I Don’t Typically Do This

When Tumblr first came out I started an account and posted little things on the side but didn’t link to it anywhere. After a month or two I realized I had posted loads of content there and nothing to my primary site. So it seemed logical to switch.

marco:

Garrett Murray, interviewed by Chris Bowler. This is why I switched completely to Tumblr, too, despite having run my own homebrew CMS for years prior.

I too switched from running my own WordPress install to hosting on Tumblr when I realized that dealing with the constant security updates (especially before WP had built-in upgrade functionality) and spam/comment management was more trouble than it was worth. My old blog is still up, although it’s approaching a year without updates. Eventually I’ll get around to running Clint’s script to import my old posts into Tumblr.

London Cab in Philly (via myself)

I saw a London cab today on my way to work. It was left-hand drive so it’s possible that they make these for the US market.

I never understood why the US (and the rest of the world) haven’t switched to this style cab, which is much superior to a traditional cab:

• They can fit 4-5 people comfortably (compare to 3 or 4 in traditional cabs).
• There’s plenty of leg room when traveling with less than 3-4 passengers.
• They take up less space on the road than traditional cabs (the typical Crown Victoria, anyway).
• They’re much more fuel efficient (25-30mpg city vs. 12-16 on a CV).

I love these things.

Link to Photo

The answer is “Yes”, according to this RescueTime blog post:

Working from home gives folks a lot more time in front of a computer, if that’s what they are after.  With commutes, associated setup/teardown time, getting coffee from starbucks, lunches, and people dropping into the office, we’re all losing hours.  To be clear, all work and no play is a bad idea…  The really interesting thing about working from home is that we felt like we weren’t working as hard, but were actually logging about 22% more development and design hours.

I enjoy working from home a lot more than going in to the office. The outside distractions and overhead (commute and setup) aren’t there and without the lurking feeling of wanting to go home (which are exacerbated by the shorter days of winter), I waste less time. I can take my own distractions when I don’t feel productive (like playing video games at 2pm) and make up for it when I’m ready (like wrapping up my emails at 9pm). Working from home gives me the flexibility of fitting in X units of work in the 18 or so waking hours of the day rather than trying to squeeze it in to an 8 hour work day and with that flexibility comes the increased chance that I will actually produce X+1 units of work.

There have been widespread reports that the Droid’s camera is crap and that autofocus is broken. The autofocus started working today and many speculated that it was because Verizon pushed out a secret software update to fix the issue. It turns out the issue is the result of a bug in the autofocus routine where a 32-bit integer that stores milliseconds is overflowing to negative every 24.5 days (2^31 milliseconds is about 24.5 days).

According to the link:

There’s a rounding-error bug in the camera driver’s autofocus routine (which uses a timestamp) that causes autofocus to behave poorly on a 24.5-day cycle. That is, it’ll work for 24.5 days, then have poor performance for 24.5 days, then work again.

The 17th is the start of a new “works correctly” cycle, so the devices will be fine for a while. A permanent fix is in the works.

Link

davemartorana:

One of the best uses for the iPhone yet.

This is too cool.