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Review: Klein Non-Contact Voltage Tester
I'm not much of a tool person, but have my collection of tools and occasionally pick up something that looks like it could be useful. After one of my last projects doing electrical work, I picked up a Klein Non-Contact Voltage Tester
from Home Depot. The concept is pretty simple, turn it on, wave it near a wire, electrical outlet, light switch, etc. and it will beep if there is electricity flowing. I've used it a few times mainly just to see how cool it is.
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Are you my neighbor?
When I went to walk my dog this evening, I found a present at the end of my driveway.
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Working with blocks
In Mac OS X 10.6 and iOS 4, Apple added blocks to Objective-C. When I first started looking at them because various APIs used them, the syntax confused me, and I pretty much ignored them as I was still doing work that ran on iOS 4 and Mac OS X 10.5.
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Siri and a 4 year old
I've been playing a lot with Siri on my iPhone 4S and am finding it pretty neat. I add reminders when running and when in the car. I'm also asking it the weather, temperature, etc. My 4 1/2 year old son saw me asking it "What's the weather?" and he tried to do the same. Unfortunately he doesn't enunciate well, so Siri gets very, very confused. He's managed to get Siri to respond to something this evening; he asked it "What's the weather in San Jose?" and it responded correctly.