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A couple weeks ago I ordered the three “Schemer” books – The Little Schemer, The Seasoned Schemer and The Reasoned Schemer – from Amazon and have been working my way through the first one in my spare time. The books have a “dialog” sort of style to them that’s different than what you’ll find in [ READ MORE ]
This is pretty bad-ass. It’s a video presentation from SIGGRAPH 2007 on “Content-Aware Image Resizing” which sounds exceptionally dull until you see the video and (close to the end) watch the algorithm completely remove people from photographs[ READ MORE ]
Monday I ordered my early birthday present from TigerDirect (discounted by my personal account manager, since they seem to have a very loose definition of “Business Account”). Hopefully by tomorrow I’ll be unwrapping and assembling: An EVGA nForce 680i SLI Socket 755 Motherboard An Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4 GHz Processor An EVGA GeForce [ READ MORE ]
With the advent of modern technology, I’m thinking that I’m going to have a lot more photos that I want to organize and publish, so I’m reassessing my self-hosted Gallery2 setup that I’ve been using for a year or two. About the only things I can say that I genuinely like about the current situation [ READ MORE ]
So it turns out that the hard drive I was trying to mount in the enclosure I’d bought was being sneaky: it behaved normally just long enough for me to write a post about the enclosure being broken, mount the drive internally, and return the enclosure to the store. Then it stopped working entirely. I [ READ MORE ]
I swear I’ve got some supernatural effect on computer hardware that causes it to want to make things as difficult as possible for me. Since we upgraded to digital cable, our PVR box has been sitting unloved and unused in the spare bedroom because we don’t really have the space or the inclination to set [ READ MORE ]
Greg sent me this link yesterday showing the 360′s Guitar Hero controller working on Windows XP. Sure enough, I tried it out tonight and it was detected right away. My next step was downloading Frets on Fire and reconfiguring the key mappings to use the controller, and now I’ve got Guitar Hero on the PC. [ READ MORE ]
All of my new parts arrived on Tuesday, and last night – after also replacing a DVD drive that had been acting up – I tried out the new setup with a round of Neverwinter Nights 2. I even left the side of the case off to make it easy! After about five minutes of [ READ MORE ]
Just to make sure I didn’t accidentally let any money be left over after Christmas, I ordered a bunch of new parts for my computer late last week. The first (and biggest) part arrived today: a new 19″ LCD monitor to replace my current CRT. I had actually debated getting two monitors but the prices [ READ MORE ]
A long time ago Joel wrote a post about “Architecture Astronauts“: When you go too far up, abstraction-wise, you run out of oxygen. Sometimes smart thinkers just don’t know when to stop, and they create these absurd, all-encompassing, high-level pictures of the universe that are all good and fine, but don’t actually mean anything at [ READ MORE ]