I spend a lot of time trying to get Cygwin and Windows to get along.

New iMovie won't open my old iMovie projects. Boo. Hiss.

Dear Apple, quit being crappy. You gave us HyperCard and then took it away, bit by bit. Seems you're doing the same thing with iMovie ( Read more... )

Last week, I got a brand new top-of-the-line iMac ( Read more... )

Last night, my sister Kristen and I had fun making up new lyrics for Alanis Morissette's "Ironic."

We need more. Please post some here.

Here's a couple to get you started:

Replace: It's like ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
With: It's six silver bullets when all you need is a stake.

Replace: It's the good advice that you ( Read more... )

I'm shopping for a new computer, and didn't even realize that "HyperThreading" (what has been called "SMT" for ages by "academics") is back.

The Intel Core i7 has HyperThreading. And, of course, SMP: 4 cores per chip ( Read more... )

I'm a fan of PlantUML, despite some minor english translation problems:

PlantUML allows you to quickly write :

• sequence diagram,
• use case diagram,
• class diagram,
• activity diagram,
• component diagram,

This is an article I stumbled across today.  I'm a fan of using stdint.h, and I like this explanation of why and when to use the different types.

Embedded.com - Guidelines for writing efficient C/C++ code

I've never remembered the "I before E" rule. It's always seemed so arbitrary. This video from Merriam-Webster Online makes me feel less retarded for thinking it didn't make any sense.

I Before E Video

I ordered some scuba gear during the sales last weekend. One of the items I purchased came with a free 1W LED flashlight (the yellow one on this pageYesterday at work-just for fun-I hooked the two lines going to the LED to my oscilloscope. Below are a couple of the screenshots I took of the signal ( Read more... )

Sometime, I plan to really check this out. It's so exciting!

LLVM 2.6 Release Notes