Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings

WordPress, web development, and world domination.

Blog Archives

Olympic Blogging

Feb142002

You want to know what’s happening behind the scenes at the Olympics? Check out the latest news from b-may.

The Iceberg Secret, Revealed

Feb142002

I wish I had seen this article a couple of years ago. It might have saved me some grief on projects I’ve worked on. Joel Spolsky’s The Iceberg Secret, Revealed explains: If there’s one thing every junior consultant needs to have injected into their head with a heavy duty 2500 RPM DeWalt Drill, it’s this: Customers Don’t Know What They Want. Stop Expecting Customers to Know What They Want. It’s just never going to happen. … Continue reading →

The Straight Dope

Feb122002

You’ve got questions? Well, Radio Shack ain’t got nothing on Cecil Adams, who has been giving people The Straight Dope for many years now. Check the archives for answers on topics that range from the lyrics to “Louie, Louie” to moon cheese.

New Digital Imaging Technology

Feb112002

A company called Foveon, Inc. has developed a new imaging sensor which should radically improve the quality of images from devices such as digital cameras. Standard sensors have separate sensors for the red, green, and blue pixels, and the devices that incorporate these sensors must do complicated post-processing of the captured data to render the final image that we download. The new “X3” sensors will capture all three color components within a single sensor. Less … Continue reading →

Big Blue Marble

Feb082002

NASA has some of the most detailed full-color pictures of the earth ever released. The site was bogged down today (probably due to millions of people downloading multi-megabyte image files), but it really was worth the wait. Check out the Big Blue Marble exhibit.

Wired Nation

Feb062002

Wow. About 143 million people, which is over half of the U.S. population, are using the Internet. New users are coming online at a rate of 2 million per month. When you zoom in to look at the stats for kids between the ages of 5 and 17, about 90 percent of them are wired. [via Slashdot]

Busy

Feb052002

Sorry for the lack of updates recently. I’ve been staying pretty busy at work. I’ve seen several links that I’d normally add here, but I just haven’t been able to spare the time. There is one new thing, though. Last weekend I finally got around to getting the webcam hooked back up.

Whoops

Jan302002

If you’ve tried to use the permalinks, comments, or haggis points since the upgrade, you probably noticed that they didn’t work. Sorry about that. I’ve fixed it, and have even updated the CVS version of MyPHPblog (I’m a developer on that project).