The Cramer Family

30boxes – First Impressions

I’m just going to start out by saying that it is hard to find an online calendar that looks good and works well. But anyone who’s attempted to share the family calendar can understand the level of frustration that this search can cause. It doesn’t seem like a hard problem to solve, but there has [...]

Foxtrot is for nerds!

Got a kick out of this. From the bluehouse.wordpress.com:
Random Thoughts
This FoxTrot cartoon has a binary math puzzle as an Easter Egg.
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The binary numbers and their decimal equivalents:
01011001 89
01001111 79
01010101 85
01001110 78
01000101 69
01010010 82
01000100 68

He then goes on to show an example in c# to find the answer. In the name of [...]

Flocking

So I’ve gone and got myself a flock browser. Here’s a test post to see what all the hubub is about. I do think it’s a nice looking tool, and I’m excited to see how this can change my workflow, but I will wait to see how they add extension support and other features that [...]

Serenity

So cool. Orson Scott Card had a great review over on his website.

All I heard was, “It’s great, you’ll love it.”
Well, guess what.
It’s great.
I’m not going to say it’s the best science fiction movie, ever.
Oh, wait. Yes I am.

Lost

It’s great when a season premiere is as good as anything that was going on the last season. It makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
Or very confused.

Just Like Heaven

We got set up on a couple date last night with Paul and Kristina Kelly. Everyone came to our house and then the Grandparents stayed around to be with the various sets of twins. Paul and Kristina have a boy and a girl twin who are 9 months old. It was fun to go out [...]

Memory Leak

Just found this article on a possible memory leak in Java. I’ve been under the understanding that StingBuffers where the preferred method of building large strings. While this is still the case, it turns out that when you call the StringBuffer.toString() method the entire byte array of the StringBuffer is returned.
if you initialise your StringBuffer [...]

SleepTracker

Tammy will tell you that I am horrible when it comes to the snooze button. There’s just something about the extra 7 minutes of sleep that I crave. Maybe that’s why I need the SleepTracker!
From the review at GearLive it really seems like this thing works. The basic concept is that the watch monitors when [...]

Google Maps

Like everyone else in the blogosphere I’ve been very impressed with Google’s latest offering Google Maps. It has a very simple and clean interface but it looks to be very powerful. Everything is done without the browser reloading and the graphics and popups are very nice. I still prefer MSN Maps because it allows me [...]

The last comic stands

It’s over. The votes have been tallied up and there is a new last comic. I got caught up in the show when a friend of mine, Duane Day, mentioned that he’d been watching the first season and thought that it was really funny. So when I saw the previews for this new season I [...]