Google’s slogan used to be “Don’t be evil.”, but whether by accident or design Google’s new privacy policy — really a “you have no privacy” policy — is evil. Giving Google information had been acceptable, because they did not aggregate all of the bits of knowledge we entrusted them with into a single profile. On …
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OMFG! Want!
More importantly, I want to work with/for/near Bret Victor. After I spent a few posts bagging on Sierra as an inadequate mechanism for improving the spend and quality of code, here comes this guy with an amazing demo of the kinds of tools that could revolutionize software development. Check the video for all the hotness: …
6.002 study group
I enrolled in 6.002x Circuits & Electronics on MITx, if anyone is interested in forming an online/offline study group, let me know. I’m pretty sure I’m going to need help with this one.
Hosting changes
Things are a changin’ at Knot. I’ve started the ball rolling at moving the server infrastructure to a web-hosting provider. It looks to me like most/all of the functions we still depend on can be much more economically handled be an external hosting company. There’s the additional benefit that I’ll be less involved in routine …
Sierra, again.
OK, there are other things I meant to post, but I ran across the latest update on the Sierra language Kickstarter, and I really need to comment. First the update: Update #1: Sierra to Objective C Posted 5 days ago I have decided that the project will first translate into Objective C rather than having …
Dropbox: up to 5gb more space free
We love dropbox. I think we have it on every device that supports it. Now Dropbox is offering up to 5gb more space for those who help BETA test the new “automatic camera import” feature. Head over to the beta forums to get details, then grab the latest version here. (via Engadget)
Getting serious about backups
With the new year and new operating system install on my mac, I’ve finally gotten serious about backups (again). After a few years of essentially no backups for my day-to-day system, Apple has inspired me by making constant backups simple with Time Machine. You can read about Time Machine all over the Net, so I …
Unboxing: XMachines Lorei 3D Printer
Here’s a quick post just to show the unboxing video for our new 3D printer, an XMachines Lorei. It arrived in a pretty large box, much bigger than I expected. Here’s a photo, with a spool of filament next to it (the spool is 8″ in diameter). Ok, here’s the unboxing videos, no editing, and not …
Boxer & Pro Pinball: Big Race
I’ve been getting some older games working again courtesy of Boxer. Boxer allows modern Macs to run games from the DOS era with a minimum of fuss. I happen to have a few programs left over from that era since some mac games included the DOS versions, and some I just bought for my (infrequent) …
Microsoft: too greedy to get out of their own way.
So I just started up my Xbox 360 for the first time in 6 months to try out the new Metro UI and media features. First stop, the Netflix app. After downloading the app and starting it up, I get told I need an Xbox Live Gold account to use Netflix. Now I have a …
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