Withings WiFi Scale
If you have been following this blog for a while, you know that I track my weight. Ever since the days of the fat teenager, I wanted to keep it under control. I’ve had my ups and downs, but in the past 20 years, I have never moved more than 10 pounds from my standard weight of 174. I wrote software to track my weight on a variety of platforms. It became the default thing for me to do with every new programming language and UI environment: create a widget that allows you to enter weight (and later bodyfat) data and display it in a meaningful way. Continue readingA proud moment
Without much further ado, here two YouTube videos that illustrates the progress you can make in just a few weeks of surfing. First a video shot at the end of February (uploaded on the 27th): The YouTube player can not be loaded with disabled JavaScript. The following video is embedded here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=joIj0jCJgzo Then this latest video, from mid-April (uploaded on the 13th): The YouTube player can not be loaded with disabled JavaScript. Continue readingYHIHF: Microsoft is Going to Buy Nokia
Nokia is not doing well. The once juggernaut of the mobile space is still a ubiquitous household name in most of the world, but its name is increasingly associated with “low-tech,” cheap phones. In particular, Apple is eating its lunch in the lucrative smartphone space, where Nokia once ruled the roost. After ruling out a refresh of its aging Symbian OS, Nokia was trying out various variants of Linux. We first had a tablet, the Nokia N770, refreshed a few times. Continue reading2011
Imported Photo Album Continue readingWhy this site changed name, and why you should be cautious about GoDaddy.com
You may have noticed the change: this site used to be hosted on the domain gawd.at. Now it is on mrgazz.com. Why? Let’s start from the beginning: what was that with the gawd.at domain in the first place? Well, if you go and look at your old feature phone, you’ll see that the letters that form the name are all first letters on the keypad. G is 4, A is 2, W is 9, D is 3, T is 8. Continue reading
The Euro Debt Crisis - Explained
It’s one of those moments in my life when people around me ask the same question over and over again. This time, it’s, “What’s wrong with the euro?” Since there are only so many hours I can spend explaining my version of the story, here is an article about it, and I hope this will answer some questions. What Was Before the Euro? I grew up in Europe, a child of a mixed marriage between an Italian and a German. Continue reading
Did Jesus Bless a Gay Couple?
This is a post in a series expanding themes encountered in the novel, In the Mission There were many passages in the Gospels that I didn’t understand, as a child. I would read them with my mother, she would explain them, and they still didn’t make a lot of sense to me. I decided that I’d just have to wait to understand them, just like when the adults talked about sexy things. Continue reading2011-09-24 Mount Shasta
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