I've decided to move this blog to Github Pages . Mostly, this is so I can write posts in markdown, and have code snippets without a lo...

YouTube channel, College Humor , has a game show series called ' Um, Actually ' - a game of nerdy corrections, and general nerd triv...

Background At work, we've been working on a Python API for IBM's Spectrum Scale (GPFS) filesystem. The API is well tested, wit...

Time was when I needed a hair cut, I'd go at noon on a weekday, when the barber's is typically empty. One of the perks of being unem...

A few months ago, my friend was telling me about this mobile game he wanted to make. He, and some of our other friends, are teachers, and th...

In a previous pair of blogs , I designed some clock widgets for Android, using Zooper . At the end, I said that if I ever got a smart watch...