Archive for June, 2008

Window Wrangler 1.0 Released

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

For all the keyboard lovers out there, here's an application that will allow you to move and resize your application windows in Mac OS X with your keyboard.

Check out Window Wrangler – let's you move and resize your windows via the keyboard on Mac OS X.

I wrote it, it's donationware, and I've been using (and [...]

Free, Open and Collaborative Teaching Materials

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

While listening to a TED talk, I heard mention of connexions, which is an initiative to let people write modules of teaching material, and let people customize these modules into collections, for example for their own course teaching material.

It's an admirable and impressive resource, and I am sure it will become more so as it [...]

James Watson Quote

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Great quote from James D. Watson (of double-helix-DNA fame):

My father was raised to be an episcopalian and republican, but after one year of college, he became and atheist and a democrat.

Metal Gear Solid 4 Review

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Finally, I found a review of Metal Gear Solid 4 that is in tune with my experiences with the game, rather than reeking of unbecoming reviewer-fanboyism (which is certainly my experience most of the reviews of MGS4 - check this list).

It may be a bit early to call it, since I've only played half of [...]