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09/20 Baseball rules — I guess it’s the time of year, but I came across this site for Baseball umpires which is a fun entertainment if you are into the esoterica of Baseball. For the more obvious (seemingly) questions that still stump me, Wikipedia is a good resource. For example, do you think you know what a balk is? Or what a cutter is? Technorati Tags: baseball
09/17 ID: Part Deux — If you are interested in the Intelligent Design debate, this is an fascinating and somewhat surprising article about a survey done by the Pew Research Center for the People. As usual with this kind of thing it is useful to *know the bias...
09/15 Making it sound better — Ever notice in restaurant menus how the dish descriptions are made to sound fancier and fancier by adding adjective? “green beans” are not as good as “fresh green-beans”, which are not as good as “native fresh green-beans”, which are not as good as: “hand-picked native fresh green-beans”, which are...
09/15 [GEEK] JDemo: Java Demonstration Framework — This is pretty cool: a framework to easily manage the demonstration of UI elements, inspired by JUnit. Here’s what they say: > “As supplement to test driven software development, JDemo provides a new approach of demo driven development: When developing software, you write short code snippets (demo cases) that use your new API. The demo then demonstrates both: how to use the API and what happens when you execute the code. So you can for example interactively test the usability of GUI components.” (from JDemo web site) Pretty cool. Check it out! Technorati Tags: cooltool
09/13 TiVo whining? — I’ve come across a flurry of commentary on the fact that apparently TiVo has added content protection allowing a broadcaster to protect any program as it is broadcast. The result of this is: > “[A program] recorded with a red-flag next to it (an icon I’ve never seen before).  When I selected the ep...
09/13 Funny: Banana Problem — This is from a dictionary: > Banana problem: noun > A situation of uncertainty about when a task is complete and therefore when to stop working on it > The term banana problem is often used in computing when talking about badly written or incorrect conditions for the termination of a comput...
09/11 [QUASI-GEEK]A trip to the market — Do you follow Ben Hyde’s blog? I recommend it – he has always fascinating intellectual tours-de-force. I guess it was a slow day in the Hyde office when there were no world-changing problems to be addressed, so check out this analysis of what it costs you to use  your car. Interesting, relevant in today’s $3.00+ per gallon world,  and (intentionally?) funny too! (And someday I will be able to parse the sentence “Ascription is Anathema to any Enthusiasm 🙂 Technorati Tags: funny, gasoline
09/09 Mystery Ball — Yesterday, this appeared on my Mac desktop: Picture 2-5 Here’s a little movie showing you what it does. [http://s3.media.squarespace.com/production/1075723/1282935...
09/06 Cellphone GPS: How does it work? — My new cellphone supposedly has GPS capabilities. It has to do, apparently with the new E-911 standard, which requires a cell phone to be able to tell emergency responders where a cell call is coming from. I’m a pretty big GPS aficionado and I though...
09/01 New Orleans — I’ve been away for several days, while following the catastrophe in the gulf unfolding, via TV and radio. I (yes oddly) didn’t have internet access but thought to myself that there would be lots of very interesting blog posts covering the events from a unique angle. And indeed, now that I came acros...
08/25 [GEEK} Good article about pluggable LAFs in Java — One of the hairier and most interesting parts of Swing (Java’s GUI layer) are the so-called pluggable look and feels (or is it looks and feel?.) Truth is that you can live a very happy Swing life without knowing how it works, but if you are curious or need to know for some reason…  This document is a good summary, even though a little dated, if you are interested in really understanding it. Like many things it’s not so complex once you understand it. Technorati Tags: java, swing
08/24 Incogruous — Florida-202 Originally uploaded by claesk. Space shuttle in a parking lot. Funny. p.s. I found this with a BlogBridge SmartFeed on Flickr pictures about “shuttle” and I blogged it directly from Flickr’s blogging interface. Cool!