Category Archives: Geekstuff

The article is horrifically short for coming to a conclusion, and I haven’t read enough to make my own concrete judgement, but the first thing I thought when I read the comment about the $100 MIT laptop from Intel’s Barret was fear. Fear of getting gutshot and underpriced by something that is sufficient as opposedContinue reading “fear from Intel?”

It’s always amusing, sometimes in that not-so-funny-way, to see the drama that can come out from reviews of API, technical projects, and the like. A classic case in point is Aaron Swartz’ rather nasty and overblow review of trying to use Django. The very best part of the whole page are the comments – “LettersContinue reading “A little web drama”

I think Gus has the perfect embodiment of “agile development”. Heh. I hate it when that happens too…

hidden apps in MacOS X There are a number of helper applications hidden away in MacOS X. Sometimes just little things used by the built in applications, sometimes a bit more powerful. Many of them you’d never really want to run interactively, but there is one that I wish was more obviously available: Network DiagnosticsContinue reading “Hidden App in MacOS X – Network Diagnostics”

I’ve heard the whistle of Google Analytics since it was released a little while back, but Tim Bray’s article on it is the first that I’ve seen someone really dig into it – even just to show it off with some of his own comparisons based on his site. Kind of interesting…

Spotted this through Make today: Moleskine Notebook Hack. I almost always use a pen anymore, but its still a neat idea.

Well, I dove back into the world of SOAP services and Objective-C recently, digging back into things and trying figuring out how the pieces could all work together a little more easily. I guess the most general thing to say is WSMakeStubs (Apple’s code-generating tool for SOAP service proxies) is just sort of broken. ItContinue reading “SOAP and WSMethodInvocation”

AIM has been flaky a lot lately. Every time I turn around, it seems to have logged me out or otherwise disconnected me. And I’m seeing it happen periodically to others. What’s up with that? -joe

Dear Spamming Pieces of Shit, I’ve disabled trackback now too. Are you happy? You damn jerks. I’m going to have to dump this blog mechanism and do something else. WordPress is a possibility, writing something myself is too (although I’m lacking a bit o’ time for that right now).

PyInjector is cool. Gus isn’t so sure though…