I dearly hope that the newly announced (at CES) Panasonic 3D camcorder comes to be known as Johnny 5.
No disassemble!
Posts under ‘Tech’
Better Comics Feeds
Have you ever tried reading the XKCD feed on a mobile browser like Android Browser or Mobile Safari? Doesn’t it annoy you that you can’t read the comics’ title text (the additional joke that pops up when you hover the mouse cursor over the comic in a desktop browser)? Try the improved XKCD feed, which [...]
Lose the 10¢ — it’s worthless
Inspired by this analysis of coin efficiency at the Freakonomics blog, I’ve written a short Python script to calculate the efficiency of the Euro coin set. Like in the blog post, efficiency here means the lowest average number of coins needed to sum to any sub-Euro total (where all totals are assumed to occur equally [...]
Beware Math.abs()
If the title didn’t tip you off, this is going to be a technical post. So you might want to skip it if you’re only here to read about how my thumb is doing (very well, incidentally).
Anyway, onto the subject at hand.
I recently had cause to look at the list of bugs that FindBugs looks [...]
Waiting for the Mac Version
If you’re unlucky enough to use Windows, there’s some faint light—not at the end of the tunnel, but at least slightly illuminating the squalid darkness. Pick yourself up a nifty new browser at some point today or tomorrow (depending on your time zone, and whenever it actually comes out for real). Sadly, I have to [...]