the occasional occurrence

So I’m teaching my class the basics of HTML and making a web page. We only have two days to cover the basics, so stuff like CSS, Javascript, etc. are pretty much out. I still want to help them understand what a good page/site looks like though, and that is getting harder to [...]

Ok, I have been told that I am really late to the game on this whole VMWare Player thing. It was apparently released in the fall. But for anyone is more or at least behind the times as I am, maybe this will be some useful info.
So, the VMWare Player … it’s a [...]

So I have become interested in AI again in the past few days. A couple weeks ago, I read an article in Wired about the Grand Challenge - basically, a race across miles and miles of desert where the cars have no drivers. Well, no human drivers at least. The cars have some sort of AI that guides each of them. (more)

Man, 3 days in a row awake at 5 AM. Sorry, it’s just a personal record, I think.
Curtis joined me again at 6 AM. He’s actually been very nice company this morning. He’s sat next to me reading books and asking fun questions.
I messed around with a web site yesterday called MyHeritage. [...]

After talking with the guys in the office about how it is not easy for most users to resize images and then getting an email from a friend (Andy) alluding to this same fact, I realized I have something to share with you, my readership (can I call you that?).
Behold, a free gift for you [...]

I needed to download a readme from Cisco’s site today. Here was the process:

Go to cisco.com
Login to get to support
Find the file I want.
Login again - this time to the download section
State whether or not I intend to export the README to terrorists
Agree that Cisco can charge me for the README if I am [...]

The truth about IT
More truths about IT
Wecome to my world. I happen to work in a very good IT organization, too. I feel sorry for those of you toiling under a boss who can’t say “no” and expects the “extra mile” all the time. “Extra” sorta loses its meaning in that context. [...]

Subject line read:
you are the one and only baltimorean
Wow … and I’m not even from Baltimore.
But sure I’ll buy medication from you!
the baltimorean

For those of you seeking the goods, they can now be found at my new projects site. Recursively, one of the available projects is the project site itself: brockman*. Just install it, add your own projects, and away you go.
brockman is written in Python (of course) using the CherryPy web application framework and [...]

FORTUNE - Microsoft’s New Mantra: “It Just Works”
Interesting article.
My favorite quote:
Microsoft’s research shows that the average corporate employee spends about 20% of her time on the PC simply looking for items.
Are they serious? Methinks that personal organization skills need some work, not operating systems. And I’m not even a super organized person. [...]