Can’t go flying? How about the next best thing.
I have a strong attraction to flight, in all it’s forms, but I feel the strongest attraction to things that are the closest to free flight… it’s one of the reasons I’m very interested in soaring – it’s...
View ArticleYawl gets a new face.
New Desktop Originally uploaded by eidolon Investing in hardware for my workspace is always hard, particularly when it could easily be interpreted as “Oh, that’s just for FUN.” But with the price of...
View ArticleOops :(
I have a lot of laserdiscs. Last count had it around 210. Since we moved almost 2 years ago, about half of these were stored in the basement in what I thought was a stable box. Well, it wasn’t....
View ArticleZorching Memory Leaks. I Am Teh Stud
Tonight, I am Da Man. It’s rare I get to sit down and see, so directly, a problem in the code I’m working on. In this case, while running at Ubercon the other weekend, I noticed that CONGO was showing...
View ArticleBuy my printers!
I’m unloading my old badge printers to help finance upgrading to new, smaller, lighter printers from Evolis. This means the badge printers I’ve been using at conventions for the last couple years are...
View ArticleIt’s 8AM, and you are…listening…
… to rain. This week has me down in New Jersey visiting my client. These visits are invariably very productive, very tiring, and very important in maintaining an even keel and a steady course on the...
View ArticleMame Cabinets – Things learned thus far
We’re about halfway through the whole Mame project hullaballoo, so, since I inflicted my Mame cabinet on Ubercon a week and a half ago, it’s really only fitting I take a few minutes to contemplate the...
View ArticleSettlers
Settlers Originally uploaded by eidolon Back from NJ, a few friends over, family together. Let’s play Settlers. It’s good to be home. The post Settlers appeared first on Planet Geek!.
View ArticleLife snapshot…
“Dad?” “Yeah zach, what’s up?” “I’m posting something in a forum, how do you make a link?” (Dad pauses here, thinking scary thoughts about open forums, but willing to check it out…) “What forum?”...
View ArticleDear eBay. Fix your HTML. Again.
I know you’re the largest online auction house on the planet. I realize that despite the bazillions of dollars you rake in on a yearly basis, you still haven’t been able to hire a single competent site...
View ArticleOLPC G1G1 Program netting $2m a day
As reported on Engadget : Negroptone’s OLPC Buy One, Give One program has been extended to 31 December, 2007 — well beyond the initial two-weeks originally announced. The deal buys both yourself (or...
View ArticleLinksys router upgrade
Nothing like a nice quiet thanksgiving weekend to take it easy around the house, enjoy some quiet time with the family, and… UPGRADE YOUR ROUTER! Our Linksys WRT54g has been happily managing our net...
View ArticleGoogle Sketchup – Okay, this is cool
I’ve been having fun playing with Sketchup, Google’s 3d modelling system. At first I avoided it because there was no native Linux version, even going as far as to get it to run under Wine (a process...
View ArticleFacebook. Am I missing something?
So I have a profile on Facebook. It’s been enjoyable fiddling around with the apps and linking up with other folks, and all that has been peachy keen. In particular, I rather like the Twitter-esque...
View ArticleDear Intarweb…
Somewhere, back in the mists of UI design, some bright light came up with the idea of making options in an application or desktop environment selectable by using a mouse to point at a menu along the...
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