This is by far the most interesting blog post I’ve read this year. It also gives me a great urge to buy something – anything – made by Chumby. If the guy who runs the company is that on the ball, they must be making good stuff, I reckon…
Okay, so here’s the deal – what I know about snowboarding wouldn’t fill the back of a postage stamp, but even I can tell when fifteen guys are working very very hard for a silver medal while the other would win the gold with his eyes closed and one leg tied behind his back. That [...]
It’s Test Day time again!
This Thursday, 2010-02-18, will be Color Management Test Day. There’s some exciting new color management features in Fedora 13. That is to say, there are color management features in Fedora 13! We’ve never had any real color management in Fedora before, so this is great news for photographers and designers in [...]
So, I somehow forgot to mention that I got a new shiny: it’s an AT&T Tilt 2. Odd choice since it’s an American phone and there are several versions available in Canada, you may think, but there’s a method to my madness: it has the exact frequencies required to work on 3G networks in both [...]
This is the kind of thing I just love. Now I have my PVR setup, it’s possible for the power state of the cable box to get kind of ‘out of sync’, with the combination of two different ’setups’ – direct TV, and PVR – that use it, and my Harmony remote control for controlling [...]
So I managed to find myself yet another ‘little’ project. I’ve had an HTPC for years, running Freevo; but that’s all it’s been, it just plays videos and music. At the very start I had it set up as an analog PVR, and recorded all of two things on it, but then the sound broke [...]
So, Apple’s announced their new tablet thingy. There’s an angel outside my window *even now*.
But, that’s not what really interested me. Here’s a pic from the Engadget story:
Okay, The Lovely Bones I can live with. But yeah, according to whatever online store that is, one of the Twilight books and The Tipping Point are both [...]
Well, this has been nostalgic – I haven’t pulled a packaging all-nighter in a while!
I was still sore about having to rely on Google for my calendar / contact synchronization, so I figured I’d sort that out. Cue eGroupWare. This is a rather nice SOHO/small business-targeted groupware suite; it does contacts, calendars, tasks and a [...]
Once again I must curse Google for being so good. I try so hard not to let them get their tentacles everywhere, but damn…
I like to keep my cellphone and computers in sync (contacts and calendar mainly). I’ve written about this before; I actually became one of the few True Adepts of the synce / [...]
So I got struck by one of my frequent itch-scratching urges…
I keep my passwords in Revelation, a GNOME password manager. It’s been mostly unmaintained for years, but hey, it does what I want and works well. Occasionally I’m out somewhere and want to log in to something or other, but can’t because I don’t have [...]