Republican or Obama Supporter?
February 10th, 2008 • Flickr, Politics
A bumper sticker that I recently sighted on the road from Phoenix to Las Vegas. It’s getting hard to tell which side hates Hillary more.
NYE 2008
January 10th, 2008 • Personal
Abbe and I at Palm Park Street Patio in Columbus, Ohio. Got my jacket stolen and we ended up walking a couple of miles to her brother’s house in 30mph winds 0 ° temps. Had a lot of fun though.
Distro Review: LinuxMint 3.1
September 25th, 2007 • Linux, OSS
Part 1 in a 2 part series I recently had the opportunity to try out Linux Mint, a new linux distribution aimed at capturing desktop user share from Microsoft. Linux Mint is a Ubuntu (debian) based distribution with some interesting user interface improvements, a few notable additions, and some closed source files that Ubuntu doesn’t [...]
Not Getting Strong Enough Wifi Signal?
September 5th, 2007 • wifi
Lifehacker told us we can easily boost our wifi antenna’s reception up to 50% or more by creating a parabolic reflector out of scrap cardboard and tin foil. I made a crude one following their directions and measured the improvement in signal reception on my laptop running kismet. Check out my results!
Digg Takes A Step Back From Disintermediation
September 3rd, 2007 • digg
One of the driving forces that led me to become a frequent user of Digg was the idea of disintermediation of news; that the userbase set the rules and determined what sites were newsworthy and which sites should be banned. In recent months following the DVD encryption key mayhem that rocked the site, things appear [...]
Jiwa Music
September 2nd, 2007 • Music
I’ve signed up for just about every music site that exists over the last couple of years and been disappointed with all of them. I’ve ditched allofmp3.com (who I hear might be coming online again soon) for pandora, for last.fm and most recently Last.fm in favor of JiwaMusic. (My malaysian friends tell me Jiwa means [...]
HOWTO: Use Songbird, Tor, and Privoxy to Anonymously Stream (or Download) Media Files
September 1st, 2007 • Music, OSS
Disclaimer: downloading media that you don’t own is against the law In case you haven’t heard Songbird is a great open source media organizer and content scraper. With a couple of small tweaks you can set it up to anonymously download (backups of your existing) media or stream media from millions of sources online. With [...]
My Favorite Greasemonkey Script: GoogleMonkeyR
July 31st, 2007 • Greasemonkey
GoogleMonkeyR is a greasemonkey script written by a userscripts.org user named mungushome that I’ve fallen in love with lately. It alters the search results in google so you never need to click next page for more results and it is highly configurable allowing you to view the results in 1, 2 or 3 columns for [...]