Today over lunch coworkers were talking about Wolfram|Alpha and it sparked my interest again now that it’s finally open to the public. Tonight I decided to give it a whirl and unlike two of my friends, decided to throw it a softball initially with a very easy question: what is the sp ... Continue Reading
This weekend I finally got around to updating my website design again after a year since the last visual update. It seems it’s more or less become a once a year type deal. The old design just wasn’t doing it for me so I took the opportunity to scrap everything and start over. W ... Continue Reading
Digging around today for a PHP parser for OSX plist files, I was surprised to find no good pre-existing solutions. Even Apple’s own site gives a relatively poor solution to the problem (see here). Normally SimpleXML is enough to handle most XML parsing needs, but the plist XML format ... Continue Reading
I’m not sure what lead me to it, but I stumbled across a blog post on how to implement Enums in PHP via userland code written by Jonathan Hohle. I liked the concept he had, but the implementation was a bit unappealing because it used eval() among other more minor issues. You shouldn& ... Continue Reading
Got an interesting email forward from my father. I haven’t verified the math and statistical figures, but it looks right on a cursory glance (Update: It’s bad math, but still sounds like a good plan, no?). Very interesting idea to say the least. Dear American Citizens, I̵ ... Continue Reading
I’m constantly feeling like I am running 90mph to keep up with everything going on. I’m not complaining per say, but felt it would be prudent for me to figure out all the things I am involved in and then make a decision on if they are the most important usage of my time. I deci ... Continue Reading
Ok, so I have a problem. One which keeps me up at night and annoys me greatly, but I can’t seem to find a solution to fix. So what is this problem? Email SUCKS, that’s the problem! Ok Ok, I am sure you are thinking “great, and?” as it’s a common rant. HereR ... Continue Reading
Having a bit of free time this evening, I decided to do a bit of photo editing work. In this example, I took one slightly underexposed image + one highly overexposed image of a statue in London, England and combined them into one HDR image. Here you can see the three images, click one each ... Continue Reading
While in London last weekend I stumbled across an interesting laundry detergent alternative called EcoBalls. They are these green UFOish shaped balls with pellets inside. Not hearing of them before and being skeptical, I decided to hold off buying them, especially at £35. Doing a bit of ... Continue Reading
Like certain friends of mine, I love seeing my name online on the web, when used in a positive way of course, and love hearing my name mentioned in conversation when people think I am not listening. Because of this, it’s no surprise when a good friend of mine sent me the following I ... Continue Reading
