Matt's Blog

A lot of cars are putting a big touchscreen LCD into cars, hooked up to a mediocre GPS system. And then they integrate it into some proprietary system. Not necessary proprietary as in “icky and closed-source,” though it’s that, too. But I suspect every car manufacturer has their own interface, each reinventing the wheel, and [...]

We should be back in business now, though I’m not sure for how long. The server this is hosted on seems to be having some hardware issues; I’m not sure yet whether it’s a bad disk or a bad RAID controller. (BTW, the extra cost for RAID and iLo lights-out management are suddenly well worth [...]

My GPS is complaining that the maps are old. Last time it did this, I realized I got one free upgrade and that the maps were, in fact, several years old, so I took my free update. Now they’re a couple years out of date again. So here are the options I see: Illegally download [...]

I was just reading this news article about a former political aide found dead in a Delaware landfill. The news is terrible, of course, but the quotes really bother me. For one, “He was just not the sort of person who would wind up in a landfill” seems to imply that there are some people [...]

Am I the only one that perceives a “season” attribute in music? MSTRKRFT’s Easy Love is totally a spring/summer song, but it seems entirely apropos on a January day that’s in the mid-50s and climbing: