I had some time over the holiday break to "geek out" and get some things done I never seem to have time to do. One of the things I finally got around to was connect Boxee to my living room TV. You may have heard about the Boxee Box which was recently released by D-Link and sells on Amazon.com for $199 at the time of writing. I'm running the Boxee software which is based on...
Person Family Chocolate Chip Pie An Open-Source Family Recipe Better Than Colonel Sanders' Secret Chicken Christina made me chocolate chip pie which is my all-time favorite dessert (besides ice cream) for Thanksgiving. Colonel Sanders had his finger licking good chicken, but the Person family has its chocolate chip pie. It isn't very open source of the Colonel to keep his chicken recipe all to himself. Heat milk & marshmallows and stir until marshmallows dissolve. Add...
I've been messing around with Instagr.am a new iPhone app that applies filters to your pictures. I didn't have my favorite camera with me for Thanksgiving but I did take a few pictures with my iPhone. I got a little carried away with Instagr.am didn't I?
I first watched the video and admired how the professor handled the situation. However, after watching the video I read some of the comments and discovered some things I hadn't thought about. Why would a college professor (or any teacher) use a standard test? I had no idea professors (and students) could buy standard tests online, did you? I tried Googling it after watching the video and was surprised to see how many results there...
Comparing Revenue Per Employee Across Major Companies Yes, I'm a data geek and I crunch company operating results for fun. Check this out... Wolframalpha is a public data search engine which allows for lots of complex data analysis. The data below is how much revenue each publicly traded company generates when it is divided by the total number of employees it has (per year). I work in the retail sector, so I first looked at...