Brian Howard.
Some folks affect you disproportionately. Brian has been one of those. I’m not sure exactly how to describe it. It’s probably silly for me to pull the word “hero” into the description, but I’m not sure I can really avoid the word either. Little things can confer that status on [...]
I started my own company back in 2006. The company, Figure 53, LLC, has been a labor of love since long before it was officially formed. Scraping together a few hours each night, and cramming 20 hours into the weekends, I slowly managed to make a product and…holy hell…even managed to sell a [...]
An idea I don’t have time to pursue right now:
The new iPhone SDK, which gives developers access to the accelerometer, should make it easy to write up a little iPhone pedometer application.
Just tell the app your stride length, turn it on, slide the iPhone in your pocket, and away you go. A friendly display [...]
Hint: it’s not on the Wii.
I played this as a kid, except all the motion was in my head:
Utterly cool.
(Really, I used to fill up sheets of paper with frozen-in-time contraptions that funneled a ball around the paper into a goal. But turning that into a video game? Stroke of genius.)
From Microsoft Excel for Mac:
I sure love being told that the programmers knew exactly what I was trying to do, but decided they weren’t going to bother doing it for me.