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Five Years - an engineer's perspective looking back

Back in 1994, a few of us at WRS had the pleasure of working with JPL on a mission based on a radical new concept: using Commercial Off-The-Shell (COTS) products to build a...

15 years 10 months ago

Twitter vs. Facebook

I’m looking for some advice on microblogging etiquette and usage. I have both twitter and facebook accounts, but I haven’t figured out when I should use twitter vs. facebook status...

15 years 10 months ago

Tech Support for Geeks

Over the holiday break, I waited on the phone 30 minutes to hear a tech support person sing Celine Dion in my ear while telling me to reset my cable modem. Ok, let me back up a bit...

15 years 10 months ago

Zune 30, Killed by Complexity

I first heard of it early New Years Eve, I guess. Hoards of Microsoft Zunes were committing mass suicide (a gruesome thought but the actual quote from the Slashdot article). Fears...

15 years 10 months ago

Five Years

Five Years. It doesn't seem like much. About 1/20th of a long human life span. 20 times 90 days. The amount of time it takes (roughly) from birth until entering school/pre-school...

15 years 10 months ago

Predictions for 2009

I’m not usually one to make predictions. It’s hard for me to tell the difference between a prediction and wishful thinking. But this article over at the Inquirer (still the best...

15 years 10 months ago

A look at WebKit

A few days ago, I was playing with Google's V8 JavaScript VM library and got it compiling with MinGW in Wascana . I submitted the patch to make it work but I haven't heard back. I...

15 years 10 months ago

I’m addicted to information

Over this lovely holiday break, I have decided to catch up on {everything}. Starting next year off with a clean to do list seems like a good idea. Before I left work for the...

15 years 10 months ago

VirtualBox 2.1 and assorted Christmas Fun

Just some random thoughts on this Saturday after Christmas. My family and I had a good Christmas, despite a little “Fun with Autism” moment with my Autistic son, but it’s all...

15 years 10 months ago

I could have had a V8, oh wait, I do

I've always been intrigued by programming languages and what makes them tick, and what is the best one for what situation. That's why Dave Thomas's keynote at ESE still has me...

15 years 11 months ago