Tuesday December 20, 2011 00:46
My team is finally uncloaking the all-night, puzzle-based race we’ve been planning for the past year: “Brain Drained.” If interested, read on for details! If not, do me a solid by forwarding this email to a nerdy 20- or 30-something puzzle enthusiast you know!) Midnight Madness is a movie from 1980 (Michael J. Fox’s first movie, actually). Here’s [...]
Thursday October 22, 2009 00:22
My roommates and I live the networked lifestyle, primarily when it comes to entertainment. In the house there is a PS3 and an XBOX 360. I don’t usually play games, so I use the XBOX for streaming NetFlix movies and the PS3 for streaming video and music from the house server. All of the entertainment [...]
Monday June 29, 2009 01:08
In doing some work for the ACLU of Arkansas, I needed to convert some colors, and was flummoxed when I couldn’t find a good converter that would to Pantone to RGB and HEX values. Wolfram Alpha, being a computation engine, should find this right up its alley. It’s the first feature request I’ve submitted to [...]
Wednesday June 17, 2009 12:05
Say you have a script—like the previous CIM Repository Listing script—that outputs hundreds of rows of text via WScript.Echo. On the command line, this is fine; the text will go scrolling by, and can be piped to the more command or grep (yes, really), or logged to a file. But if you make the mistake [...]
Monday June 15, 2009 12:00
When starting to troubleshoot a Windows Server problem, the best place to look is the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI); this little enclave of information—on every Windows machine—acts like a datastore representing the configuration of every nook and cranny of a system. But knowing what to look for is half the battle. Recently, I was faced [...]