Pandemonium Medicine ShowWeblog of Mike Duigou aka bondoloRichard Hamming -- You and Your Research- June 24, 2008 I spent most of this evening reading and thinking about a speech by Richard Hamming. The speech, You and Your Research, is Dr. Hamming's advice about how to do "Great Work" to his fellow scientists. Reading the speech this evening, about 22 years after it was delivered, it seems culturally quite dated but it nevertheless resonates strongly. I believe in another 22 years readers will possibly have some difficulty interpreting his experiences. That my teachers and some of my early mentors and...http://blogs.sun.com/bondolo/entry/richard_hamming_you_and_your I Need A New TTS Blog Reader- June 21, 2008 For about the last year I've offered a "Read Aloud" link on my blog to have articles read via synthesized Text-to-Speech. Unfortunately the service I was using appears to have gone defunct. (It wasn't the least bit clear to me how they made money). Any suggestions for a replacement TTS service I've managed to find a few services but none of them stand out by offering better voices or better parsing of the blog content (one of the services sounded as if it just removed the XML tags from the...http://blogs.sun.com/bondolo/entry/i_need_a_new_tts Industrial Java Realtime JavaOne 2008- June 17, 2008 I've previously mentioned here that I worked on a really cool Java Realtime project for JavaOne this year. Before JavaOne I couldn't really talk about the project, but it's not a secret anymore though. Here's a video of Greg Bollella, the project lead, on stage with James Gosling: Greg Bollella & James Gosling : BlueWonder Onstage I was involved with the low level drivers and board controls as well as the "industrial" user interface and other portions of getting the system operational. I also..http://blogs.sun.com/bondolo/entry/industrial_java_realtime_javaone_2008 "Let me tell you something about the Eastbay...- June 16, 2008 ...its California but it ain't sunny" -- Tim Armstrong "Among the Dead" from A Poet's Life <shiver>Another sunny but unbearably cool summer day in Berkeley. My office is outdoors. Actually, it's in the garage but with the big door open it might as well be outside. For most of the years I have lived in Berkeley I've been able to work comfortably with the door open through the bulk of the summer. This year, sigh, not so much. Even with a sweater, hat and long pants I'm freezing my butt off.http://blogs.sun.com/bondolo/entry/let_me_tell_you_something ReadyNAS Now Even Cooler- June 3, 2008 I have been using a ReadyNAS NV+ for about the last 8 months for all of our home backup and content serving needs. The ReadyNAS is a very capable and useful little device. The web based management interface has been a pleasure to use. (Well, except for some recent problems with Firefox 3.0). I've known for a while that the ReadyNAS uses Linux for it's operating system and a wide variety of FOSS components but I hadn't really thought about the possibility of third party offerings for an...http://blogs.sun.com/bondolo/entry/readynas_now_even_cooler |