Geeky

This does not look good. Not aesthetically, and especially not technically. It is a screenshot of my Mac at 13.36 yesterday. We’ve had some display issues in the past, mostly fixed, at least temporarily, by installing a little gizmo-app that speeds up the fans and keeps things cool. But this is different. The machine froze [...]

Another wonderful piece of software has landed in my lap. Workflowy (gack!) is “just” an online form to, you know, write shit down. I’ve been a GTD freak for a while now, not obsessively, but enough to get me through my days. And I’ve always found that the old hipster PDA served me better than [...]

The main reason I’m linking to this xkcd, Privacy, is that the mouseover text uses the exact same joke that Sydney Brenner used when the 1975 Asilomar meeting decided to put a temporary halt to recombination in the laboratory.

I had a lot of trouble trying to combine a Ken Burns gentle zoom with static framing after the zoom. It is easy enough to split a clip and apply Ken Burns to the first clip. The problem is getting the crop in the second clip to match exactly with the End framing of the [...]

We recently took delivery of a new immersion water heater, the old one having given up the ghost after less than four years. Two problems arise, one of which I don’t really care about. I seem to remember, long ago in a distant galaxy, frequently getting embroiled over cocoa and crumpets on whether leaving an [...]

We are legion, the folks who recognize that the Mac is not a Typewriter, and yet want — crave, actually — a blank piece of carbonless copy paper with its vertical lines at 40 and 60 characters on which we honed our skills, such as they are. So when I read Kevin Lipe’s Guest Post at Forkbombr, [...]

I may regret this, but having learned to spread little goodies to followers through Google Reader, I thought I would send them back here to The Mother Ship. Over there, below the Random Photograph. To do that, however, I have to make them available to all and sundry, rather than just to my friends and [...]

They therefore asked the US Environmental Protection Agency for permission to dispense with the refuges and instead begin releasing sterile moths, which then conducted mathematical modelling that showed such a strategy could indeed work. SciDev.Net has the scoop on smarter moths, and don’t even think about editing it now; I have the screenshot.

After whinging a bit about not being able to keep up here, and contemplating some other platform, I did a bit of looking around and was reminded of this WordPress feature, which I seldom used before: Press It « WordPress Codex. It does make a quick posting pretty easy. Maybe all I need to do to [...]