February 28, 2012
Eco Hype
Good morning! I dawdled a bit but eventually head out to work. No need to do any school dropoffs. I listened to LotR (Chapter 2) on the drive down. When I got here, the electrician was re-wiring my lights with a switch. The sensor mechanism was too unreliable, often shutting off my lights as I sat relatively still in coding/debugging sessions.
Congrats to HP on really innovating in the All-in-One workstation market. See the new HP Z1 workstation.
<vent>If it takes 15-30 seconds to load a single weblog entry on high speed broadband, you're doing it wrong.</vent> There, I said it. It's one of my pet peeves when moving from entry to entry makes you feel like you're back on a dialup modem. Broadband is supposed to make things load faster. You needn't overload your site with so many plugins and bits of bling that it overcompensates for the extra speed. Of course I'm very biased as my site loads in about a second.
While I love Ford, they are going a bit marketing hype with their "Ecoboost" engines. These engines combine turbo charging with direct injection. Do folks know what the "TDI" in Volkswagen's TDI line of engines mean? Turbocharged Direct Injection. Most VW TDI's (like mine) also feature an intercooler to further boost the turbo's efficacy. They just don't have Ford's marketing department coming up with clever names like "Ecoboost".
Asus drops quad-core NVidia Tegra 3 in favor of dual-core Qualcomm SnapDragon S4 in its new Transformer tablet (related link)
Via @BillDonaghy: “Love is at war with hate, betrayal, selfishness, and all love’s enemies. Love fights. Ask any parent.” — Peter Kreeft
Apple finally adds Command Line Tools for Xcode. (related link) Much lighter than the full Xcode environment.
<snark>Comic: The author of the Windows file copy dialog box visits some friends… </snark>
Those WSJ writers and their techno pun'ish headlines: “TomTom Warns of Rough Road”. My friend Craig Cottingham had an even better headline: “TomTom on quarterly earnings: ‘Recalculating…’ ”
Via @Snapdragon: HTC reveals One X and S with Snapdragon S4 CPU at Mobile World Congress 2012 (full story)
Video: Qualcomm showing off more augmented reality stuff. This time with Sesame Street.
Michael Moore boasted that his friends were planning on voting for Rick Santorum (in Operation Hilarity). Wait. Michael Moore has friends? Perhaps the news media is missing the real headline. I know, it's hardly a charitable thing to say. It just seems that everything that he says is loaded with venom.
Way back in ancient times when I was in grad school studying parallel processing on multi-CPU workstations, we used to love to play with rendering fractals. So it was with a sense of deja vu that I'm seeing it happen in massive parallel hardware in our GPU. (read more and see pretty pictures)
Nashua Telegraph writer Arrigo Kristin wrote about an interesting way to avoid chimney drafts & heat leaks: the chimney balloon.
Didn't leave work until after 6:30. Caught up on news with my dad the entire drive north. Had a reheated dinner when I got home and watched a bit of Family Matters with the kids. Told Michelle and Abby about "Urkel" and "Laura Ingalls" being on the upcoming "Dancing with the Stars" which inspired them to look up the rest of the cast.
Got the boys tucked in bed with their prayers. Now just waiting for Claire's ‘bring me home’ call and hoping it isn't as late as last night's was.
Picked up Claire at quarter to ten. I am wiped out! Good night all!
“If you forgive men their transgressions,
your heavenly Father will forgive you.
But if you do not forgive men,
neither will your Father forgive your transgressions.” — Matthew 6