While I’ll admit that one too many lattes have occasionally put me on the Tasmanian Devil side of twitchy, I’m not sure I agree with Starbucks attempt this morning to depress the hell out of me with the message I got on the side of my cup: “You are lost“? Wow, I pay $4 for a cup...

I don’t normally put code in my blogs, but today’s an exception. I’m working on an awesomely cool project (which I’d love to talk about but it’s currently in stealth mode). This project requires substantial file manipulation at the binary level: literally reading through...

I’ve been reading Edward Tufte since my lynda.com days when I was the token geek trainer among some amazing artists and designers. A couple of years spent working with folks who live and breathe color, layout and typography can’t help rub off somewhat. I’m still a coder at heart—sure...

There’s a few software companies who have particular sections of hell reserved for them. And no, I don’t mean the various creators of spyware and virii. They’re vile scum indeed, but at least they’re actively malicious, without pretense. I mean so-called “legitimate”...

Like a lot of geeks, I’m a big fan of David Allen’s Getting Things Done . It’s been the only thing that’s ever worked even remotely well for me, and I’ve tried to swallow a lot of different time management Kool-Aid over the years. So farewell Franklin Covey, so long Filofax...

The past few weeks at Interface , we’ve been having an odd behavior where everyone’s PC in the building gets redirected to the localized German site for Google ( http://www.google.de ) when they first access Google.com. And no, it’s not a spyware redirection trick, nor a virus: this...

...but then I'd have to kill you. Or someone would... Just finished a couple of days training with Michael Palermo in Los Alamos National Laboratory , where we were training .NET to some of the programmers and researchers at the labs. Los Alamos is where they built the first A-bomb, and it's still essentially...

It's an interesting idea: write a computer book in the guise of a novel. A new Syngress book, "The Mezonic Agenda" is a story about a US presidential election being manipulated through rigged e-voting machines (as part of an enormous conspiracy, obviously) and contained in the story is a great deal of...

I think there must be a series of steps that everyone runs through when they start using Bluetooth. At first, you think it's great: "it's the best thing since sliced bread! I can sync my PocketPC wirelessly!" or "I can use a wireless headset with my cellphone!" and you begin to believe the hype that...

Next on my Cool Tools list is the Pzizz . It's a tiny MP3 player designed to do one thing only: to relax. You simply turn it on, set a time (between 10 and 60 minutes) and it creates a guided relaxation audio program that's different every time you listen to it. The memory card has a library of superbly...