Monday, January 29, 2007
The iPhone Shuffle
If you know anything about Apple, the iPod, and the iPhone, you will find the iPhone Shuffle pretty dang funny!
Saturday, January 27, 2007
Quote of the Day
As a leader and manager, I think this is now my favorite quote...
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Monday, January 22, 2007
Life imitates "Art", yet again
A little while ago, I wrote a post about a big chunk of ice shelf breaking off, just like in the movie The Day After Tomorrow. (By the way, have you noticed all the weird weather that's been happening this winter all over the world? Maybe it's not totally like the movie, but still, you have to wonder...)
Now, we have something right out of the movie The Italian Job. (The best part of this movie are the Mini Coopers! Oh, yeah!) One of the characters in the movie is a computer hacker who claims he can control the Los Angeles traffic control system. Well, now we have two traffic engineers who have been accused of hacking into the L.A. traffic control system.
"Curiouser and curiouser," a friend of mine would say...
Now, we have something right out of the movie The Italian Job. (The best part of this movie are the Mini Coopers! Oh, yeah!) One of the characters in the movie is a computer hacker who claims he can control the Los Angeles traffic control system. Well, now we have two traffic engineers who have been accused of hacking into the L.A. traffic control system.
"Curiouser and curiouser," a friend of mine would say...
Saturday, January 20, 2007
The end of an era?
The other day I uninstalled my Visual Studio 2003 environment. So, you say? And just what the heck is VS2003?
Well, for the past twenty-some-odd years, I've been a software developer by trade (I graduated college when I was six and started working right after that, by the way). VS2003 is a development environment. It allows us programmers to write the applications you use every day on your computer.
Even when I became the "manager" of a software development team, I programmed. I thought I would always write code.
Then last year, I became the senior manager of our little group of software products (developed and supported by about 25 people). Since then, I've been so busy managing people, technology, and the office, I haven't been able to help out with any of the coding! Since the development environment takes up a number of gigs of hard drive space, and since I haven't used it in over 4 months, I decided to uninstall it.
It was a sad, sad day. Maybe I'll whip out an editor and write some C++ code at home just for old time's sake. Maybe.
Well, for the past twenty-some-odd years, I've been a software developer by trade (I graduated college when I was six and started working right after that, by the way). VS2003 is a development environment. It allows us programmers to write the applications you use every day on your computer.
Even when I became the "manager" of a software development team, I programmed. I thought I would always write code.
Then last year, I became the senior manager of our little group of software products (developed and supported by about 25 people). Since then, I've been so busy managing people, technology, and the office, I haven't been able to help out with any of the coding! Since the development environment takes up a number of gigs of hard drive space, and since I haven't used it in over 4 months, I decided to uninstall it.
It was a sad, sad day. Maybe I'll whip out an editor and write some C++ code at home just for old time's sake. Maybe.
Monday, January 15, 2007
Friday, January 12, 2007
Happy Third Anniversary!
I never thought this pair would make it this far.
In fact, "experts" believed they'd only go 90 days. Hardly three months!
But here they are still going strong. They're both kind of short and ugly. And they really aren't very smart, but people keep trying to teach them new things anyway. They're both pretty slow, though. Heck, in three years, they've only gone 10.4 miles. Combined!
Yes, Spirit and Opportunity are celebrating three years on the Red Planet! Spirit actually landed on Jan 3, 2004 and Opportunity on Jan 24, 2004, so they're a little apart, but I think we can celebrate their anniversaries at the same time.
Go Spirit and Opportunity!
In fact, "experts" believed they'd only go 90 days. Hardly three months!
But here they are still going strong. They're both kind of short and ugly. And they really aren't very smart, but people keep trying to teach them new things anyway. They're both pretty slow, though. Heck, in three years, they've only gone 10.4 miles. Combined!
Yes, Spirit and Opportunity are celebrating three years on the Red Planet! Spirit actually landed on Jan 3, 2004 and Opportunity on Jan 24, 2004, so they're a little apart, but I think we can celebrate their anniversaries at the same time.
Go Spirit and Opportunity!
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Geek word of the day
Okay, it's more like a phrase, but here it is...
Data Deduplication: a process designed to make network backups to disk faster by eliminating large amounts of redundant data. Also called Data Reduction, Commonality Factoring, Capacity Optimized Storage.
Whadev... I just like that word... Deduplication. Ain't it cool?
Data Deduplication: a process designed to make network backups to disk faster by eliminating large amounts of redundant data. Also called Data Reduction, Commonality Factoring, Capacity Optimized Storage.
Whadev... I just like that word... Deduplication. Ain't it cool?
Monday, January 08, 2007
Feliz Navidad
Yes, I know it's not Christmas anymore.
But in the door I come after a run, and my son is singing "Feliz Navidad." Oh, cool. An interest in something besides Pokemon! Wait! That's not "Feliz Navidad" he's singing... it... sounds... more... like... what is that?...
"Fleas on my dad." Yes, that's it. That's what he's singing. "Fleas on my dad" sung to the tune of Feliz Navidad. Try it. It's kinda catchy. It just falls apart when it gets to the "Prospero ano y felicidad" part. Oh, well.
Anyone interested in a slightly beat up 7-year old? Just kidding. No children were harmed in the making of this blog post.
But in the door I come after a run, and my son is singing "Feliz Navidad." Oh, cool. An interest in something besides Pokemon! Wait! That's not "Feliz Navidad" he's singing... it... sounds... more... like... what is that?...
"Fleas on my dad." Yes, that's it. That's what he's singing. "Fleas on my dad" sung to the tune of Feliz Navidad. Try it. It's kinda catchy. It just falls apart when it gets to the "Prospero ano y felicidad" part. Oh, well.
Anyone interested in a slightly beat up 7-year old? Just kidding. No children were harmed in the making of this blog post.
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Now THAT's forward thinking!
If I haven't mentioned it here, I've mentioned elsewhere that Google is taking over the world. Well, it appears that Earth just isn't big enough for Google. They want the moon as well, and they've got a long-term plan in place already. The following quote is from this web page:
"Glad you asked, and yes, the development of our lunar hosting and research center continues apace. We usually don't announce future products in advance, but in this case, yes, we can confirm that on July 20th, 2069, in honor of the 100th anniversary of mankind's first manned lunar landing, Google will fully integrate Google Local search capabilities into Google Moon, which will allow our users to quickly find lunar business addresses, numbers and hours of operation, among other valuable forms of Moon-oriented local information."
They've also got some amazingly detailed pictures of the lunar landscape. In fact, go over to http://moon.google.com/, zoom in to the closest possible, and you'll see some amazing details of the surface. (Mouse on over, you won't regret it.)
"Glad you asked, and yes, the development of our lunar hosting and research center continues apace. We usually don't announce future products in advance, but in this case, yes, we can confirm that on July 20th, 2069, in honor of the 100th anniversary of mankind's first manned lunar landing, Google will fully integrate Google Local search capabilities into Google Moon, which will allow our users to quickly find lunar business addresses, numbers and hours of operation, among other valuable forms of Moon-oriented local information."
They've also got some amazingly detailed pictures of the lunar landscape. In fact, go over to http://moon.google.com/, zoom in to the closest possible, and you'll see some amazing details of the surface. (Mouse on over, you won't regret it.)
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