I ordered some scuba gear during the sales last weekend. One of the items I purchased came with a free 1W LED flashlight (the yellow one on this pageYesterday at work-just for fun-I hooked the two lines going to the LED to my oscilloscope. Below are a couple of the screenshots I took of the signal ( Read more... )

Go Sensus!

FlexNet Saves Gahanna Customers Thousands of Dollars

The whole series (first season) is on Hulu until Dec. 9. You should watch. Very funny.

Better Off Ted - Hulu

There are things we are supposed to do that we don't. Exercise. Avoiding fast foods. Use the assert() macro. Exercise is a real pain that requires time and effort. Fast food can save time, and is carefully designed to seduce us. But asserts take little time or effort, and yet are as rare as the spotted owl. The Linux kernel sports just one thousand ( Read more... )

A while back, I mentioned National Geographic Adventure Paper.

After some more use, and more submergings, I have additional information to add.

At least with my HP ink, over time, the red starts to bleed and fade, and blue starts to show through onto the other side of the paper.

Sometime, I plan to really check this out. It's so exciting!

LLVM 2.6 Release Notes

I think this is a neat C-preprocessor trick for implementing binary literals. Unlike 0b0101 which some compilers support and others support via a patch (gcc), this method is portable:

Barr Code: Binary Literals in C

Here's the interesting part:

// Internal Macros ( Read more... )

I just did a “search” for this regexp:
Num:(\d+),

And had it “replace” with the “return value of a beanshell snippet”:
"Num:" + _1 + ", // 0x" + Integer.toHexString(Integer.parseInt(_1))

So, it changed:
Num:80,
to:
Num:80, // 0x50

Cool!

jEdit

Here's something neat I ran across:

What the font?

You can upload an image of some text and it will guess what font is being used. Neat!

Behold Cambria:

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