A New Way To Surf - LP
October 12th, 2008Everyone’s talking about IP TV and how it’s going to revolutionize things. We’ll be able to get our TV anywhere, any way, but the reality has fallen short of the promise. Your ISP may be beaming Digital channels down to you over IP, but the experience is largely unique to your ISP. Your cable box is not a TV Content browser, no matter how much it tries to be. Heck, you can’t even take your Time Warner Cable box and easily connect it to a Comcast user’s home. The spirit of the IP in IPTV is sorely missing.
That’s why I’m working on a better way–and I need your help.
There are several standards regarding IPTV (and they are used), but while they focus on delivering the content, they do not focus on the programming. If you’re looking at the web to solve your problem, don’t look there either. Every single news or content producer has their own site with their own way of accessing it. You need accounts, you need a pretty hefty browser, and you need to wade through a different interface each and every time.
There is no way to channel surf on the web.
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An Unlikely Monopoly - What’s Wrong with Google AdSense
July 30th, 2008There’s an elephant in the room when it comes to the internet. Microsoft wishes it was them, Yahoo’s just had too much to drink, and there’s a big purple elephant in the corner — Google.
Programming Pong in C and OpenGL - Part V
July 22nd, 2008It’s been a while since I last updated on this, but hopefully you’ve brushed up on your C and OpenGL skills. Here you’ll find the entire source code to a pong implementation in C and OpenGL.
Enjoy!
Why I’m Falling in Love with Futures
July 11th, 2008It’s costing us more for everything. And as consumers, we’re finding ourselves harder and harder pressed to make ends meet. But there’s a silver lining in the thunder clouds of roaring inflation. Even though it’ll be a rough couple of years, the high price of gas and oil is already bringing about some change.
You see, in America, and much of the rest of the world, energy is currency. Without rehashing the standard chain at length: oil is gas, it is jet fuel, and it is used to transport, grow, heat, light, build just about everything.
But you know that.
Here’s the interesting thing that’s happened in the last 15 or so years, Read the rest of this entry »


