2009 was definitely a mixed bag for us, as was, I suppose, the "aughts."In other words, life.

Out with the old:

in with the new!

• Disassembled Webcam, removed lens, Dremeled film canister and enclosure, and voila! Planetary astrophotography cam! Feeling like Macgyver. #
• Hubble just flew between Moon and Jupiter!!!!! Wow!!!! (right place, right time) #
• Photo of Hubble passing between Jupiter and Moon (bad exposure, blurry, but what can you do?) http://bit.ly/5ds9G9 #
• Just …

Cool presentation.

It's a tooth-chattering 62 degrees in Hawaii this morning as the Sun reaches its lowest latitude of the year.

Yesterday was a wild one, beginning with a waterspout:

and ending with a beautiful crescent moon near Jupiter.

As I was looking at Jupiter and the Moon in the twilight, I …

I wish I had time to investigate Accelerator v2, a managed interface for General-Purpose GPU and x64 multicore data-parallel programming. Fun!

Satnam Singh's MSDN Blog : GPGPU and x64 Multicore Programming with Accelerator from F#.

Robert Dempsey's post Does Offshoring Really Save Money? says the #1 risk of offshoring is communication overhead.

In this post I argue that the larger risks for offshore development include lack of offshore management know-how, inadequate user involvement, poor change controls, and lack of required technical know-how. As an "offshore …

The "MIT Red Ballon Challenge" won a contest sponsored by DARPA to spot 10 red balloons placed somewhere in the continental United States. The MIT group spotted all 10 balloons within just a few hours of the balloons being launched. Other teams submitted within a few minutes of the MIT …

I wish all statistical tests could be reduced to something this easy to follow and understand: Easy statistics for AdWords A/B testing, and hamsters.