This is the first time I've spotted a $100 laptop actually in the field. The One Laptop per Child is a non-profit association dedicated to research to develop a low-cost laptop. "They are currently being tested around the world, including at the LEA primary school, Galadima, on
I've been working on 'Bob', an XML / Java binding tool, for a while. I've taken it far enough so that it's useful and reliable in sizable projects. There are a few more features, like implementing XPath lookups, that I want to add
These are some of my favourite things. This would usually only go into my Youtube favourites. But Coltrane deserves a special mention as one of the 8 wonders of the world. He's in the zone here, playing "My Favorite Things" with his quartet. https://youtu.be/
Computers are much too slow these days. Think back to the days of 512K of memory and tape backup and how much faster we could get work done if we just had more resources in the machine (faster processor, more memory, etc). The speed with which we can get our
This is hustler talk; street science that I'll never know anything about. And yet Hip Hop and New York states of mind influence global pop culture like no other place or art form can. Check out some sick flows from the city that never sleeps and Hip Hop
I usually need some kind of reason to fly off on the handle like this. But for some reason, I'm thinking of and trying to refine my mental model of a DFA. See chapter 2.2 "Grammars" from Etienne Gagnon's thesis paper where he
f you've read my blog often enough, you'll know how much I admire and pursue human freedom. Well with the electronic and computer age, we've come into a whole new era where computers and the electronic data we use everyday, defines how our lives
More freedom for artists. Yessss, I love it!!! Everyone knows that at the beginning of Oactober, Radiohead released their album independently of a major label and that now they have amazing sales numbers to go with it. It seems more and more artists are now going the independent route, collecting
OK, I've been starving for some more music. I was going to call this mix "Purple Haze" - hazy, a bit blurry, and some of that old soul that I could feel back with Hendrix. Then I thought how much I wanted to feel each track
Mediafire.com is a popular file hosting service that I was using to store some of my music mix files. And 5 of those files have gone missing. How can a service whose business is to host files, lose those files?!?! I am incredulous and very upset especially after not
I usually don't feel compelled to post about politicians or philosophy. But I came across this compelling video of Ron Paul talking at Google. He's got it pretty close in terms of personal liberty, freedom of the individual, respect for contracts, etc. There was an undercurrent
Google is focused mostly on the consumer world where they just seem to keep hitting 'em out of the ballpark. They've come out with some new features that's going to increase their relevance in the blogosphere, and mapping space. However, I and a new colleague