Using my phone as a computer speaker
I am aiming to have a productive day today. I have a to task list and everything. But there are also audio files on my computer I want to listen to and rather than go through the trouble of transferring that file to my phone, I thought it would be cool to be able to pipe my computer's audio over the network to my phone. That way as I move room to room I can stay tuned to the audio.
Enter AudioRelay, a windows freeware, and a free Android app. I installed both and they synced and it works seamlessly.
I don't know how often I'll use it, but in this case it is a good solution for me.
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"Write 'Freehold' Software"
A blog entry where the author dives into the need to support software which is not a service, a term he proposes be 'freehold' to make use of the term's definition as it relates to real estate: "Permanent and absolute tenure of land or property with freedom to dispose of it at will."
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Southwest's woes are due to not maintaining their digital systems
Southwest providing a very visible business lesson in the costs of technical debt. Technical debt refers to the increasing cost of managing technology as it falls behind. From the sounds of it, Southwest had a system which "worked" and thus they kept kicking the can down the street for updating their system.
This weather system this past week finally revealed the level to which their technical debt had left them completely unable to catch up and maintain their system.
Now, the question is, will their losses from these days - as well as any fines which the government might levy as punishment for their mismanagement, prove out to be less than what they would have been paying to update and maintain a modern system? That will be the telling business lesson.
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"Stockfish vs ChessBase, Round 1"
Stockfish is the current best generally available chess engine, and as a coincidence, it is open source. A for-profit company, Chessbase, released a chess engine called 'Fat Fritz 2' that was supposedly a unique piece of software, only to have it revealed that it was heavily built on the back of Stockfish. Stockfish is taking Chessbase to court in Germany and they finally had their first day in court.
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