GECCO 2008
I’m at GECCO 2008, the ACM’s SIGEVO annual conference. This morning, PZ Myers gave a very nice keynote talk on
Read moreComputation
Computers, software, programming, and other bits
The Practice of Science: Broken
I’m going to make what is likely to be taken as an extreme criticism. I hope to start some discussion
Read moreThings That Make You Go, “Hmmmm.”
For the past several weeks, I’ve been getting email from L. Scott Smith announcing his new blog. I took a
Read moreMac OS X and Midnight Commander: The Missing “Insert” Key
I do a lot of work at a Unix command line interface on the MacBook Pro. One of the very
Read moreAnother OS Upgrade
I have a Gateway MT6458 laptop. It came with Windows Vista pre-installed. I pretty much immediately shrank the partition to
Read moreWarning buoys for right whales installed along Massachusetts Bay
Warning buoys for right whales installed along Massachusetts Bay Chris Clarke and the Ornithology Lab at Cornell University have an
Read moreThe Transmigration of ERV
Abbie Smith is the latest blogger to switch over to ScienceBlogs, taking her ERV blog there. Of course, there’s a
Read moreAnother Upgrade
I’m somewhere near Dade City, and I just got email that Diane’s weblog had been cracked. So I just upgraded
Read moreAmazon’s Kindle
Amazon has been looking for more ways to market content, and they’ve come up with one. Amazon’s Kindle is a
Read moreMac OS X Leopard
I’m using a MacBook Pro laptop as my primary development platform for work. The project has sprung for the OS
Read moreMore Plotting
I followed up on a comment left in the earlier comment thread about giving gnuplot a try. For some reason,
Read morePhotos on the Server
I have a FreeBSD-based box acting as a file server. One thing digital photography does is allow one to accumulate
Read moreBudget Computing
Back in 2006, we passed on a computer system to a friend of ours who had none at home. Since
Read moreMaking the Dynamic into the Static, and Why
Part of the Antievolution.org domain is an online web-based bulletin board system; let’s call that the AE Public BB. It
Read moreAnother Thing About Windows Home Server
Remember a while back when I talked about HP’s Media Home Server, a way-high-price-point box that runs the Windows Home
Read moreElementary, It Says
There’s a website that encourages people to toss in their blog URL and get a readability assessment. I did that,
Read moreHandy Tool for “Ooops”
I heard about DesktopBSD from Skip Evans. This is a configuration of FreeBSD that provides support for automatic detection of
Read moreJPEGs and Rotation
My Nikon D2Xs has an orientation sensor, so if I take a vertically-oriented photo, that information gets placed in the
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