Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Better Oscilloscopes

Told this to the Tek rep. If you've been in a lab, you've been asked atleast once if you have a USB stick. The idea - put a detachable USB stick on each oscilloscope. When someone takes it out - the machine starts beeping annoyingly, so they have to put it back.

Sunday, January 6, 2008

Bottom Fishing for Charity

Alright, you want to get better at market timing. Here's how:

You give some money to charity every week. Make it once in two weeks.

Then, look for stocks and buy the stock with the saved up money. What you're hoping is that the stock will only go up - even in days - because the charity is sure to sell it (which is why they need to keep asking for money). If they don't sell, all the better, try to pick stocks that will anyway work out in the long term.

You do have to work through converting from street name, etc. Your broker will help. I've never done this of course.

YouTube ++

Don't think this one exists either.

Why not let you create a playlist instantly and then play all of those. You want to sit to a meal and watch an episode of something that's been split up into three parts. You did a search; all of them showed up. Now, display the results with a checkbox next to each one. The order in which you check the boxes decides the order in which they'll play.

Blogger ++

Being a geek, I'd be surprised if this feature already exists and I just missed it.

Could they please help with top-posting? You know how you each have one out of your hundreds of posts that you're particularly proud of, not dated, etc. You'd always like that one to show up on top of the rest.

Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Fovea Centralis for Your Cellphone Camera

How about this. You get into your car. You put your phone into a jack and lo and behold, it starts recording with a 10 minute looparound. And, it has one or many fovea centralises. So, when license plates come into view, it records them. Now, if someone does a bad traffic thing, you just send your video in and collect a small percentage of the fine.

You Tube and Better Customer Service

So you want to explain to the rep what your problem is. Why not make a video of it and post it on You Tube? The You Tube phenomenon is one of my new time drains. I've spent most of my time with the illegal uploads - Blackadder, Mind Your Language, Whose Line..