Archive for April, 2007

Holy Crap I Found an Awesome OS X Feature

I got to thinking today that it would be neat if I could place a background image in my Terminal windows. See, I spend 99.9% of my time ssh’ed into other machines. I do all my development remotely on other boxes. It doesn’t really get confusing which box I’m on, but it [...]

Magazines I Read

Cover-to-cover (in the bathroom):
Playboy (they could take the pictures out as far as I’m concerned)
Maxim
Stuff
F1 Racing
Time
Newsweek
Ping:
Shawn Hogan
Guy Kawasaki (stop writing god damn book reviews and write more great articles like the ones in your top 10)
Neil Patel
Dave

VT Tragedy a Case Study for Shall Issue

This thing in Virginia is an absolute fucking atrocity. It shouldn’t have happened; it shouldn’t happen. Thing is, it did. Unless we’re completely unwilling to accept reality, it will happen again. It has gone down in schools, shopping malls and post offices. The only thing we can do to is [...]

Mercedes-Benz Engine Diagnostics Package

Here’s a picture of Mercedes-Benz F1’s new high-tech engine diagnostics package. They say the resolution and accuracy rivals even the fastest supercomputing clusters. Renault might have Albert, but thats no competition for this system. This system is able to detect engine failure at the very moment that smoke starts billowing out the [...]