I’ve always been interested in the space program. The Shuttle program started just a couple of years after I was born. I remember being awed by Skylab… and being crushed by the Challenger disaster. I felt for sure that I was growing up in a world that was heading toward making the universe I saw […]
So, you say this is for its “news value”. Fine. What’s the story? This documentation must be in support of some incredible revelation that the public simply must know about, right? For the public good? Twitter is going to sell all our souls to the devil, is that it? If […]
It used to be that I trusted Speakeasy’s Speed Test for accurate network measurements, but in light of recent results, I tend to trust Speedtest.net a lot more. To wit, these are the results from our recent switch to Comcast “Blast” broadband service (taken in alternating tests between the test services):
I understand Comcast does […]
The new iPhone announced on Monday is officially called the “iPhone 3G S” by Apple, but others (myself included) immediately started calling it the “///gs” — a combination of the Apple ///, and the Apple ][gs, two early pre-Macintosh Apple computers.
This was too good an idea to pass up, so I’ve created […]
My friend Rob Rhyne has been suspended from Twitter for the past week or so because of circumstances beyond his direct control. I submitted this to their support ticket system today:
Rob has essentially lost his voice in this matter to the Twitter community, so I’m trying to help bring this to the attention of […]
Many times in my edit review screenings, I’ve had a need to pull up a timecode display quickly and easily in Final Cut Pro, so the producer can see where we are and make notes about the cut with at least rough TC. But unlike Avid editors who are used to being able to easily […]
Commemorating the legendary consumption of Strawberry Napoleons at the NSCoderNightDC meetings at La Madeleine in Bethesda.
