Wednesday, August 11, 2010
I’ve started writing [simple] plugins for WordPress – the blogging tool I use to manage antipaucity.com. As I write more, if I think they’re worth sharing, I’ll write about them here. A full list will also be available at http://antipaucity.com/plugins.
In follow-up to a previous post, I saw this on Wired.com today. Seems Ford sponsored a class at UMich to develop Cloud Computing apps… for the Commute. The new Fiesta can Tweet while it’s driving. Not sure I like that idea… but it’s interesting, to say the least.
I maintain another blog on a very hap-hazard basis with a friend of mine on another domain. We use blogger. Turns out that you cannot specify an alternate port for sftp publishing with blogger. So my changes to the ssh daemon on the server to run on port !22 are useless if we want blogger [...]
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From a news story I saw today on RIM acquiring QNX, this quote jumped-out at me: “RIM’s acquisition of QNX could open the door for tighter integration between Blackberry devices and car computers, a capability that could be important as cars begin to drive into the cloud.” I wonder what folks would think if car [...]
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
I’ve not yet been impressed by any of the e-book readers I’ve seen – with Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s Reader being the apparent “market leaders” in the segment. However, Barnes & Noble’s new Nook may change my mind. From the early reviews, it appears to have a better screen, longer battery life, and more natural [...]
I saw this in /. earlier in the week. Apparently NASA is turning to the American public for new challenge/contest ideas. I don’t know whether to be impressed that they’re trying to get new perspective.. or scared that they can’t come up with it on their own. There’s lots and lots of smart people at [...]
Monday, September 14, 2009
With the new iPod nano from Apple, it looks like someone is starting to implement a digital radio recorder. It’d be nice if it wasn’t just the “skip” or “pause” protection, but it’s a start.
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
I just found this article from David Pogue that indicates how to avoid the voicemail prompts and greetings: It turns out that each carrier offers a “bypass the instructions” keystroke that takes you directly to the beep. (It bypasses both the person’s own recorded greeting and the 15-second carrier nonsense.) To be as evil as [...]
Thursday, September 3, 2009
I realize I asked this question a while back, but in reviewing some of my history, I was reminded of how helpful the site has been for a variety of issues. And I’m sure that questions like this one regarding VMware and VPNs is something “I should have known” – but not knowing where to [...]
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end6 must die
Have any of you seen end6.org? Apparently some web sites choose to redirect their viewers to end6.org rather than render in IE6. Yes – IE6 is old. Very old. But hundreds of thousands of us are stuck using it while at work due to bad IT policies, or upgrade paranoia. Taking me to end6 instead [...]