December 2006
Saturday 30 December
- Merry Christmas to me (20:19) - If you're like everyone else in my family, you're really going to think I'm crazy now (if you didn't already before). I just bought a $300 keyboard, the Kinesis Advantage USB Qwerty/Dvorak Black. See It. Here were the factors that went into my decision (in no particular order): 10% off sale when ordering before Dec. 31. My current keyboard is going on 9 years old (amortize $300 over 9 years and it comes to $30/year or about 8.2 cents per...
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Monday 25 December
- Merry Christmas! (11:13) - Merry Christmas to everyone. May peace be with you on this day....
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Sunday 17 December
- Busted! (14:51) - This story really made my day: Laptop helps man in Germany bust burglar in Brazil (CNN) A technically savvy man wired his home in Brazil to trigger a message to his cell phone in the event that the security system was tripped. He then logged in remotely and watched the man who had entered his house. The police were called and the man was apprehended. That's just brilliant! Maybe all of our newfangled technology really is good for something: catching...
Sunday 3 December
- The ultimate data structure? (19:59) - One of the projects that I worked on this year (not related to BitWise) involved storing and processing a decent amount of data in a PC application. I had sketched out on paper all sorts of elaborate structures with hash maps instead hash maps, sorted arrays, lists, and ways to link them all together. I was really dreading implementing all of this, especially writing the algorithms to join the data together. Then I got this nagging little thought in the...
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