Archive for September, 2007

Internet People

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

If you’ve been trying to remember that awesome video clip you showed me on the internet, it’s probably here. You can also watch the top video (courtesy of methminute39) for brief synopsis of your online existence in song form.

Online Photoshop (sort of)

Friday, September 7th, 2007

A while back I sung the praises of internet-based computing. With google office, for example, you never have to install a program, and you have access to your documents anywhere, and all your stuff is automatically backed up. What more could you possibly want?
Well you probably also want a photo editor. Good thing Adobe just […]

Verizon: more than just bad phones

Friday, September 7th, 2007

My old friend Matt recently decided to write a random post questioning Verizon’s decision to have a great network but subpar phones. I can’t help but feel there are a number of other ways Verizon is short changing their customers.
First, as several of Matt’s commenters point out, Verizon cripples their phones. For years they’ve removed […]

Multiplication made easy?

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

Today on Freakonomics, Steven Levitt describes an alternative way to do multiplication. It’s also explained in this Wikipedia entry. Basically it’s a way of doing multiplication in binary (meaning base 2), even though you start with numbers written in base 10. In other words, you write one number as a sum of powers of 2 […]

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