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I noticed CNN is running an footage of this year’s ACM Awards. It looks like they managed to book some high profile country music singers for the ceremony.

Well I was cruising for new feeds an I came across the flickr blog which had a nice bit of cognitive dissonance as you see above. Oh and I installed WP 2.5 and I wanted to try it out. Then I discovered that image uploads for a great many installs are broken in 2.5 [...]

Google has added a feature to YouTube for navigation of related videos. Video bubbles are placed by attraction. If it works like our algorithm at work for displaying networks and flow graphs here’s the general idea behind the algorithm. Videos with a higher relation ranking have bubbles which are assigned a higher attraction. [...]

I dabble in graphic design and I of course love OSS applications because of the enthusiasm and practicality that is typical of their design. Inkscape started as a fork from Sodipodi by a group of programmers who were bent on C++. I personally was fine with this because the main Sodipodi author brought his personal [...]

They have had me on after burners so long at work I often cannot remember simple things when asked. That being said we are hiring. And I am seeing to it personally that I get decent help. If you think you have the right stuff for cutting edge aerospace software engineering (CS or CompE) bring [...]

Congratulations are in order to the Ben Franklin Racing Team for being selected to go to the qualifying round (and beyond) for the DARPA Urban Challenge in October. This thing was put together in a year and it seams safe enough to drive itself effectively now and at relatively high speeds. It can distinguish lanes [...]

Many, many bugs can be found through static analysis, however, the present state of analysis tools is pretty poor. Often we have two options. Either we shut off many of the warnings or we add so much verbosity to the code that readability suffers. The verbosity is ok when you are working small projects but [...]

I have sent a new version of LookOut to addons.mozilla.org (AMO). Of course I am still waiting for them to approve the last version I submitted. This new version fixes a metadata reading bug and added RTF decoding/decompression. It would be nice if the RTF could be viewed inline but at least it is accessible. [...]

Tags are an index of the definition of symbols in your source files. They allow you to quickly navigate your source files and to find what symbols exist. Originally they were designed for Vi probably because navigation is so poor there that you need navigational aids. Emacs has a number of integrated tag functions that [...]

I have now added some automated Technorati integration to this Wordpress blog which will hopefully make it more integrated with a tag based internet. I addded the Wordpress TechnoTag which allows you to add <ttag>’s around a term that relates to the subject of the post or comment. The TechnoTag plugin has a little bit [...]