from the desk of stinkpot

i’ve discovered a new program for my mac this weekend that should make for a lot of fun w/ our summer backpacking pictures: autopano pro.   checkout what it did with 9 hand-held photos from bohol, philippines:

i’ve only recently discovered: a) text messaging on my phone; b) t9 word completion.  i’m going to argue that i was born about 5 years too early for texting to be second-nature to me, the way using google comes so instinctively to my generation.
in any case, a texting feature i discovered on my phone today […]

i got a little distracted lately and began designing our lab website.
i ended up getting a lot distracted; iweb is incredibly easy to use and making extremely visually appealing websites with very little effort is addictive.
if you’re interested in getting to see what happens when abercrombie & fitch meets a microbiology lab, check it out […]

ugh, it cost me two hours of sleep, but i finally got lightbox and gallery doing something that doesn’t suck.
check it out! [click on one of the images]
update: in another colossal  waste of several hours, i’ve finally wrestled the lightbox script into working with images linked from blog posts.  clicking on images in posts is […]

i don’t know why, and i don’t know how, but i’ve just come across a website that streams the french open for free (and even shows matches earlier in the day!)
http://video.tennischannel.com/schedule.jsp
this makes christina and my vow of no-cable-tv so much more bearable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXT2E9Ccc8A

insane how eloquent americans were 50 years ago.  although perhaps, back then, we only put people who we didn’t want to embarrass on tv.

… at reproducing low-end frequencies?  (and assuming they’re good enough, how good your low frequency hearing is?)
i’ve uploaded some files here to give you an idea.
although, i guess if you’ve got lousy low-frequency hearing, it’ll be interesting to see if you can still tell how deep your speakers’ bass is.  perhaps you can just watch […]

so my server took a bit of a vacation the last week or so. last friday, i decided to try and earn my yellow belt in linux administration as i migrated my filesystem to a raid 1 configuration. [damn you newegg and your cheap hard drive deals!!] i figured that although i […]

just finished installing palm’s software that lets my antique sony clie play nice with my mac.
only took 2 hours of my time and the incidental deletion of my desktop and all of its files and folders.  i can’t recall exactly what was there, but i’m sure it was important; why else would it be on […]

i’m starting to adopt christina’s sleep schedule.  it’s comprised of: passing out on the couch while watching national geographic documentaries about giant crocodiles around midnight and waking up at 7.00 am to go to work.
since no self-respecting programmer would show up to work at 7.30 am, i’ve decided to just have breakfast at home, waste […]