Wirehead on Hacking

This will start to contain all of my noises and ruminations about hacking, hardware projects, gadgets and the art of programming.

The iPad 2010-05-14 12:54PM

I, of course, didn't pay for my iPad. Which kinda blows the cost-effectiveness argument out the window for me. And along these lines, if iPads were to grow on trees, I'd pick at least a half dozen of them to be distributed through my living space. Because that's how cool they are...

Keyboards vs. Whatever 2010-04-25 05:56PM

Ever have a discussion between somebody where you described something of crucial importance to you and had them shrug their shoulders back at you?

I'm realizing that, as far as phone input goes, it's kind of like that.

Unsorted iPad and Android thoughts 2010-04-23 12:08PM

I got an iPad at work as a reward for exactly how above-and-beyond I've gone. Which is coincidentally not very long after I got myself a Motorola Droid and said a number of things about Steve Jobs' mother to Ajit. Which now means that Ajit got a lot of joy out of congratulating me on acquiring my new Apple toy...

The Apple II rule 2010-04-12 12:05AM

All useful computing devices must be able to emulate an Apple IIe (or Commodore 64, for that matter). If you aren't allowed to, it's too restricted. If it's not capable of it, it's too slow. If nobody's ported an emulator yet, it sucks or is too hard to program.

I finally got a Droid 2010-04-06 12:07PM

Because you know the only reason why the PADDs on Star Trek beeped was to keep Worf from playing Doom 97 while Riker droned on...

Last person out of the Windows Mobile world, remember to turn the lights off 2010-02-20 04:57PM

One thing that distinguishes a good leader from a poor one is that, in the midst of the situation, they are able to make a tough call instead of choking and not deciding anything.

Upgrading major versions of PostgreSQL with Debian or Ubuntu 2010-01-11 12:08PM

One problem with PostgreSQL as compared to MySQL is that PostgreSQL is a *real* database, whereas MySQL is a bunch of hacks. This means that PostgreSQL doesn't let you just drop a new version of the executable on an old database file. Which is pretty much the way that real databases prefer to work.

Time For Palm To Drop WebOS And Embrace Android (via) 2009-11-15 08:49PM

I agree with this post. Especially if you realize that Palm could probably recycle some portion of their WebOS effort to make an alternative to the standard Google look-and-feel.

Little bit o' Droid-lust 2009-10-24 03:18PM

My VX6800 has been falling apart, of late. Since nothing out there was really impressing me enough to spend money, I took it to the Verizon store, complained about how the keyboard wasn't working, allowed the rep to test the phone to verify that it was, in fact, not working, and got a new refurbished VX6800. But then I started hearing about the Droid...

Why I'm not excited about Windows CE and Windows Mobile anymore 2009-10-23 11:51PM

Long time readers of the blog have noted that I've been using Windows CE in various forms for quite a long time, largely by accident or because I like to think even more different than your average Apple user...

Cloud and the Sidekick-opalypse 2009-10-13 10:52AM

One thing that bugs the crap out of me about this whole "Cloud" thing is that there's a few different moving parts that are sold as one amorphous cloudy bloby thing. The details are often hidden from view, at a different level of abstraction, so you don't think of them. On the other hand, I do think about it, and I've spent enough time in the biz that I've seen some of the popular ways to store data in action...

Really, bad web design turns people off 2009-06-28 08:05PM

Now, I haven't designed web pages professionally since the nineties, having realized that the dotcom crash was coming partway through college...

Is spatial ability the "Geek Gene"? (via) 2009-05-04 12:25PM

I totally think that spatial reasoning is part of the "geek gene".

New web content engine, part 11 2009-02-09 12:22AM

So I've been wanting to better topical-ize my content. And I also wanted to better support FriendFeed. So I spent some time on the syndication support...

Ruby Mixin Tutorial (via) 2009-02-01 11:10PM

Some pointers about how to use mixins within Ruby.

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