Category: Asides

An interesting watch company. I particularly like the binary watch face.

There is only one thing that I hate more than a cold…and that is celery! But at least you can spit that out!
~Jamie Luttrell

Here’s a demo of a simple technique to fill out fields in a Word document. This looks like it would work well if you need to do some type of programmatic mail merge that goes beyond what you can do simply by using Word and Excel. Unfortunately it looks like it is dependent on Windows to run the .exe file.

My 17 inch MacBook Pro is coming up on the three year mark so I thought I’d take a look at the new version.  Last time I upgraded I went from 1.5 Ghz to 2.4 Ghz. However, the fasters 17 inch available today is 2.53 Ghz. It appears we are really seeing the limit of Moore’s Law when it comes to the raw processor speed. The newer processors do have other updates that make them faster, but still nothing like the speed difference between a computer purchased in 2000 and 2003.

Wooki is open source servers software for creating and editing documents.  It looks like it is kind of like a Wiki, but a bit more structured for creating actual documents.  For example, it can export to PDFs, let people make editing comments that don’t show up in the actual document, etc.  It is still under development, but it looks like it could be a very nice system for creating textbooks or other documents that need to be a bit more formal and “bookish” than what you tend to get with a Wiki. You can demo it on their site, but I think the idea is that you’d host it on your own server.