Health

Surgery has been scheduled

The Gastric sleeve surgery I mentioned in my earlier post has been scheduled for July 26, 2012 at 10:00am at El Camino Hospital . This is the same hospital I was in last fall when I had Cellulitis in my left leg.

Jun 18, 2012 1 minute read.

Technology

Getting full resolution on a Macbook Pro Retina Display

UPDATE 2012-06-18: My Justia colleague, Dan Vu Quoc , has let me know that the 3rd party shareware Screen Resolution utility for Mac SwitchResX is capable of pushing the Macbook Pro with Retina Display’s resolution up to the full 2880 by 1600 resolution even when not plugged into an external...

Jun 16, 2012 5 minute read.

Health

Weight Loss Update and transparency

As everyone who has ever seen me (or a picture of me) can attest, I am extremely obese. After I wrote my most popular blog post ever , one wiki (which doesn’t seem to be online anymore) linked to my article and credited me only as “a very large man” and it is true, I was and still am quite huge....

Jun 01, 2012 5 minute read.

Web

Web Intents are Great | Web Intents are Horrible

Web Intents in Google Chrome 19+ changed what happens when you view an Atom or RSS Link, here's how to get your XML Back

May 30, 2012 2 minute read.

Technology

You'll never probably need to delete another message

Remember when GMail first came out ? 1GB of email was unheard of, especially in a free service at the time. One of Google’s big selling points was “ you’ll never need to delete another message. ” It was right there on the home page. If you compare the home pages from 2004 and today for Gmail...

Apr 24, 2012 3 minute read.

Technology

Google's Code Mistake, and what they did to make it right

A Coding Challenge to get into Google I/O 2012 went awry when Google's developers made a simple validation mistake

Apr 19, 2012 5 minute read.

Event Review

Google I/O 2012 Sells out in less than a half hour

Even though Google doubled the price (paid $450 last year, this year $900), Google I/O sold out even faster than last year. Last year it took about 45 minutes for Google’s Developer conference to sell out, this year it was all over in just over 20 minutes according to a post on Google+ by Google...

Mar 27, 2012 1 minute read.

Book Reviews

Perhaps it isn't April Fools day after all! Pottermore Shop now open

I mentioned last week that Pottermore is set to open to the public on April 1st unless it is a cruel April Fool’s Day joke to Potter fans. It seems the Pottermore team is hoping to dispel the fears that it might be a joke by releasing part of the site (a part that wasn’t previously even available...

Mar 27, 2012 3 minute read.

Reviews

The Tale as old as Time, is new again (twice)

A review of both the Beauty and the Beast new movie and the stage play

Mar 22, 2012 2 minute read.