JOD now runs on the Mac The J addon JOD now runs on Macs. You can update JOD, or install it for the first time, with JAL. JOD now runs on all the major J hosts: Windows, Linux and the Mac. To keep track of host specific features I have started a series of version … Continue reading Mac JOD
Month: June 2012
Turn your iPhone into a jPhone
Jsoftware recently released a free J app for the iPhone. Search for “jsoftware” in Apple’s app store and you will land right on it. There are many excellent free iPhone apps, I have half-a-dozen on my iPhone, but this little jewel sets a new standard for power in your palm. Let’s start with the good … Continue reading Turn your iPhone into a jPhone
Ooh Promethean Tentacles
Hey let's wander around in the dark and feed vagina snakes. Prometheus breaks the first rule of movies: don’t make your audience think! Any movie that violates this taboo gets exactly what it deserves and Prometheus is begging for it. Let’s get the good stuff out-of-the-way. Prometheus looks great. It throws up one fabulous tableau … Continue reading Ooh Promethean Tentacles
Controlling Cell Phones the new IT Frontier
Personal cell phones are on the IT hit list. It won’t be long before your employer starts jamming or confiscating your personal cell phone. Wait a minute isn’t that a tad hyperbolic? Wouldn’t that trigger an avalanche of “freedom of speech” lawsuits? Wouldn’t people yell “fornicate elsewhere” and quit? Ahh, if only it were so. … Continue reading Controlling Cell Phones the new IT Frontier
Venus puts a period on our Time
I left work early yesterday to scoot down to Forest Park, one of St. Louis’s best city parks, and take in the transit of Venus. The St. Louis Astronomical Society conducted a public outreach event on the grounds of the World’s Fair Pavilion. The pavilion sits atop a small hill with a good view of … Continue reading Venus puts a period on our Time
Evil Queens are getting Hotter
There’s not a lot of good news out there. Our currencies are being sodomized by economic imbeciles. High unemployment has demoralized the masses and forced lobotomized bureaucrats to get off their entitled asses and redefine it. The suck---oops stock---market has returned SFO for a decade. CO2 levels are rising. The seas are not subsiding; they … Continue reading Evil Queens are getting Hotter
Analyze the Data not the Drivel 