November 2009
2 posts
Droid camera bug caused by monthly cycle... →
Google engineer Dan Morrill, on why everyone’s Droid’s camera issues seem to have mysteriously fixed themselves this week:
There’s a rounding-error bug in the camera driver’s autofocus routine (which uses a timestamp) that causes autofocus to behave poorly on a 24.5-day cycle. That is, it’ll work for 24.5 days, then have poor performance for 24.5 days, then work again.
The 17th...
Watch(video) Stephen Colbert shaving Woody Harrelson’s head to show support for the troops. While singing a remarkably good two-part harmony rendition of the Star Spangled Banner. Pretty fantastic.