Thursday, May 15th, 2008 
What kind of monitor setups are most productive? This is a question that I ask myself often, as I try to be most productive at my school work, which is more often these days completed on computers.
A study by The University of Utah has concluded that two monitors can significantly increase efficiency. Further, monitors of size 24″ tend to be the most productive.
So if I’m interpreting this correctly, two 20″ or 24″ monitors will achieve the optimal efficiency for me.
Dr. James Anderson discussed his findings in his paper (begins on pg. 32) as well as on NPR. Very interesting.
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008 Very scary:
BBC: Odd Videos
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Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008 Much better than Leetspeak:
- 0xABADBABE (“a bad babe”) is used by Apple as the “Boot Zero Block” magic number.
- 0xBAADF00D (“bad food”) is used by Microsoft’s LocalAlloc(LMEM_FIXED) to indicate uninitialised allocated heap memory.
- 0xBADDCAFE (“bad cafe”) is used by ‘watchmalloc’ in OpenSolaris to mark allocated but uninitialized memory.
- 0xCAFEBABE (“cafe babe”) is used by both Mach-O (“Fat binary” in both 68k and PowerPC) to identify object files and the Java programming language to identify Java bytecode class files
- 0xDEADBEEF (“dead beef”) is used by IBM RS/6000 systems, Mac OS on 32-bit PowerPC processors and the Commodore Amiga as a magic debug value. On Sun Microsystems’ Solaris, marks freed kernel memory
- 0xDEFEC8ED (“defecated”) is the magic number for OpenSolaris core dumps.
- 0xFEEDFACE (“feed face”) is used as a header for Mach-O binaries, and as an invalid pointer value for ‘watchmalloc’ in OpenSolaris.
Wikipedia: Hexspeak
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 
Ted talks are great. Check out Carl Honore on “Slowing down in a world built for speed” here.
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