Category: photos
Aug
21
A researcher at NIST recently gave me a rather unique business card, with Braille text embossed on the card!
Cool! This would be a great thing for those of us that work with people with visual disabilities.
One catch, though: OCR-reading softw… more »
Jun
27
Today I was reminded of a behavior I'm not a big fan of in FireFox: foregrounding of cookie allow/deny dialog windows when I click on a link in another application.
Here's what happened, and possibly how you can reproduce it:
1. First, I run firef… more »
Oct
08
Alex Halderman's DC Council Testimony
elections, certification/testing, reform, news, open source, secrecy, problems, photos, friends, research, policyI captured video from today's [DC Council][1] [Hearing][2] of The [Committee on Government Operations and The Environment][3].
[Prof. Alex Halderman][4] (Michigan), Susannah Goodman ([Common Cause][5]), Jeremy Epstein and Pamela Smith ([Verified Voti… more »
May
24
Occasionally, my MacBook Pro will get "stuck on mute"1 if I pull the headphones out too quickly. When you try to increase or decrease the volume, you see this:
When this happens a red LED shines out of the headphone jack:
With some cleve… more »
Apr
17
I replaced my iPhone (2G) battery today, and it was much easier than I expected.
*(Click on the image for more pics.)*
Don't get me wrong: it is far from easy. However, with some patience, the proper tools, and a good technical grasp of the p… more »