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Tomorrow morning I hop on a plane to CFUNITED in Washington DC.  Four days of learning, chatting, getting far too little sleep, and generally being a programmer geek 24 hours a day.  Even better, Joshua and Koen (two coworkers) are coming as well.  It's been a hellish past few weeks at Mentor, and getting a [...]

I believe I've blogged about Excalibur (an RPN calculator for Win32) before, but I just discovered the wide array of constants that it has built in:

While I can't say that I use many of those numbers in my daily calculations (which are usually either pixels or dollars), the last one is definitely useful.

After a day of using my new Edge, a couple thoughts:

As expected, the distance/speed measurements are slightly low, because it assumes traveling in a straight line between checkpoints, so you lose a little bit of distance going around corners.  Compared with my "normal" computer that uses a wheel sensor, the error is about 1.5%, though [...]

Joe Rinehart says that the codpiece is coming back. A huge proponent of genital decoration/protection, he managed to create a custom codpiece from his CFUNITED nametag. Truly an ingenious man. Next year we expect to see him sporting an authentic period 'piece.