to make it work but I haven't heard back. I...

16 years 5 months ago

I’m addicted to information

Overthis lovely holiday break, I have decided to catch up on {everything}.Starting next year off with a clean to do list seems like a good idea.Before I left work for the holidays...

16 years 5 months ago

VirtualBox 2.1 and assorted Christmas Fun

Just some random thoughts on this Saturday after Christmas. My familyand I had a good Christmas, despite a little “Fun with Autism” momentwith my Autistic son, but it’s all better...

16 years 5 months ago

I could have had a V8, oh wait, I do

I've always been intrigued by programming languages and what makes themtick, and what is the best one for what situation. That's why DaveThomas's keynote at ESE still has me...

16 years 5 months ago