This guy is working on some very cool stuff. Here is a video showing a head tracking device for computer displays that he made using a wiimote. Frickin’ cool.

Charles Nutter:It is a glorious day in JRuby-land, for the compiler is now complete.
That is some cool stuff. I think it is very cool that while a lot of people are pitting Java and Ruby against one another, that there are other people making an effort to bring them together.
In related news, I’m taking […]

Too many cooks© Carina S

Paul Krill:
Can forming six committees result in simplification? OASIS believes this is the way to go with its SOA efforts.
Forming six separate committees for this effort does seem to be a bit of overkill. I like the idea of SCA, and I want it to gain some traction. I’m […]

SOA Facts: “Guns don’t kill people, the SOA WS-* stack kills people.”
If you laugh at any of these then you are in fact a geek. Welcome to the club.
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Call me an eager beaver, but I downloaded the new Firefox, which you can get from here now. So far so good. I was quite pleased that only 3 of my extensions were not compatible, and only one of those, LiveHTTPHeaders, is one I’ll miss.
I haven’t really played with it much yet, but […]

I am apparently normal, as I vastly prefer matte laptop screens to glossy ones. Seems like most everyone else does too.
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It is hard to read a lot of things about SCA and  WS-* and then try to twist it into a REST style view.  I keep having to read REST articles to get my feet grounded again.
This is a good one.
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Well, I realize that I am a few steps behind some people, but this weekend I decided to take advantage of North Carolina’s tax free weekend and Ashley’s status as a “student” to get a 17″ iMac tax free with educational discounts bundled with a free (after rebate) iPod Nano and HP printer/scanner.  It was […]

Well, a few weeks ago at BarCampRDU, Andy Hunt of the Pragmatic Programmers talked about writing three pages longhand every morning and how it was “good for your brain.”  I think that the reasoning is that is occupies some of the “logic” part of your brain in such a way that the “creative” part of […]

I found this site via digg, but rather than privately bookmark it, I thought I’d bookmark it here to share :)
It has a very good list of the best extensions for Firefox, amoung other things.
Firefox Your Way
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