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Benchcoach is live!

Ladies, Gentlemen, Friends:
The day you have been waiting for is here. I’m pleased to announce that benchcoach is open for business!
Benchcoach is the best analytic fantasy baseball scenario evaluator website the world has ever seen. Period. Without clause, caveat or qualification, you will not find a better site with which to see […]


I think I failed the Turing test

There’s supposed to be a series letters and numbers in the image. I’m supposed to look at it, figure out what it says, and enter it in to prove that I’m not a robot.

I think I fail.


Programming Concept: Fractal Tasks

A fractal is something that has never ending detail. Looking at the thing from a distance the over all shape is clear. But the closer you look at it, the more details are revealed. The blue picture on the right, for example, is a picture of the Mandelbrot set. The red […]


iPhone legal code

And in other the nitpicking parse-fest news, the iPhone SDK agreement
has some interesting language regarding what sorts of code you can, or can not, install and otherwise enable on a customer’s iPhone.
3.3.2 An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any means, including without limitation through the use of a […]


On being wrong

The iPhone developer kit is coming out today, and with it they’ve announced a slew of new features. Including “enterprise” push email and the ability to talk the Exchange protocol directly.
On the front page of daringfireball John Gruber links to an earlier post where he says the chance of this happening is “nearly zero”. […]


Oh, the memories

Looks like we may have our first contractor at benchcoach! Pretty exciting times. Been going through some old files to figure out the terms of the contract and I stumbled upon this gem of an old cover letter:

From: Withheld
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 9:53PM
To: […]


Holodeck from your living room using a Wii remote

You can download the software at johnnylee.net. Now I just need to wait online again — for the third time — at the Nintendo store or just shell out the $500 to actually get a Wii….


In Praise of Idleness

It will be said that, while a little leisure is pleasant, men would not know how to fill their days if they had only four hours of work out of the twenty-four. In so far as this is true in the modern world, it is a condemnation of our civilization; it would not have been […]


Wordpress & nginx, sitting in a tree

Gee, I wonder why my subscriber count was way down this week? Guess who didn’t configure nginx right when I capistrano’ed everything.

That’s right. Me.

In case you are looking for the rules in the future, here’s my vhost for the sublimeguile server. Originally, I had just made the 404 page redirect to index.php […]


WebClippings

I’m really getting into the new web clippings feature of Leopard. Go to any website and then select the little scissor icon and there you go, instant dashboard widget.
I use it for stats and what not, but where I think it’s really great is tracking UPS and FedEx deliveries. The widgets are […]


Time machine restore works; second drive failure in 2 weeks

Today my main drive failed.
Now when Robin’s computer died last week, about an hour after install Leopard, I figured it was just a fluke. We had a conversation that morning about backing up. It went something like this.

Will: You should really back up your stuff. Hard-drives just die sometimes. It’s one […]


More Apple Fanaticism

Just ffffound this picture, and it jumped out as the way to follow up the last 2 posts. Apparently I’m not the only one who felt that the Java a-snide was really misleading and needed to be called out, and he followed up with a post called Shipping Means Prioritizing. If this was […]


Jackass of the week: John Gruber

From daringfireball.net
Java Developers Unhappy With Leopard ★
I fail to see why anyone (other than Java developers themselves) would care.
Wow, this Apple fan-dom thing can be really annoying. (Note I’ve still got my original MacPlus from 1986, which still works, I cut my teeth on ThinkC, etc.) “I fail to see why anyone would […]


Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists

I read a lot of computer books, and the Processing Handbook is one of the best ones I’ve ever read. Processing in a graphical programming environment which is targeted for not programmers, and as a result Reas & Fry have spent a long time working out how to best teach graphic programming in a […]


Single Table Inheritance in Hobo

ActiveRecord used single table inheritance to store a heirachy of models in the same table, using a column called type to know what object to stick the data it as it comes back from the database. This is pretty cool, but… when you define your fields in a hobo model, it uses method_missing to […]


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