Entries from December 2005

Merry Christmas!

Date December 25, 2005

Or Happy Holidays, whichever you feel is more appropriate. I think the so-called “War on Christmas” is a bunch of hooey, personally, particularly since most of the evidence I’ve seen tossed around was either taken out of context or a fabrication to begin with.
Regardless of what you believe, who you believe in, or how [...]

A bit of minor math

Date December 13, 2005

True or False?
The shortest distance between two points is always a straight line.
True or False?
The shortest traversable distance between two points is always a straight line.
As I played with Google’s new service Google Transit that overlays public transportation routes and schedules on top of Google’s already-amazing Google Maps service, I discovered this was not always [...]

Windy Wednesday

Date December 7, 2005

I’d explain my title, but I think those of you in the Portland area know exacxtly what I mean by it.
I completely forgot to note the release of Mozilla Firefox v1.5 with my last post. This is the first new version since its release last year with some additional functionality that builds upon the [...]

Happy December

Date December 1, 2005

It’s been awhile, I know. I’ve been busy at work trying desperately to get this project that’s been on my desk for three months done, and at home I’m dogged by a lack of computer. Well, I still have my laptop, but it’s extremely difficult to find motivation to do anything at all [...]