I’ve always liked my keyboard… as a kid, I had horrible handwriting, and got admonished by teachers for it. (note: going to Architecture school cured that, architectural lettering is very handy to ...

Thought I’d hijack my own DL to show you something fun…. (and send to LI office) I did a little project with my Arduino Duemilanove I made an intranet site to send text to a 20x4 LCD screen sitti...

width=”550” height=”167”></a></p> <p>What… you don’t know your alphabet?  Didn’t know that “DF-Final” is sorted between “DF4” and “DF5”?   </p> <p>Does it annoy you...

Quick and easy tips… for maps It is no secret that I love keyboard shortcuts… I hate having to move my hands away from the keyboard just to do some small movement with the mouse and go back. DUM...

So I've wanted to hike the Long Trail in Vermont since I was a kid. it is the oldest long distance hiking trail in the United States, spanning 272 miles from the southern Vermont border in Massachu...

I’ve been doing some interviewing for open positions at Microsoft… and one of the portions of any MS interview is usually a coding question to gauge the level of algorithm maturity of the candidate...

In my last post on fighting off a trojan horse virus, I mentioned that I decided to protect my newly installed OS by attempting a foray into the world of virtual machines.  My reasons for doing thi...

Last weekend, a virus got through all my defenses… ironic considering where I work (for a MS team that works on server security). My home PC was under siege for about 24hrs, after [someone] clicked...

IEEE - “Hands On” by: Amal Graafstra Such a cool thing to do… I think biometric/implantation ID systems hold lots of interesting possibilities of what we can control. A friend of mine is already t...

Piaggio ready to release 170 mpg hybrid two and three wheel scooters NO Way!! Very cool machine… kind of reminds me of an eco-friendlier puny version of the Chrysler Tomahawk! I like the idea tha...