Old languages
I have a friend who used to code in an ancient and archaic language that was used for things like starting fires and planning assaults on the wooly mammoth. You know -- an old language. [tags: language old age] [icbm: work]
Make Magazine: Building a Myth TV Box part 1
A guide on how to build a myth tv box. I know a few people who might be interested in this... [tags: mythtv tivo make oreilly magazine howto] [icbm: dcs]
How to get your podcast into the iTunes store
Make magazine does it again, this time with information on how to get your podcast into the iTunes store. [tags: iTunes pod cast podcast] [icbm: home]
Speech recognition hardware
I've always assumed speech recognition was a software problem. I was wrong. [tags: speech recognition hardware] [icbm: dcs]
Note to self: if hiding heroin, don’t use cocaine
Boing Boing post about Heroin hidden inside a block of Cocaine. I wish I'd thought of that! [tags: drugs heroin cocaine] [icbm: work]
Project Aardvark unmasked!
Side pilot is the output of Project Aardvark. Take one software startup run my an ex-Microsofty who is opinionated on software development (Joel of course). Take a few interns. Some open source software. Tabasco. Rub together... [tags: project aardvark joel side pilot software opensource] [icbm: dcs]
Starting a startup? Announce it now!
Apparently stealth start ups suck. Or something. [tags: stealth startup] [icbm: work]
Wanted: Someone who knows enough about ImageMagick to do some reviewing for me
I'm writing some stuff about ImageMagick at the moment, and it would be nice to have someone do some technical review of the stuff I'm writing to make sure I'm not a big liar or anything. There's a possibility of being paid, but you need to know about ImageMagick, Linux and imaging in general. If you're interested, then you should mail me. [tags: help wanted]
Chocolate fudge self saucing pudding
I've talked before about cooking here, for example by my barbecued salmon recipe turned out ok. So here's the dessert I've been meaning to write up for a while: Ingredients for the pudding: 1/2 cup of self raising flour 1/2 teaspoon of salt (I usually just use a pinch) 1 tablespoon of cocoa 90 grams of sugar (I usually use raw sugar) 1/4 cup of milk (62.5 ml) 1 tablespoon of melted butter Mix all of those in a bowl. The mix will look pretty dry when you're done, but don't panic. Ingredients for the sauce: 1/2 cup of brown sugar 1 tablespoon of cocoa 210 ml of hot water Mix those in the oven container. I use a casserole pot. Pour in the other mixture. Chuck in the oven for 45 minutes at 180 degrees Celsius. You know it's cooked when a skewer comes out dry (except for any sauce which might get on it from the bottom. Take out of oven. Put into your bowl. Pour cream on. Eat. This version serves two. [tags: food dessert chocolate pudding recipe]
Collisions in MD5 sums
This is kind of a big deal. Cryptographic has functions are used in a lot of computer science circles to take a large document and turn it into a relatively small description of the document. The transformation has a couple of interesting properties: It's one way -- which means that I can know that I have your document, without checking the contents. There are secure file systems out there that when you give it a file give you back the ID for the file, and that's how you access it in the future. Don't know the ID? You can't possibly have seen the file. They're meant to be unique -- you can't possibly have no overlap between bazillions of documents and the comparatively few IDs available, but it's meant to be very hard to get two documents with the same ID. This is commonly used for CD downloads for instance where people want to be sure that you got the file intended completely, or to make sure that you're not storing information twice. EMC for instance has an email storage system which only saves an email if the MD5 ID is new, otherwise it must be a duplicate. It turns…