A map which shows US casualties by home town. That’s a lot of people, and it’s a lot less than the Iraqis have lost. I have a lot of sympathy for America, and for the people of Iraq I guess to. What is this whole conflict improving? [tags: iraq war] [icbm: name=”Hotel Avante, Mountain View,…
Andrew is a loony
He hasn’t slept in something like 48 hours now. He’s a loony. On of the funnier parts of the trip over was listening to the Channel 9 “from the flight deck”. Before they could take of the United plane insisted on burning off 1,000 pounds of fuel. How long did it take? 5 minutes of…
Hotel Avante
Well, I got here. Nice hotel, nice staff on check in. Easy drive from the San Francisco airport for us foreigners. The San Francisco airport seems a lot nicer than the one in Los Angeles as well. [tags: hotel, avante]
Flattering
I’ve had some need to be reading the ImageMagick documentation recently, and it’s flattering to see that they link to my articles on ImageMagick so often. It makes the effort worthwhile to see that people appreciate the articles. [tags: article]
Old languages
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]