I love nerding out with numbers and one recently caught my attention.  The Large Hadron Collider is the highest energy (man-made) particle collider in existence. In a few years, it will be operating at full energy, 7 TeV.  It is currently operating at half of that. That got me thinking, how much is 1 TeV?  Also, [...]

Dave Grohl may have inadvertently discovered the formula for mobile app sales.  Yes, the lead singer to the Foo Fighters.  Watch this video to see what I’m talking about. Okay, so the video is about music.  Sure.  And the interview starts off with “most white people dance to the lyrics”.   He then takes that and [...]

I was reading my favorite news aggregator this morning and an article from assertTrue() popped up about splash screens and bloatware. The summary of the article is that applications are slow to start and that is disrespectful to the user. I think he makes a great point – why does Photoshop need to load every [...]

I just finished another view review for TubeClockDB.com  This time I take a look at a modular VFD clock that supports multiple shields for different tube types.  The firmware is open source and hacker friendly.  Read the full review here.

I take a lot of product photos for my work on TubeClockDB.com.  Every product Ir review gets a full set of photos before I even begin to produce the video review.  These are some of my favorite images.

Right now, this website and TubeClockDB.com are hosted on a dedicated virtual (VE) server from MediaTemple. I manage the LAMP stack, the applications, the dependencies – everything. The reason I stick with this setup is because it is one of the few that allow me to dynamically allocate more resources to my website as I [...]

NYSEG and RG&E collected customer social security numbers.  To clarify, these companies are do not issue credit cards – they provide gas and electricty.  Why do they need social security numbers?  The simple answer is that they don’t (more on that in a minute).  I am guessing that they collect them so that they can [...]

A personal atomic clock.

Futurama has a series of posters that have a retro look.  I didn’t realize how inspired they were by wold WPA posters until I found this old “Keep Your Teeth Clean” PSA.  I’ve assembled 11 Futurama posters next to (what I think) was the inspiration for them.  Enjoy! If you use this image elsewhere, please [...]