All over the Mac rumor sites, I've been seeing speculation on iPhone OS 3.0. Apple announced that it will be discussed in a few days, so this is normal enough. What prompted this post is the utter wrongness of some of the speculation.

For a few years, Apple has been planning a feature called "resolution independence". For some absurd reason, people ( Read more... )

I had quite a bit of "fun" yesterday trying to solder some QSOP-16 and SOT-23-5 chips to breakout boards to give them DIP spacing. I couldn't use the skillet soldering method because the adapters had pins already.ended up ruining one chip, but another appears to work. Still, I would like to have more than a 50% success rate.

Does anyone have ( Read more... )

I recently ran across a fantastic cover of a track originally by one of my favorite groups, The Knife. The same artist has also covered some other tracks, notably Teardrop by Massive Attack, one of my other favorite groups.

José González - Heartbeats (in an ad for Bravia TVs)

José González - TeardropHis playing reminds me of Nick Drake's less ( Read more... )

I hate televised sports. It seems that they invariably run over the allotted time slot and when they do, the network either just skips the show they were going to play or they shift their entire schedule by the amount of time the game went over ( Read more... )

Monday and Tuesday, I had some AAA (Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting/Auditing) training at work. The first part deals with how we can verify that someone is who they say they are in a secure manner. We discussed digital certificates quite a bit, including how they can be used to verify signatures from the private key. A lot of this ( Read more... )

I just finished watching Elephant. It was rather good. I find it more than a little creepy that the majority of the characters had their actors' names, though, and the last line was downright disturbing ( Read more... )

Now this is weird. Take a look at this ad ( Read more... )

Now that I've had more than 24 hours to play with the final version of Leopard, I've noticed a few interesting things ( Read more... )

Looks like I was right ... kind of. Apple are releasing an SDK to let people code apps that will run natively on the iPhone and iPod Touch. I was wrong about the time scale (I thought it would come with Xcode 3 in Leopard). They aren't making it easy to link to the press release, though. It's on the Apple Hot News site and is currently the top ( Read more... )

I just found out this morning that my grandfather on my mom's side died at about 3:20 AM today ( Read more... )