http://delackner.com/blog ideas to share with friends new and old Tue, 04 Nov 2008 06:14:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On the iMac I use at work, I use Bootcamp to run Windows XP.  When the system wakes from sleep (suspend) the built-in Bluetooth device fails to wake up.  This is nearly 100% of the time. Solution: I bought a little USB Bluetooth device, plugged it in, and disabled the built-in ... http://delackner.com/blog/2008/11/solved-bootcamp-wake-from-sleep-bluetooth-failure/ Lovely, I see this on the Lloyds TSB remittance calculator page for today's exchange rates: Hopefully just a website error, right? http://delackner.com/blog/2008/11/exchange-rates/ I happen to live in Tokyo.  I have friends here and in the US, and London, and various countries actually.  That means I would like to be able to try to play networked games not necessarily just with people who live geographically very close to me, but with friends that ... http://delackner.com/blog/2008/06/region-coding-hell/ This article on The Age website has near the end this quote: Japan's meat consumption had increased by 900% since 1955, in part because expanding incomes had enabled families to supplement the sparse national diet of rice, fish and miso soup with more Western-style food. Which made me laugh because just before ... http://delackner.com/blog/2008/04/on-the-japanese-diet-from-the-news/ I haven't tested the official 1.01 build yet, but since it incorporates the ALT image support I added, my own build is probably nolonger necessary.  Rikaichan 1.01 announcement http://delackner.com/blog/2008/04/rikaichan-alt-support-merged-to-main-rikaichan-build/ By the president of Cypress Semiconductor speaking before congress, in the 1990s.  Well worth reading. http://delackner.com/blog/2008/03/a-great-speech-on-competition-and-government-subsidies/ Some comments on Marvin Minsky's writing on this mistaken ways in which we teach children.  First: his article. Looking at the systemic failures of the US education system leaves me unable to see a viable route to a high functioning system[1].  This leaves me wondering, when I  have children, how to ... http://delackner.com/blog/2008/03/commenting-on-how-mathematics-and-everything-else-is-taught-to-children/ Listening to the BBC News podcast for 2008 March 10, they have a fascinating debate between the host and a deaf parent, where the deaf parent, Tomato Licci (sp?) argues with real vigor and tremendous intellectual dishonesty, for his right to pay to have an IVF embryo that is deaf, ... http://delackner.com/blog/2008/03/logical-failure-and-political-correctness/ I love the band, I love the music.  I even went to see them live recently and would gladly pay for a high definition DVD of the performance, if they ever make one, it was that amazing. But this extremely slow film, even at 2x fast forward, still manages to express ... http://delackner.com/blog/2008/03/daft-punk-electroma-movie-review-do-not-see/ I woke up this morning after an unusually vivid dream in which I was at a tech conference and stumble upon a demonstration of a new immersive 3d viewing system where you sit down at a table that has a set of glasses with flat semi-transparent screens for lenses, attached ... http://delackner.com/blog/2008/03/dream-of-immersive-viewing/