Good morning all! It looks like it should be a nice day here in the Souhegan Valley. Currently it's only 46°F but should be sunny and ~70°F today. Going to drop my girls off at middle school and head down to the office.
Renew your decision each morning, with a very determined 'Serviam!', I will serve you, Lord! Renew your resolution not to give in, not to give way to laziness or idleness; to face up to your duties with greater hope and more optimism, convinced that if we are defeated in some small skirmish we can overcome this setback by making a sincere act of love. -- St. Josemaría Escrivá.
Smooth, sunny drive in. Offered a Rosary for the health of my wife and mother. Then listened to more "Anna Karenina". Gettin' near the end of it now, only a few days more I suspect.
Found root cause of an obscure bug this afternoon. Feelin' happy it is conquered. Time to log out, head north, and enjoy a weekend with the wife and kidlets.
Bookmarks I made today:
OpenGL(R) ES 2.0 Programming Guide
Comment: Oh the exciting page-turner books I buy! ;-p http://amzn.com/0321502795
Excerpt: OpenGL ES 2.0 is the industry’s leading software interface and graphics library for rendering sophisticated 3D graphics on handheld and embedded devices. With OpenGL ES 2.0, the full programmability of shaders is now available on small and portable devices—including cell phones, PDAs, consoles, appl...
New Super Mario Galaxy 2 for Nintendo Wii
Comment: Only about 2 weeks until release. Not that Abby is counting or anything like that... Some great new teaser videos are available at the site. Could they pack in a few more superlatives in the product name? Was Über already taken?
Excerpt: Super Mario Galaxy 2 is the latest sequel to your favorite game. Mario teams up with Yoshi to conquer the galaxy. Learn how to team up with them here.
The Gift of Masculinity
Comment: A good balance from Mary Beth Bonacci, speaker and writer
Excerpt: Pope JPII talked a lot about women's gifts. I think we should talk about men's gifts, too.
Oil Spill vs Red Ink Spill
Comment: The curmudgeon in me wishes the media and politicians fretted as much about red ink as they appear to about oil.
Excerpt: by cartoonist Michael Ramirez
iPhone 3G gets an Android port to call its own
Comment: I can almost imagine the army of lawyers if things were reversed and you saw iPhoneOS running on an HTC phone.
Excerpt: David Wang, has now stepped his game up to the iPhone 3G, which has been outfitted with an almost complete implementation of Android. The groundwork has been laid and it too should be ready for some unholy Apple plus Google action within the next few days
Potato gun, lightning, and sonic magic: Unconventional speed tests for the browser
Comment: Cute! Compared to tables of load times and such, Google chose a very Rube Goldberg-esque way to show their Chrome browser speed. Recommended for its entertainment value.
Excerpt: Yesterday, we released a new beta for Chrome, and teamed up with a few creative minds to bring Chrome’s speed to life with an early preview of a series of fun, unconventional speed tests for the browser. ...
Android LEGO Rubik's Speedcuber
Comment: Since I'm on the topic of interesting Google Android hacks, check out this video where an Android coder combined with LEGOs build a Rubik's Cube solver.
Excerpt: This Rubik's Cube solver was designed and programmed using an ARM Powered Android Motorola Droid mobile phone, a LEGO Mindstorms NXT and lots of yellow LEGO technic pieces! Come and see the Speedcuber ...
IEEE 2010 Medal of Honor Winner: Andrew J. Viterbi
Comment: Congrats to the co-founder of Qualcomm.
Excerpt: It’s not easy to reconcile the mild-mannered Viterbi with the tech titan who made fundamental contributions to Wi-Fi, 3G cellular and digital-satellite communications, speech recognition, and DNA analysis. Who cofounded Qualcomm. And, oh yeah, came up with one of the most important mathematical conc...
Chuck Shirt: Buy Chuck Shirts and Captain Awesome at 80sTees
Comment: 54 days until Scott's Birthday. I'm just sayin'...
Doctor Who: The Girl in the Fireplace
Comment: Going to try to watch this episode before I fall asleep...
Excerpt: "The Girl in the Fireplace" is the fourth episode of the second series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was first broadcast on 6 May 2006, and is the only episode in the 2006 series written by Steven Moffat. ...