11/19
History of the AK-47 — Not my usual topic, but I came across a rather interesting article about the history of the famous (infamous) AK-47 machine gun. > “The AK-47 has succeeded so wildly because it is almost an ideal realization of the personal f...
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11/17
Tutorial on buying a telescope — Out of left (star) field. Here’s a succinct tutorial on buying a telescope that my friend Ben Gomes Casseresemailed me which I thought might be of general interest. You can see [Ben...
11/15
I don’t ‘get’ iTunes match — What I don’t get is the price. First I had to have bought the music (from Apple or someone else) and now I have to pay again ($24.95 per year) in order to make it all available over iCloud. I think I will stick with my new favorite, Spotify. I am sure I don’t fully understand the details, but it s...
11/14
Pogue does not love the new Kindle Fire — I was excited to hear about the Kindle Fire. But I was waiting to read some impartial reviews of one before running off and buying one. After all I am a big fan of the Kindle (gen 2) and enjoy reading books on Kindl...
11/12
Patents and perpetual motion machines — An interesting commentary on a couple of patents that issued from the US Patent Office: > “The US patent office no longer grants patents on perpetual motion machines, but has recently granted at least two patents on a mathematically impossible process: compressio...
11/11
When no response means “no” — Here’s a tiny social conundrum. When someone writes you, calls you and leave a message, calls and doesn’t, or even texts you, what is your obligation to respond? If the question is “are you free for lunch today” and you know you are not, is it OK to just not answer? If the question is “have you seen...
11/10
Make it matter — Chris Shipley of Guidewire Group has a great post bemoaning how entrepreneurs are driven to invest their time and energy and (other peoples’ money) on more and more vacuous projects: > “Indeed, the collective attention of young entrepreneurs seem...
11/09
Game Design: Tiled Game Boards — I’ve spent the last few weeks in dribs and drabs building a new game for Android. Lately I got deeper on what it means to have a ’tiled’ game space display where you construct the appearance of the game space by arranging a series of graphic images based on what’s needed for a certain level of the g...
11/08
Facebook – Group your Place on a List and Put it on A page … or something — I am a big fan of Facebook. They are doing so many things well. They have become so pervasive that if anyone is doing anything that involves a group of people online the first and biggest question should be, why should we not put this on Facebook? Because it works on so many levels.  on Android, sound effects files using the OGG format work better than those using wav or mp3. It might be an AndEngine thing, I am not sure. Anyway, here’s my result of half hour googling and experimenting for a reliable way to convert the files. I tried a bunch of things, and I finally settled on MediaHuman AudioConverter. Use it. It really works and is nice and simple.
10/05
My review of A Reliable Wife — 
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick My rating: 4 of 5 stars Odd book. In the end I really liked it but at first it takes a surprising set of turns and is not at all what you would think. The writing style is almost poetic which is what I think I enjoyed the most, View all my reviews
A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick My rating: 4 of 5 stars Odd book. In the end I really liked it but at first it takes a surprising set of turns and is not at all what you would think. The writing style is almost poetic which is what I think I enjoyed the most, View all my reviews