Visual comments in code

ideas 15 October 2008 | 1 Comment

an idea i had a few years ago, bumped into it while skimming through my documents and figured its better online than offline. Visual Comments – Upload a Document to Scribd

car details

etc 30 August 2008 | 2 Comments

we were looking to buy a car and rather than dumping the results in the recycle-bin here they are for the web-crawlers: * trip calculations are based on a 102m trip to SJ and back with gallon price at $4.3

Playing with Yahoo Pipes

hack 17 August 2008 | 2 Comments

So I was sitting this Sunday afternoon, getting pissed that there’s no easy way to monitor replies on Twitter. I talk with people there and there’s no serious built-in feature in Twitter that will notify me when people reply to me, which, other than direct messages, is exactly when I want to jump back in [...]

IM protocols, do they support dynamic embedded images?

ideas 9 July 2008 | 2 Comments

here’s a scenario i’d like to have: i’m chatting with someone on IM i want to show him something i’m seeing on my screen i hit ctrl+apple+shift+whatever, get an overlay control to crop some part of my screen click my mouse, boom that part gets cropped and sent to my chat partner my chat partner [...]

Multi-Core Software

7 July 2008 | 3 Comments

It’s a known fact that CPU cores are not going to see high increases in their singular power. The alternative chip-makers have come up with is multi-core – the poor man’s SMP. It seems like future CPUs will be trying to maintain Moore’s law using more cores rather than more singular power. Does this change [...]