Upon getting back from the US in late August I noticed that my laptop suddenly doesn’t want to connect to my home wireless network. At the time I didn’t really give it much thought because everything else from the iPad to the iPhone to all the other laptops at home connected just fine and since [...]
Today I learned that quickreading scientific text isn’t all that quick at all. I have a theoretical exam on information theory on Tuesday and to start off the studying I wanted to read Shannon’s original paper on the topic, all 55 pages of it. Seeming as how quickreading is a little bit like opening a [...]
Today I learned that yesterday’s post where I spoke about the wonderful statics textbook that architects use it sounded a bit like a scathing review not only of the book itself, but the people reading it and that this was a bit … unkind, even mean. To be honest, all that stuff I just found [...]
Image via Wikipedia Here’s the situation: at my startup (Preona) we’re pushing to submit the final-ish version of LazyReadr to the App Store. We thought we’d be finished last Friday. Then we thought we’d manage to finish by Sunday. Now we believe we’ll have a reasonably crossed-out TODO list on the whiteboard by Wednesday or [...]
Image by Wollbinho via Flickr A local hackerspace I’m a part of is organizing a summer long hackday that’s starting in a few weeks. What we need right now are the crazies, most whackiest and twoplus insane ideas you can possibly think of. And pimp ‘em out, get votes! When the hacking carnage begins the [...]
