With the release of Leopard, I was saddened to learn that we’d lost the use of EOGenerator in the resulting tools deprecations. Thankfully, a couple of major competitors filling that role quickly arose.
I’d mentioned JavaEOGenerator before but after working with it for a bit I decided to go with the Velocity based EOGenerator (veogen) built [...]
Migration to Velocity EOGenerator Complete
Jan 29, ’08
6:37 PM
The Mystery Box
Jan 16, ’08
12:05 PM
J.J. Abrams (Lost, MI 3, Cloverfield) rifs on his creative origins and motivations in this highly entertaining TED talk. It’s a lot of fun, he’s a great speaker.
He also makes some interesting comments about what makes movies compelling. In doing so he says something to the effect that: “When people make sequels … they [...]
Winning the Oil End Game
Jan 16, ’08
11:53 AM
I am not a climate scientist or engineer, I also don’t believe we can consume our way out of the climate crisis, but Amory Lovins makes a compelling case in this TED talk* that modern engineering can go a long way to ease our dependency on fossil fuels for transportation (one of the key contributors [...]
The Manpollo Project
Jan 15, ’08
3:28 PM
How might you go about convincing sceptics that global climate change is something to be worried about?
Step 1: Create a short (say 10 minute) video outlining the basic science behind the subject and then use risk management techniques to identify the relative risks of doing something vs doing nothing.
Step 2: Release it to the world [...]