Foo Fighter
A bit of trivia for you... In the back of my mind, I've been curious about the origin of the name "Foo Fighters" for Dave Grohl's post-Nirvana band. And now I've stumbled on an explanation on Wikipedia. Turns out it's an...
Author: Marc
activeCollab – open source project management and collaboration tool
Free and open source (PHP) web-based project management tool; very similar to Basecamp from 37signals. http://www.activecollab.com/ There's a nice screencast on the site that shows you what kinds of things it can do....
Boost application performance using asynchronous I/O
A short article from IBM developerWorks on using the POSIX aio extensions, which were added in the 2.5 series of Linux kernels. Boost application performance using asynchronous I/O Related books...
Lessons in electric circuits
A free series of textbooks on the subjects of electricity and electronics. Lessons in electric circuits
Flashing LED circuit
I've been wanting to learn more about electronics for a while. My wife bought me one of those Radio Shack electronic learning lab things as a gift a few months ago and I finally got the chance to try it out. I built the first...
An evening in Berkeley
We went to our favorite Italian restaurant Locanda Olmo. Nicole asked for her leftovers to be packed up. They must've run out of those plastic clamshell containers, because they came back with her food in a ceramic bowl with...
New bikes, flat tires
On Saturday, Nicole and I bought new bikes from the local bike shop. At first, I thought I could get by with the bike I had, but I noticed that the tires were shredded and the bike had a bit of rust and wasn't as comfortable as...