http://www.extinguishedscholar.com/wpglob Powered by work over time. Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:22:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After years of threats and murmurs I've finally replaced this here thing with a new version of itself. It has a simpler engine, and an updated look, and a new URL. But it's still just a glob of nerdishness. I hope you'll update your feed subscription to http://n.exts.ch/?format=atom for the most ... http://www.extinguishedscholar.com/wpglob/?p=1205 The crew at &yet is an honest team, a friendly team, a world-class team — a Good team! — and yet for some reason it never could stay feeling like my team. So I never became comfortable inflicting my ideas upon it. After so many months of alternately trying to change and ... http://www.extinguishedscholar.com/wpglob/?p=1183 It's time for me to again dabble in dreams. Dreams that won't die, though I'm not sure why. "So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do." Today I was given the ... http://www.extinguishedscholar.com/wpglob/?p=1173 An up-coming new hobby reminded me of the CHDK (Canon Hack Development Kit) project. I realized that my old Canon 350D body was ripe for some experimentation, since (due to a flaky shutter release button) I use it only as a backup to my T1i these days. As it turns out, ... http://www.extinguishedscholar.com/wpglob/?p=1155 Web apps are not cross-platform apps. If the battle is whether Apple's tools or HTML5 is the best way to write iPhone apps, whether Google's frameworks or HTML5 is the best way to write Android apps, whether Windows Presentation Foundation or HTML5 is the best way to write Windows apps — ... http://www.extinguishedscholar.com/wpglob/?p=1125 I wondered why I don't really fit in, am not really a part of, any particular professional community. What community could I be a part of? I listed. All were too this or too that. Too young, too old. Too clueless, too proud. Too pointless, too advanced. I would refuse to ... http://www.extinguishedscholar.com/wpglob/?p=1115 Last night with family. It's 12:37 midwestern time, less than three hours until we get up to load their van and ride to the airport in the dark. I roll over, waiting to even feel sleepy, and must have let out a sigh. "Ha! What you say, Daddy?" giggles Tobias, suddenly ... http://www.extinguishedscholar.com/wpglob/?p=1098 A few weeks after writing that personal computers are no longer quite what they could be, I came across an article declaring that The Personal Computer Is Dead — with the implication being that this is not quite what it should be. Jonathan Zittrain, in this article (which you should read) and ... http://www.extinguishedscholar.com/wpglob/?p=1077 I love the history of personal computers — we've gone from the Altair 8800 to the Kindle Fire. We've gained so much, but I worry we've lost sight of something along the way. - - We've gone from blatantly complicated devices that Only Nerds Control, to superficially simple devices...that Only Nerds Control. - Somehow it is ... http://www.extinguishedscholar.com/wpglob/?p=1048 Today I needed to send some passwords to someone over the internet again. The recipient recommended using PGP/GPG to send an encrypted email, but unfortunately that protocol appears to be quite a hacky hassle if you use the built-in email clients on Apple's (and apparently Microsoft's) platforms. Fortunately, iOS 5 just ... http://www.extinguishedscholar.com/wpglob/?p=1018