New job! I’m now Principal Algorithms Engineer in the Endovations division at Boston Scientific, developing imaging systems for endoscopy.

Once again, Google makes life better; their new Pages service provides free hosting of a small website, currently up to 100 pages and no more than 10MB. It doesn’t insert lots of garbage that breaks HTML and CSS validation, and … Continue reading →

PowerPoint is very special. The behavior of shadowed text over shapes with fill effects is incredibly non-obvious. The second color in the fill effect determines what color the text shadow should be. If you put shadowed text over a fill … Continue reading →

This is what software development office space should look like for maximum productivity. I’m just thankful I have dual 21" monitors and am far enough from a window not to squint through glare all day. Oh, and here are some … Continue reading →

Blender is fun, but has some really annoying warts. The lack of infinite planes means you must add atmospheric haze with the World:Mist option. After much experimentation, I found that setting the mist color to match the horizon color of … Continue reading →

Spent the weekend poking at robot parts and found I had quite forgotten how much fun random electronics can be. We diagnosed a number of faults, including a dead Ni-Cad battery, de-soldered the previous owner’s hack, and replaced a voltage … Continue reading →

After many years of having either insufficient time or resources to take up 3D animation, I finally took the plunge with Blender. Things have improved dramatically since my early-90s experiments with Infini-D on a 25 MHz 68040. Not only have performance … Continue reading →

My employer SMaL Camera Technologies have been acquired by Cypress Semiconductor.

Reading a graduation speech by Paul Graham reminded me of the importance of doing work one enjoys. Life is too short to waste on distractions like TV and busywork. I’d rather learn something new, like HTML/CSS or J2ME.