Yesterday morning I got up an hour early at 5am and after some breakfast I loaded up my bike and pedaled through the still-dark Sausalito. Going south, following the waterfront and then the steep climb up Alexander Avenue to Highway 101 and the Golden Gate Bridge. This was no ordinary morning and not my usual [...]
Here’s my post for the 25th anniversary of the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, which still covers most of my feelings about that machine. 30 years is a ridiculously long time in our fast-moving age. But I still remember the tactile experience of typing long Basic listings into the little rubber keyboard of my 16k Spectrum. I [...]
Thirty years ago today, the ZX81 home computer was launched in the UK. Nobody could have even guessed what an avalanche this little machine would produce – within a few years, every teenager in Europe would be playing computer games… The ZX81 can easily be credited as the milestone that launched the computer revolution in [...]
We are living in exciting times! The search for planets outside of the solar system has been heating up considerably over the last few years and we have now hundreds of planets in our maps in a slowly expanding sphere of several hundred light years from earth. However due to the current detection systems, our [...]
It’s been a bit quiet on this blog lately, mostly due to complete exhaustion and sleep deprivation – ahh, the life of new parents… :) There are a few things to talk about, but before I get back to the usual blogging routine, here’s an update on my daily commute: It still rocks! Last Thursday [...]
Unfortunately I couldn’t go, but it looks like the Audio Data API presentation at the Mozilla Summit 2010 in Vancouver was a big success. Here are two videos of David Humphrey’s presentation on the state of the Audio Data API (same content but different angle): What blew me away when I saw the video is [...]
My photo “Dancing across Broadway” has long been a favorite of mine and so I was delighted when I got a request from Amanda Spencer if she could use it as inspiration for one of her watercolors… …and here it is! Amanda did a great job with this picture – I really love the way she [...]
My Spectrum Visualizer has made quite some waves across the blogosphere and it’s been a lot of fun to check out the considerable traffic to the Stories In Flight server. Of all the writeups I’ve found, here is the one I’ll use for my resume: OK this must be the bleedingest-edge project I’ve seen in [...]
On March 18 at 1:13am Luke Akira arrived, changing our lives forever. And while he is not always as peaceful as in the picture above, he has already enriched our existence beyond words. Welcome, Luke. We’ll have an amazing time together…
This is very cool: I’ve just done a lazy flight around San Francisco Bay with FlightGear – an open source project that has been going on for about fifteen years now. Not sure how I managed to not hear of this before, since I’ve been having bad withdrawal symptoms since I’d ditched Windows and Flight [...]