Things Found In The Back Yard
As a Canadian living in Houston the summer is such a curse. It's hot. I mean really hot. Humid, too. But even that is not without its up-sides. Orchids really like it here. These are growing in our back yard.…
Ramble: New Keyboards Making Me Look Bad
I’m kinda picky about PC keyboards. My employer makes a line of TV graphics equipment and has historically bought keyboards from Cherry, a major German manufacturer. I have always liked their feel.
Some time ago they switched to a keyboard that is being custom made for us. Our gear needs a pile of custom keys dedicated to specific functions. So we always need to have keyboards customized.
Answering Zeeek’s Tweet
Last Thursday Zeeek (aka Randulo) twittered: Please rate in order of importance to you: love, health, money, job, world peace, gas prices, inflation, 2008 US election, iphone, twitter It's a good question, especially when posed to an international group. I…
Web Worker Daily: 14 Things Corporations Can Learn from Seasoned Web Workers
GigaOm's Web Worker Daily has a really nice piece called 14 Things Corporations Can Learn from Seasoned Web Workers. It lists ways that companies can adapt themselves to newer ways of working. I liked it do much that I emailed the…
About Social Media
Since I'm over 40 and a newby to the whole social media scene I find myself playing catchup a lot. This sequence is really profound. Very helpful to explain things. Beware, strong language ahead. What The F**K is Social Media?View…
The Path To Unobtainium
I've often joked that performance of various things could be improved if only we could get better raw materials. In particular the element Unobtainium could revolutionize semiconductor design. As it happens they call such materials "rare earth elements" for a…