March 2010
1 post
Ingram Media Manager fail
Rant mode.
My library offers ebooks, which in turn requires the installation of Ingram Media Manager to access and convert them to something useful. IMM is not. Having it transfer the audio book directly to my iPhone (on MacOS X 10.6, running current iTunes (9.0.3)) corrupted its music database so I had to restore it from backup. Having it convert to MP3 failed once per audio part with the error...
December 2009
1 post
macbook syslog overflow
My (Snow Leopard) /private/var/log/DiagnosticMessages is overflowing with console warnings and errors, repeatedly creating full disk conditions. Every 10s, there is one from com.google.keystone.daemon. Testing the tips at Stopping all OSX Google background ‘updater’ apps to see if it alleviates the issue, after a sudo launchctl remove com.google.keystone.daemon which seems to have...
July 2009
2 posts
Live like a hobbit: building instructions →
June 2009
1 post
How many million people helped you toast your... →
It’s difficult to think on the scale of our civilization, understanding its fractal depth.
April 2009
1 post
December 2008
1 post
Sonos Controller for iPhone →
Such a wonderful solution to a problem I don’t have: play music in different rooms of your home, sync them up, centrally change volume, et cetera. :-D
September 2008
1 post
June 2008
1 post
WatchWhy more is less. (~1h Google talk)
May 2008
1 post
Voronoi Treemaps for the Visualization of Software... →
Neat way of visualizing hierarchical data sets (like disk usage or lines of code for a directory tree) as a 2D graph where surface area in proportionate to the metrics. Would be even prettier if the graph was evolved to a minimum-energy state (as soap bubbles would have organized themselves).
April 2008
1 post
Inside the heads of event coordinators
“It seems all other activities around here happen on Thursdays, so clearly it must be a good day to pick. Let’s pick Thursday.”
August 2007
4 posts
“Reports indicate that the English are feeling the pinch in relation to recent...”
– The English: “We’re Getting a Bit Cross”
Happiness doesn't come in bottles →
(via) Dopamine, endorphins, serotonin, fluoxitine (Prozac), oxytocin, alcohol, cocaine, amphetamine, heroin, nicotine, and why you shouldn’t think of joy in terms of chemistry, but action, bonding and sharing experience.
“It’s striking how often programmers manage to hit all eight points by...”
– Paul Graham, Holding a program in one’s head
June 2007
5 posts
Black hole hotel California →
I think this is the hotel I’ll be staying at. I wonder what the odds are of hitting black holes like this in Google Streetmaps. :-)
“The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new...”
– Isaac Asimov
Mosquito mashup
Mosquito season is here; first two swatted yesterday in my kitchen. No more open window nights, for some time to come.