fighting the lack of good ideas
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’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 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…
Have begun. I just got a site setup for my fiancee and I to keep our friends and family up-to-date on what’s going on: http://warrenmyers.com/wedding/. And yes – she picked the blog theme 🙂
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…
I ran across the Tiny Code site recently, and was reminded of how many of us started programming on ancient machines that barely had enough horsepower to handle typing – yet we’d spend hours on end writing little games and whatnot that had to be small or they wouldn’t run. I’d love to see a…
Yet another link I found off Hacker News, the Backblaze storage pod – 67 Terabytes of storage in a rack-mountable unit for <$8k. I’d love one or two or 80 of these in my spare bedroom 🙂