PenguinSix

Eventhough it is MSoft, this isn’t a bad view of where we are heading with information retrieval and display.  I’ll have a longer post up soon on my thoughts in this space.

This is mega cool, but I’m sure big companies will probably ruin the actual rollout in one way or another.

WTF? Where have I been? Oh yea, that’s right, I’m a parent now with no time for anything. But while poking around the app store I realized that EA has pushed FIFA ’11 onto the iPad. FIFA ’96 was a hidden joy I discovered back in law school and now the fact I can start [...]

“Shopping is the National Sport” of Hong Kong, so the joke often goes. But after purchasing items in Hong Kong and the US, you have to ask if this is the national sport, why is it done so badly here in Hong Kong? The actual process of purchasing an item, say an iPod, here in [...]

Google is offering a “Person Finder” solution for websites to help folks stay in touch with those who are missing in the Haitian earthquake disaster. This simple code allows you to have a I’m am Lost I am Found kind of solution to any website (though it is acting up a bit at the moment). [...]

Watching one of many touching stories out of Haiti today.  A five-year-old boy was found trapped in a building days after the earthquake. Al Jazeera English cameras were on the scene when it happened.

Time to take the plunge. The price has dropped and I get a free wifi card for my camera so what the heck. UPDATE:  After a day of hell, the Drobo has worked flawlessly for me (hint: never plug it in to the front Firewire ports as there is not enough power there.  It must [...]

Bring me food, stat! I’m going to plop down on the couch and watch Netflix streams until they boot me off the network.

“She’s coming in on the 12:30 bus to Chinatown” the wife said. “Ok, where does it drop off?” I reply. “I don’t know. Look it up”. “There are like 5 different Chinatown buses with 5 different stops.” “I’ll find out the name of the bus, ok.” “Ok, so what does she look like?” “She’s Chinese”. [...]

This is a common example for mysql limits. I think it is even in the official documentation (which is repeated all over the net). SELECT * FROM `your_table` LIMIT 5, 5 This will show records 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 Why silly? Because is it the first 5 or the second 5 that is [...]

Yea, it just gets better. So I got fed up with my local retail and decided to go above their heads to get an answer. I called the 800 customer support number, who called the manager of the store, who called the chief genius in and they got things moving quite quickly. Apologies up and [...]

Sigh. Tomorrow will be day 14 of my Mac Pro saga. It started with blue screens of death and bad memory and has expanded into bad hard drives and a ridiculous amount of ‘we’re about to call you’ replies from the Mac Geniuses. What really is bugging me, beside the fact that at this point, [...]

The London Times has a whiff of a scandal and is all over it. Apparently JP Morgan withheld $17 billion from Lehman, causing their financial crisis last month that led to their collapse. Bankruptcy hearings are underway and the details are expected to be brought up in open court. Of course, they were asked to [...]