About two weeks ago, I posted about the MGM DVD Class Action Settlement. As in my last post, this one will be half about MGM DVDs and half about speech applications. And if you are looking for a really meaningful discussion of the technical details behind the settlement, you should stop reading my blog immediately… Read More »
While I was doing some research before posting about my experience at the House of Chicken and Waffles, I ran across an article in the San Francisco Chronicle titled “Oakland in midst of soul food renaissance”. I’ve now been to 3 of the 4 restaurants mentioned in the article. The Southern Cafe is only a… Read More »
Trustic, the maker of the fantastic Bloglines service, has been acquired by AskJeeves. [Official press release] After trying out several different syndication feed readers, I settled on Bloglines many months (a year or more, even?) ago. While Bloglines offers much more than just a feed reader, I highly recommend Bloglines even if just for that.… Read More »
I haven’t posted about my Treo 600 in a long time, but I finally got around to doing something I’ve meant to do for a long time – syncing my Treo to Evolution. Just over a year ago, I got my Sony Clie to sync to Evolution on Red Hat 9. Though I had already… Read More »
I suspect that many of you are oblivious to the Southern delicacy of fried chicken and waffles. The chicken isn’t actually served inside of the waffle, or even on top of it. And the waffles aren’t deep fried, either. Just the chicken, which rides side saddle on the plate with the waffle. And getting a… Read More »
As a nice accompaniment to my recent post about the dangers of multitasking, someone recently posted an excellent article on personal productivity at Kuro5hin. And who should the article have quoted, but Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Once again, the concept of “flow” reigns supreme. The author of the article at Kuro5hin provides several excellent suggestions for improving… Read More »
As seen recently on Slashdot, MGM recently settled a class action suit involving the image quality of DVDs they sold under the classification of “widescreen”. The claim is that the image width of the alleged widescreen versions was no different than for the standard versions. As per normal class action settlement verbiage, MGM denies any… Read More »
Last week the San Francisco Chronicle had a nice article on traveling to Tasmania. Sandra and I spent a wonderful week a few years ago driving around the coast of Tasmania and through parts of the interior. I’ve had some photos from that memorable trip posted on this website practically from the day I first… Read More »
I didn’t realize backing up my DVDs using Linux could be so easy. Time consuming as hell, but fairly easy. Dvd::rip is a front end to a big pile of libraries that do the good deeds. One of the key libraries is transcode, but there’s a lot of other great software underneath the covers that… Read More »
Sam Ruby has already posted a simple patch to MoinMoin that implements Google’s proposal for a new link type for the rel attribute for the HTML anchor tag. The HTML specification supports the definition of new link types, as long as the author implements a profile. Google has proposed a “nofollow” link type, which will… Read More »