I’ve long been looking for a solution for playing back iTunes movies on my iPad/iPhone without having to sync the content to the device over USB. By luck, a friend tipped me off to the fact that MobileSafari would allow you to playback DRM’d content served over HTTP. From that ... Continue Reading
One of the several things I love about using Apple computers is the fact in general, when I set out to do some project, things just work as planned (not sure if Apple deserves credit in all cases though). This is definitely not always the case, as evidenced by some of my angry tweets in th ... Continue Reading
As is typically tradition for me, I’m going to be cooking for some friends again this holiday weekend. Lately that seems to involve me and a grill more often than not and I wanted something a bit healthier than steaks or ribs (despite their tastiness), so I decided to dig through the ... Continue Reading
On Monday while riding into the city (the city = San Francisco for those not from this area), I took the opportunity to play with my iPad. Needing an internet connection and not having a 3G model yet, I used my iPhone + MyWi to get online. Randomly, I decided to open up the maps app and hi ... Continue Reading
Today I was challenged with the following advanced statistics problem: Two variables are exponentially distributed with rate parameters lambda 1 ( λ1 ) and lambda 2 ( λ2 ). What is the probability ( p ) that variable 1 ( X1 ) is less than v ... Continue Reading
Today while working with a 3rd party’s codebase, I ran into a situation which git-svn could not directly handle without pulling in massive amounts of unnecessary repository history. Turns out the solution was much simpler than I anticipated, so I’m sharing here in case it’ ... Continue Reading
Since I spent the time to dig up the method of calculating the wind chill given a specific temperature and wind speed, I figured I would go ahead and share it in case someone else finds it useful. Here’s three functions for calculating the wind chill, one each for Javascript, PHP, an ... Continue Reading
A good friend of mine started a new blog on Math and Programming related topics. She has an interest in Ruby development, especially with an abstract algebra / math focus, so if you’re interested in either Ruby or Mathematics, I’m sure there will be posts there which you will f ... Continue Reading
First drawing using Brushes, originally uploaded by Jeremy Johnstone. Today I spent most of the day catching up on my blog reading and I stumbled across an article about a guy using an iPhone app named Brushes to design this month’s cover of The New Yorker. Highly impressed by ... Continue Reading
Over the past week or so, I’ve been hearing a faint but very high pitched (>12k hz) whistling like sound coming from my 2006 Honda Accord V6 Coupe. It’s kind of a cross between an air leak type sound and the sound of a metal ball bearing spinning at high speed inside a metallic ... Continue Reading
