文書は英語ですが、写真は共通
(though I'm taking a break from blogging for a while)
Archive for the 'Tech' CategoryPosts relating to techie things Technology is wonderful, but I'm fairly used to it, and it's rare these days that I'm surprised by it. Today, I was surprised by something. My wife has her Yahoo! Mail Japan account set to alert her via cell-phone text messaging when she receives a new email message. Thus, when she gets a new email, her cell phone eventually chimes. This is pretty standard stuff. So, when I sent her a message about a friend's blog with some spectacular photos, I wasn't surprised to hear her phone chime. I wasn't surprised that my keystrokes on my Mac laptop in [...]
I had the most interesting peek into my past recently, when the Rootstown Water Company asked me to look at a small issue with their billing software. I originally wrote it back in 1986 (19.5 years ago!). They're still using it, unaltered except for one bill-formatting routine which needed to be updated for a new printer some years back. It's really pretty much in the state I left it, except that the machine is running Windows 3.11 now (it had been running only DOS 2.11 when I was there -- I know the version number because they still have the [...]
My dad normally watches TV on his computer, so doesn't really know much about the TiVo in the living room. But when I was out today and he was on babysitting duty, Anthony asked to watch Dora. Dad fumbled with the TiVo remote control not really knowing what to do, until Anthony (not yet 2 years 8 months old) told him "top button". Indeed, that's the button used to pull up the main TiVo menu, and from it Dad was able to cue up a Dora episode. 
View full post » So, I drank the Kool-Aid(tm) and bought an iPod last Sunday. I bought what at the time was called a "60GB iPod Photo" for $449, but now a few days later is simply called a "60GB iPod" for $399. (The "Photo" moniker and $50 were dropped.) Since I bought mine at a local store, I didn't get the laser engraving on the back, but now that the price has dropped, I may go ahead and return it (paying a $50 "restocking" fee), and order one online with my email address engraved on the back. Modern iPods don't come with a [...] 
View full post » In my first semester at grad school (wow, now 18 years ago... I'm old), all CS master's students were required to take two intensive "this is what you should have learned during undergrad classes", CS801 (theory) and CS802 (practice). The latter was taught by Dr. Dan Bergeron, who was -- and probably still is -- an excellent teacher, but whom I remember most as a man of stellar integrity and fairness -- a good father-figure that most collegiate environments lack. Anyway, while rummaging around some old papers the other day, I found this handout on "coding commandments" from the class. [...]
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