I am currently a software engineer at Google, where as a member of the Android platform team I build frameworks and user interfaces.
The blog here at dsandler.org is mostly historical; you can find more recent posts on Google+.
Well, crap! Death Cab For Cutie is playing Numbers right now and I had no idea. That would have been a much cooler way to spend a Friday night than working on a paper, and then, watching Celebrity Poker Showdown. Crap!
Ainsi, un webmaster peut d?cider, par un outil appropriè, d’importer le contenu du “flux RSS” dans sa propre page Web, et plus largement n’importe qui peut, par une manipulation similaire, recevoir dans sa boite e-mail ou via un logiciel dèdiè les dernières mises à jour d’un site proposant la diffusion de son contenu “en RSS”.
French-language introduction to RSS. The French always come up with great tech idioms; first it was “système d’exploitation” (operating system), and now it’s “flux RSS” (RSS feed). Formidable!
So, it seems highly possible that we might end up with a 269-269 electoral college tie. Then things get really weird.
Yeah, the catalog of
2004′s Scariest Halloween Costumes for kids (including: “shoelace bomber”, “arrested protester”, “Ralph Nader”) is pretty chuckle-worthy. But Tom Tomorrow should get the credit for the scariest costume of them all, since Sparky the Penguin dressed up as a touch-screen voting machine last year.
Typgraphica points out that Clearview, into which a huge amount of research has been invested, has been approved for use on Federal highway signage. (It’s already in use across Texas; I’d been wondering if it was a local thing, or a trend in nationwide signage. Now I know.)
The NPR 100: the 100 most influential musical recordings ever made. Benny Goodman, Dave Brubeck, the Talking Heads, the Ramones, Bob Dylan; the list goes on and on. (related NPR stories)
Wired: Has TiVo Forsaken Us?
Buy a TiVo lately? Sometime in the next few months, your machine will quietly download a patch that makes it respond to a new copy protection scheme from software maker Macrovision. The app puts restrictions on how long your DVR can save certain kinds of shows – so far, just pay-per-view and video-on-demand programs. It’s the first time your TiVo won’t let you watch whatever you want, whenever you want. We asked TiVo general counsel Matthew Zinn why he thinks Hollywood will settle for an inch when it can take a mile.