Here are a few notes from the yellow notepad I’ve been using for school over the last six months. This first installment touches on C. Later I’ll add some UNIX programming and C++ notes. Basically these are the things that struck me as I was quickly reading the “refresher” material for […]

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If you’re in the U.S., I hope you enjoyed your Memorial Day.
Lisa and I went to the Old Burial Hill in Marblehead today, where Lisa took this picture:

In Memory of James Dennis Hammond
He was one of the Heroes of the Frigate Constitution and having been wounded in the capture of the Java he received a […]

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Greetings from the Pacific Northwest. I’m in Bellevue, Washington, taking Herb Sutter’s class, Effective Concurrency. Scott Meyers took the chair right behind me; and, yes, he still needs a haircut. Of course, so do I . . . but not quite so badly. I suspect that I’ll write something here in the coming […]

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A few months ago I mentioned some research by Hultgren and Hertl about the quality of images from mobile devices, in which they discovered that mobile devices with small image sensors tend to perform very poorly in the circumstances where they are most used: indoors on close-up scenes. Camera-shake, image fuzziness, and large amounts […]

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It’s been a while since I posted any of my own photographs here — photos without headstones, that is. But today I installed Adobe Lightroom on the ‘ole PC, imported all of the old photos that I haven’t looked at in a while, and came across these composite photos from 2003.
I was going through […]

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The CDF folks at Goddard Space Flight Center have identified a security vulnerability — a buffer overflow to be specific — that can enable the execution of arbitrary code on your machine if you open a particular malformed file. If you’re accessing CDF files via MATLAB, you can download a security patch from NASA […]

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