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All nighters...
21 December 05 08:58 PM | MikeD
I've started listening to podcasts from the PBS series NerdTv and today I was listening to a conversation with Max Levchin, one of the co-founders of Paypal. who had just been through his third all-nighter - that week. He said it was not unusual for him...
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EPIC
06 January 05 09:57 AM | MikeD
Joel sent me this link: http://www.broom.org/epic/ This video has IJH* all over it. It is an interesting view of the direction that we're taking in the next ten years. My primary thought around this kind of convergence, where everything is tailored to...
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You want to build your own PC next time? Make it small....
24 March 04 10:19 AM | MikeD
This is too cool. There are a ton of projects on this website about building small PC's, but this one was sent to me in particular. I was fascinated by the process, but what he did at the end of the project seemed to be the biggest trick of all. http...
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Flame Warriors
19 March 04 04:50 PM | MikeD | 2 comment(s)
There are 10 groups of people in the world, those who blog and those who don't.... Actually according to Mike Reed , there are 90 types of Flame Warriors . I suppose I may sometimes come across as an Evil Clown .
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What Monty Python character are you?
18 February 04 04:19 PM | MikeD
I am the rabbit, with “nasty, big, pointy teeth!” What Monty Python Character are you? brought to you by Quizilla
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How cold is it?
29 January 04 09:42 AM | MikeD
It's so cold here in Manitoba that one of the towns nearby had its natural gas supply line freeze up : Temperatures took a nosedive Wednesday night; the mercury fell to the dreaded –40 C and with the wind chill, it felt like –52 C. Residents...
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ThinkGeek.Com has an RSS feed!
21 December 03 09:14 PM | MikeD
ThinkGeek.Com has a "What's New" RSS feed. These guys have great stuff for geeks, and lots of suggestions for spouses of geeks for Christmas. Mike
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Matrix Spoof Video
05 December 03 05:36 PM | MikeD | 1 comment(s)
Featuring Steve “Developers, developers, developers, developers!” Ballmer. (you gotta be a geek to understand this one): http://www.only4gurus.com/v2/preview.asp?ID=4551 And another Matrix spoof video: http://codematrixusa2.free.fr/reloadedparody...
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Christmas quote
05 December 03 04:08 PM | MikeD
My wife sent me this quote: "You will decorate for Christmas; you will do it with a smile on your face, and a carol in your heart, or so help me, I will shove mistletoe so far up your scrooge a$$, you'll be sneezing berries for a week." :)
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Forklift training video
04 December 03 02:31 PM | MikeD | 12 comment(s)
How not to drive a forklift . Warning: there's a lot of blood and gore in this video. And there may be bad language too, I have no idea, because it's in German.
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