December 2007

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• Rants

  Blog is the new Brag

  12.30.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  A thought occurred to me while I was finishing up a piece of Java programming. I was thinking “I can’t wait to blog about this!”
  How strange a thought, so unfamiliar to me. The second thought made it as the title of this rant. In one sense we are all very particular about the things we [...]

• Multi-touch, Research, User Interfaces

  The Why of Multitouch

  12.24.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  If you are in doubt whether you should think of multitouch technology as Very Exciting, a Major User Interface improvement, or even a Much Faster Way To Operate Your Computer, read on.
  I’ve had some interesting discussions with hard-core gamers about multitouch technology. I learned that they were indeed doubting most of the above. To a [...]

• DIY, Research, User Interfaces

  Microsoft DIY hand-held optical device

  12.24.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Patrick Baudisch is a research engineer at Microsoft Research with a lot of cool stuff to his name. He and two of his colleagues wrote a paper about putting the electronics of an ordinary optical mouse inside a fluffy pouch and triggering the sensor by squeezing and pushing the optical electronics around as you would [...]

• DIY, Multi-touch, User Interfaces

  Multitouch Mayhem

  12.19.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I’m a BIG believer in Multitouch technology. While most people are busy peering at the fluff in their belly-buttons, this type of technology is not only going to rock the consumer market, it’s going to rock the IT services market as well.
  And I for one am going to rock with it. I’ll tell you how, [...]

• Rants

  Google Notebook

  12.19.07 | Permalink | Comments Off

  Help, I’m turning into a Googler. I POP all my accounts using GMail (good spam filter too), store administrative junk (invoices and such) on my GMail Drive, and I even started using Google Notebook on a regular basis.
  First it was because I needed a safe place to store my favorites, as my workstation at the office [...]

• Energy

  Hydrogen boost

  12.19.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Today I researched the net a bit concerning HHO boosting technology. I stumbled upon a website called “Water4Gas” which was set up as a typical one-page shop, offering a $97 set of e-books telling you how to modify your car to use HHO gas (hydrogen + oxygen as produced by simple electrolysis) to lower your [...]

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