Ben Pieratt says: “Creation is entirely dependent on ownership. Ownership not as a percentage of equity, but as a measure of your ability to change things for the better. To build and grow and fail and learn. This is no small thing. Creativity is the manifestation of lateral thinking, and without tangible results, it becomes [...]
Category Archives: geek
Geeky Grammar
Posted by svec on February 10, 2009
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Holy Parenthetical Emoticons, Batman! I’m glad that Randall has the guts to tackle the tough issues facing the world today: emoticons in parenthesis. Check out the comic. Since I’m starting my own copyediting and proofreading business, this issue is particularly timely and relevant for me. Randall outlines the basic options: blah (or blah :) blah (or [...]
M&M’s Musings
Posted by svec on January 21, 2009
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We have an M&M’s-filled candy machine at work and we wondered: What do you call it when you get exactly 6 M&M’s in a single turn of the dispenser, one of each color? M&M Yahtzee? Full House? And how about when you get more than 6 M&M’s in a single turn of the dispenser, with [...]
Presentation Presence
Posted by svec on December 17, 2008
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A software vendor gave a sales presentation at my office today. The vendor sent two people to present – a sales guy and an engineer. The sales guy started the pitch with an overview of the software. Sounds great, says us, but we need a bunch of technical details to know if it’s worth pursuing. [...]
The Death Of the Desktop
Posted by svec on June 17, 2008
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And no, this “death of the desktop” post is not about how mobile devices or the browser is taking over the world – it’s about taking a step back and rethinking how we actually use computers (desktop, mobile or otherwise), and then trying to take a more usable step forward. Thanks to Chris Jones for [...]
Why bother with RSS?
Posted by svec on March 30, 2008
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(cut-n-pasted from my reply to a “Business of Software” forum question) I resisted using an RSS reader for quite a while, mainly because it was “the new hotness” that I didn’t see any use for. What made me start using it? I read a fair number of websites, and I like to know when something [...]
Funky Watches
Posted by svec on February 29, 2008
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Watches designed for hard core geeks: http://www.tokyoflash.com/en/watches/1/
Understanding C pointers: Part 1
Posted by svec on January 1, 2008
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As I said in “Understanding C pointers: Part 0,” I’m going to try to explain how C pointers work. Let’s start with the basics. Here’s some simple C code: int x = 23; int y = x; You can think of each variable as a box which holds the value of that variable. So in [...]
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