I never thought I’d say this, but I’m slightly intrigued by Apple’s Nike + iPod product after reading Cabel Sasser’s Multiplayer Game of the Year. The whole idea is that you put this transmitter in your shoe, and it transmits data on your movement to the iPod Nano, which then records it and allows […]
My first web hosting provider when I started this blog was eHostDepot (www.eHostDepot.com). I (we, actually — my friend was a customer also) had a lot of problems with the service initially, but one of their employees managed to get us taken care of, and the subsequent year of service was decent, if rather […]
The TI-85 graphing calculator was something of an icon back in high school. Almost a status symbol, and not just for nerds. Or maybe that’s just the way I remember it. Our class had a stock of TI-82’s, but the -85 was much more desirable (black case instead of blue… that’s the […]
We live close to a UPS distribution facility and so I frequently see their trucks in the morning. There’s something really cool about seeing UPS trucks streaming out of the complex, all turning onto the ramp to I-285 E/W and I-85 S, and then splitting up, two or three going off on each ramp. […]
I found Eric Meyer’s “Flummoxed By Frameworks” somewhat comforting. Over the past 5 years I’ve fiddled with a number of frameworks. Some made more sense than others. But they web projects don’t pay the bills around here, and my interest in the related project invariably wanes. Anyway, I found the Rails […]
