I’ll show you blue screen of death…
This is the environmentally friendly, politically correct way to deal with PC crashes.

The Original Palm Pilot ?
Bought this at a flea market in Frankfurt last week. It does computation, it has a stylus…

Rush Hour 2 [movie]
This is a Hollywood buddy cop movie happens to be starring Jackie Chan.
This is not a Jackie Chan movie.

The best action scene is the knife and the apple.
The best scene is right at the end of the outtakes. Make sure you stay for it.
There is really only one classic Jackie action sequence […]

Syntax Highlighting in Programming Editors [tech]
I don’t like IDE’s. I don’t like syntax highlighting in editors — i.e. use different colors for different
syntatic elements in a programming source file. Use green for keywords, brown for operators,
etc. It is like having verbs, nouns and other element types in English high lighted when
you do word processing [ […]

Just found out I left my Kompact Flash/PCMCIA adaptor card at home. So I cannot
take any more pictures on my Canon S100. My phone talks
to my Palm and to my laptop via infraRed. Why don’t they put a IR port in the
digital camera? Or use Bluetooth?
But most devices now have IR port built-in, and drivers […]

My Grandmother just Passed away
She is either closed to 100 or passed it. I have lost count. She lived a very full and productive life. Lots of hard work, but I think
she had fun also with the families, in her own grandmother sort of way. I am glad that I saw her just before the […]

Taking the weekend off
Two days on the Cape, no work, no email, no phone calls. Water, fresh air, grass, sleep.
Much needed rest for body and mind (Thanks: Dave, Anne).
I remember in one of my MBA classes, a guest
speaker told us that she always reserved Sunday evenings to be her personal time,
no matter what happens. She […]