A post on a web-design-related mailing list to which I subscribe pointed out this site for an ecumenical Christian group.  It has the distinction of featuring the most spastic, overdone, unintentionally amusing Flash intro I've ever seen -- and that's a pretty high bar.  Enjoy.  I'm not responsible for any unwelcome neurological effects.

I am now the proud owner of a T-Mobile G1, also known as the "Android" phone after the Google operating system it runs.  This thing is just amazing.  I'm sure I'll be discovering features for weeks...and then I plan to start coding for it.  But right now, I'm just relieved that I can finally hold my head high when fellow geeks start bragging about ( Read more... )

My graphics system on the home machine finally died completely, after several months of working under threat of violence about two times out of three. So on Friday night I bought a really spiffy new graphics card, took it home, and installed it. Nothing happened. Blank black screen. And no triumphant "Windows is starting up" sound...in fact, a ( Read more... )

Since the actual hyper-volatility of the stock market apparently wasn't sufficiently exciting, some sort of glitch afflicted Google stock right at the close of trading today. Check out the low price. Apparently this incident is under investigation.

GOOG  - Google Inc. (NASDAQ)

Google Finance   Yahoo Finance   MSN Money   AOL Finance   CNN Money   ( Read more... )

The cable installation went smoothly on Saturday.  We're now getting all data services -- TV, phone, and internet -- through one pipe.  The net bandwidth is 10Mbps down, 1 up.  That, my friends, is what we professionals refer to as "screamingly fast".  My spine tingles every time I watch the progress bar on a download.  Yes, I'm a geek, I know -- ( Read more... )

I'm in the process of setting up utilities for our new place.  I got a bundled package of cable, phone, and net from Time Warner Cable.  For a little extra, I'm going to have 10 Mbps downstream service, and 1 Mbps up.  That's about ten times faster than my present service ( Read more... )

Well, not quite the oldest in the world -- I know people who have email addresses that date back to around 1983 -- but at 16 years, "cberry@cine.net" is pretty darned old.  Thus it is with a certain regret that I announce the impending retirement of that address (and the equivalent "cberry@cinenet.net").  This won't happen tomorrow, or maybe even ( Read more... )

Last weekend I mentioned to a few people that I'm working on a project called "Vox Dei" which turns English-transliterated Hebrew words into music according to Paul Foster Case's note correspondences. A very preliminary, not-ready-for-prime-time version is here.

I'm mostly putting this out there to see if it works for other people; you'll need ( Read more... )

I'm evaluating a product for use at my day job which proudly boasts that it offers an "Application-oriented API".  Given that API stands for "Application Programming Interface", I'm finding it difficult to picture a non-application-oriented API.

Oh, wait, I forgot Win32.

In a dust-up over software patents, the Microsoft platform strategy manager for South Africa said:
"There is no such thing as free software. Nobody develops software for charity."

I'm expecting Microsoft to send me a cease-and-desist order for Achad any day now.