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Fixing Print Alignment with Brother DCP-7065DN on Linux 25 Mar 2013 | 09:51 am
Knowing that it could be difficult to get printers and scanners working with Linux, I did quite a bit of research before settling on the Brother DCP-7065DN. Because I use Ubuntu, I did not have much t...
Keep Calm and Be Nice 23 Mar 2013 | 08:42 am
The recent donglegate debacle brings to light a poignant issue relevant to the programming community, the medical community, and the human community in general — that misunderstanding and miscommunica...
A Data Plan is Required? 24 Nov 2012 | 10:48 pm
I wiped my Galaxy Nexus last night and reinstalled ClockworkMod+CyanogenMod. This morning, I woke up to a SMS from at&t: AT&T Free Msg: Did you know a data plan is required for your Smartphone? We hav...
Ingress 19 Nov 2012 | 12:45 am
I stepped out this afternoon planning to paint the town as if it were St. Patrick’s Day, but I was disappointed to find a bleak landscape mostly devoid of portals. I did manage to capture a couple of ...
Should mobile phones be allowed in class? 10 Sep 2012 | 12:46 am
My younger cousin was enrolled in a persuasive writing class, and this was one of his prompts. The prevailing answer was no, because they present distractions and enable users to look up answers witho...
Hello, Avocado 10 Jul 2012 | 09:21 am
I started growing an avocado today. What secrets lie dormant within the oversized seed? Since the seed had already cracked down the middle by the time I dug it out of the avocado, I guess I have a few...
Going to Hong Kong? Keep Your Valuables at Home 28 Jun 2012 | 01:56 pm
I was returning to the USA from China on June 26th, and had to pass through the Hong Kong International Airport. At the time, I was carrying two expensive bottles of duty-free liquor that I bought at ...
Chair Thief 18 May 2012 | 06:21 am
My table at the Flushing Library was missing a chair, and a rather disgruntled-looking lady was looking for somewhere to sit. When she saw that the next table had an extra seat, she decided to confron...
BotBrew “anise” 9 Apr 2012 | 11:38 pm
I am delighted to announce the immediate availability of BotBrew on Google Play. This first release brings cross-compiled command line software to Android, along with a package manager based on opkg a...
agcc.bash: Make Native Android C Programs Using the NDK 8 Jan 2012 | 08:28 pm
I return to school at noon, but before then, I’d like to share my evening project: agcc.bash, a rewrite of agcc and agcc2.pl that works with revisions 6 and 7 of the Android NDK. The NDK is a GCC-bas...
