In Starbucks the other day, I was sitting with my laptop just trying to get some work done, and enjoying my morning coffee. I soon noticed there was a cute girl sitting alone across from me, on the other side of Starbucks with her laptop. Being fairly busy, I didn’t think much of it at first, … Read more
I just got back from Nvidia’s 2010 GPU Technology Conference in San Jose California. I had an amazing trip, and am thankful that I got to go, as it was my first visit to California as well as my first trade show attendance. [Side Note: The afternoon before the conference, I took Caltrain up to … Read more
I recently stumbled upon the reading “On The Shortness of Life,” a famous letter by Lucius Seneca. A good overview of the reading can be found here. Here are a few pull quotes from the letter that happen to relate with some of my thoughts this past week. Present time is very brief, so brief, indeed, … Read more
After installing the new plug-in registry for GIMP, I stumbled upon the amazing National Geographic Script. It is incredible! This script simulates high quality, vivid photos – like the ones from the National Geographic magazine. It uses a configurable mixture of shadow recovery, sharpening, local contrast, and various color overlay layers. The script is buried … Read more
Over the years of installing, updating, re-installing Ubuntu, I have slowly crafted a decent “fresh install” bash script to help setup and configure Ubuntu after a clean install. This script is ever evolving, and still doesn’t capture everything I want it to, but it does knock out a giant chunk of things to do, automatically … Read more
I was curious about how much gas was actually saved when idling my car with the A/C off, so I gathered some fuel efficiency numbers using the MPGuino I made for my 2002 Honda Civic. The MPGuino can display the instant Gallons Per Hour (GPH) consumed, and this measurement was used for these tests. Testing Notes: All tests were … Read more
I stopped listening to the radio many years ago. I just can’t take it. As a teenager, I had two favorite alternative rock stations I listened to. I could turn on the radio at any time, and it was almost guaranteed that one of those stations would be playing a song I liked. Ah, those … Read more
These are just a few examples fresh in my head to write about. The Simple Powerline Remote Interactive Monitor and Enforcer (SPRIME) started as a simple open source class project. It turned out to be much more… The GaTech Convergence Innovation Competition happened to be going on at the same time. Our SPRIME project technically … Read more
I just upgraded from the original Droid to the Droid X. Since PCWorld’s article comparing the original Droid and the new Droid X is just sad, I decided to do my own comparison. I’ll do my best to list some first impressions, and highlight the key differences between the phones, based on actually owning and using … Read more
Yesterday, I was stoked about FeedSpeak getting posted on the front page of the xda-developers site! This was totally unexpected and definitely made my day. A few days ago, a friend had recommended that I advertise the app in the xda-developers forum, so I created a simple post for FeedSpeak Pro. After posting though, I learned … Read more