Author: Marc

Accessing C functions from CLISP

It's pretty impressive how easy it is to call C functions from Lisp, once you know the proper FFI voodoo. For example, this is how I accessed the standard C library function time from CLISP on my Linux system. (ffi:def-call-out...

TiVo

New Series 2 TiVo box with 2 Tuners and Built-In Ethernet

There's a new TiVo box on the block: New Series 2 TiVo box with 2 Tuners and Built-In Ethernet There's not a ton of info available, except that Amazon lists these product features: Does not support recording from two digital...

Mac

TurboTax 2005 for Mac sucks

TurboTax on the Mac seems to be a big pile of garbage. First as I was importing my investment income from the Internet, I noticed that it downloaded all the correct amounts from my institution but then added duplicate entries for...

General

Bay Area housing market in decline?

It's become apparent that properties are staying on the market much longer than they used to - weeks and sometimes months. But so far, prices have either dropped a little or not at all it seems, depending on where you look....

General

Patching Bot Check plugin for WP 2.0

Having upgraded to WordPress 2.0 the other day, I knew that something had gone horribly wrong with the Bot Check plugin when I logged into my dashboard today and saw 33 comments in the moderation queue. A quick test revealed of...

General

Manresa

On Sunday, Nicole took me to a pretty well known restaurant called Manresa (in Los Gatos) for my birthday. (more…)...

PalmProgramming

Alternative Palm programming

I've wanted to try my hand at Palm programming for a while, but have never really gotten into it. Perhaps part of this is due to the fact that the "official" way to program Palm apps is using C and doing low-level coding of event...