I have a friend who used to code in an ancient and archaic language that was used for things like starting fires and planning assaults on the wooly mammoth. You know — an old language. [tags: language old age] [icbm: work]
Make Magazine: Building a Myth TV Box part 1
A guide on how to build a myth tv box. I know a few people who might be interested in this… [tags: mythtv tivo make oreilly magazine howto] [icbm: dcs]
How to get your podcast into the iTunes store
Make magazine does it again, this time with information on how to get your podcast into the iTunes store. [tags: iTunes pod cast podcast] [icbm: home]
Speech recognition hardware
I’ve always assumed speech recognition was a software problem. I was wrong. [tags: speech recognition hardware] [icbm: dcs]
Note to self: if hiding heroin, don’t use cocaine
Boing Boing post about Heroin hidden inside a block of Cocaine. I wish I’d thought of that! [tags: drugs heroin cocaine] [icbm: work]
Project Aardvark unmasked!
Side pilot is the output of Project Aardvark. Take one software startup run my an ex-Microsofty who is opinionated on software development (Joel of course). Take a few interns. Some open source software. Tabasco. Rub together… [tags: project aardvark joel side pilot software opensource] [icbm: dcs]
Starting a startup? Announce it now!
Apparently stealth start ups suck. Or something. [tags: stealth startup] [icbm: work]
Wanted: Someone who knows enough about ImageMagick to do some reviewing for me
I’m writing some stuff about ImageMagick at the moment, and it would be nice to have someone do some technical review of the stuff I’m writing to make sure I’m not a big liar or anything. There’s a possibility of being paid, but you need to know about ImageMagick, Linux and imaging in general. If…
Chocolate fudge self saucing pudding
I’ve talked before about cooking here, for example by my barbecued salmon recipe turned out ok. So here’s the dessert I’ve been meaning to write up for a while: Ingredients for the pudding: 1/2 cup of self raising flour 1/2 teaspoon of salt (I usually just use a pinch) 1 tablespoon of cocoa 90 grams…
Collisions in MD5 sums
This is kind of a big deal. Cryptographic has functions are used in a lot of computer science circles to take a large document and turn it into a relatively small description of the document. The transformation has a couple of interesting properties: It’s one way — which means that I can know that I…