Entries Tagged as 'Meta'

Monday, April 11th, 2011

Speaking at the AMD Fusion Developer Summit – June

If you are planning on attending the AMD Fusion Developer Summit in Bellevue, WA in June, come see me talk about Pixel Bender (probably for the last time!) with Bob Archer. Here is the description of the session: Pixel Bender is a domain-specific image processing language created by the Adobe Image Foundation, and includes a [...]

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

Wondering if you should be taking Potassium Iodide for radiation?

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Thursday, September 9th, 2010

Upcoming talks and events

(all times/dates are PST) I have a few conference talks and such in the next couple weeks, so I thought I’d send out some pointers. If you are attending the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, I’ll be speaking on a panel discussing how to educate the next generation of computer scientists for the new [...]

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

A tale of two customer support experiences

I’ve been putting together a mac mini-based home theater PC. I was going to post on it when I got it finished, but instead I have a different story. Putting it together, I bought a few components and two different ones failed within two weeks (two weeks of each other and two weeks of opening [...]

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

How I know that I’m still an engineer and entrepreneur at heart

We were looking at a demo of an agile-project tool yesterday. The tool itself was pretty good, but I just kept thinking about how I could write it myself and how much fun that would be. Then, once I looked at the cost of the license, I had to restrain myself from taking a week [...]

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

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Monday, May 11th, 2009

links are busted right now

Working to figure out what happened and get it fixed ASAP. [update] we’re good now.

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

An idle thought on date naming in the new millenium

Let us pretend that you have a yearly festival, Awesome Fest. You’ve been doing it forever. Awesome Fest ’87 was insane, this year’s Awesome Fest ’09 will be crazy. What do you call next year’s Awesome Fest? Awesome Fest ’10 sounds weird to me. Don’t you need to start using he whole year for a [...]

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

My Favorite Posts of 2008

As is my tradition, I’m including my favorite posts of 2008 here. These are the posts that I like the best, they are not necessarily the most popular. Thanks for continuing to read my nonsense and ramblings, and here is to more in 2009! Why Live Mesh will fail 64 bits, Adobe, Apple and Microsoft. [...]

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

Happy new year, here is to a better one

I realized today that I haven’t posted anything here in quite a while. Maybe it was a normal ebb in the blogging stream, but there is more to it than that. Those that are parents are well aware of the ability of an a child to pull your head out of the echo chamber of [...]