http://blog.erdener.org/ en-us kaan@erdener.org 2009-11-08T22:24:53-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use. http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001391.php The 5mp Hero Wide now supports 4gb SDHC cards (the previous max was 2gb using standard SD). I haven't upgraded mine yet, but it looks like a simple firmware update that shouldn't take more than a few minutes. Their website... 1391@http://blog.erdener.org/ blah 2009-11-08T22:24:53-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001384.php An excellent article from The Economist: Driven to distraction If you must talk, text or twitter, do not do it while driving.... 1384@http://blog.erdener.org/ blah 2009-10-21T12:50:04-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001383.php 2nd hard system crash in as many days. Snow Leopard system stability is pretty bad. I don't think I ever saw a full lock-up on Leopard 10.5, very infrequenet on Tiger 10.4. On the plus side, full system crashes will... 1383@http://blog.erdener.org/ apple 2009-09-10T14:46:43-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001382.php Briefly, here's my 2 cents after 24 hours on Snow Leopard: New Exposé is teh suck. Windows no longer retain their relative sizes in Exposé, which means a full-screen window might appear the same size as your tiny chat window.... 1382@http://blog.erdener.org/ apple 2009-09-03T22:24:35-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001376.php Everyone should read this. Stunningly simple, it visually explains all parties involved in the healthcare discussion, and also what their motivations are. Healthcare Napkins Key point: insurance companies are a business, and for all their whining + complaining, we shouldn't... 1376@http://blog.erdener.org/ blah 2009-08-22T03:04:31-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001374.php It seems like all kinds of influential / significant people are dying these days. Surely part of it is just perception based on my own age - the people I know about are reaching the end of their years. For... 1374@http://blog.erdener.org/ blah 2009-08-08T21:14:23-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001372.php June 9, 1916 to July 6, 2009 Robert McNamara... 1372@http://blog.erdener.org/ blah 2009-07-07T16:47:15-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001371.php "The Little Engine That Could" is a children's story that delivers several lessons to the reader, some of which are obvious and others less so. I read it as a child and remember the obvious lesson of "think positive". Having... 1371@http://blog.erdener.org/ blah 2009-07-03T00:51:43-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001369.php What's up with film studios deliberately crippling DVDs? While trying to create my own iPhone version of WALL-E, I've discovered that Disney crippled it with ARccOS. I own a fully-legal copy of the movie (3-disc set, no less), but due... 1369@http://blog.erdener.org/ blah 2009-06-13T03:37:04-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001368.php They did a study where they sometimes tricked dog owners into thinking the dog had done something they shouldn't do when the dog had in fact done nothing wrong. Basically the dog's expressions had nothing to do with anything, the... 1368@http://blog.erdener.org/ blah 2009-06-12T11:55:35-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001367.php I've heard about this several times, but never seen it. They say it's very inspirational. At a brief 15 minutes, I can't imagine it's not worth watching. Jobs is usually a captivating speaker, even when talking about mundane stuff. While... 1367@http://blog.erdener.org/ apple 2009-06-12T02:15:57-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001359.php Stijn Devolder took the Tour of Flanders for the 2nd year in a row. What a beast. I was rooting for Haussler (especially after he got nipped on the line in San Remo), but damn, gotta respect Devolder just storming... 1359@http://blog.erdener.org/ cycling 2009-04-05T22:23:10-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001358.php Click to enlarge Here's a chart I made by extracting data from the overall results of the 2009 Capitol 10k. It shows the number of timed participants for each overall pace. They sold 7,000 timed registrations (according to the... 1358@http://blog.erdener.org/ blah 2009-03-30T23:09:46-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001356.php How can you do bulk file rename using shell tools? The wrong answer is: mv *.OLD *.NEW The easy answer is a shell loop, should be pretty straightforward. Or maybe even a simple Perl/Ruby/etc. script. But it's also do-able using... 1356@http://blog.erdener.org/ dev 2009-03-18T11:17:08-06:00 http://blog.erdener.org/archives/001355.php The new MacBook Pro is a step backward from the previous version. I used a brand new 15" MacBook Pro (backlit LED display, glossy screen, black border, extruded keyboard, etc.) for more than 3 weeks while my previous MacBook Pro... 1355@http://blog.erdener.org/ apple 2009-03-15T23:22:55-06:00