Archive for February, 2004

About 2 months ago I was contacted by an editor over at Popular Science, regarding a Weblog entry on my website. Apparently they wanted to print an excerpt of it in their March issue.

Bought the issue yesterday, and there I am, on the bottom of page 13. Unfortunately it’s a magazine feature that is only in print, so it doesn’t appear anywhere on their website.

So go out and buy yourself a copy right now. Go on. Do it. Now.

I see one of my vendors has decided to use me as a pawn in their marketing juggernaut.

I’m glad, these guys make really good components. Their streaming compression library kicks total butt, I used it to pack data that gets transferred from a point-of-service device to a master device, and I get consistent compression (94% or better) in a ridiculously short timeframe. Reduced a 20 minute data upload down to 90 seconds.

Haven’t tried their .NET stuff yet, but from all accounts it looks like good stuff.