technology
The free new N95 vs the old iPhone
It all started years ago when i got a Nokia 6600. It was a dope phone and it really raised the bar for me in regards to my expectations for …Location hacking. Or how I am addicted to knowing where I am
The last few weeks have been a whirl wind of travel, emergencies and fun events. All of it has made my life a mess in regards to plans, …Social XMPP
Last week my friend Mark pinged me and mentioned that I should get together with a friend of his who was in town for PYCON. I am always into …Those parties were awesome!
I am finally recovered from my flash travel/party tour. Being shuttled around the country going to parties is a rough life - let me tell …OLPC Chicago Jabber Server
Today I spent a minute setting up a Ejabberd Server for the OLPC Chicago group. This will allow all of us OLPC XO hackers to be on the same …Awesome hosting options
I spend WAY WAY too much time trying to figure out where and how to host my websites. I guess you could it a hobby. A really horrible and …The Mosso Cloud: Requests are not a good metric
UPDATE: Not a moment after i posted this - i got a mosso mailing that explained an upgrade in the plan. I will leave the original number in …Google Apps Auth: XMPP and Radius idea
At work we use Google Apps for our enterprise email and calendaring. We use pretty much the entire gamut of tools Google provides us. And …Rails and Wired magazine
Apparently I am in the March Wired magazine. I am not sure exactly what the title of the article or the exact content - but I was interview …Putting the blame on your vendors for the win.
In the past week there were a couple of companies(tumblr and 37signals) who publically blamed Rackspace for the downtime of their sites …My battle with desktop Linux
Awhile ago i decided to switch to Linux on my laptop. It was awesome. I didn’t last however - a work emergency occurred and I spent more …Chicago Ignite! Our presentation
Tonight, Scott and I presented at the Chicago Ignite tech meetup. It was pretty fun. The event was “eventful” and the people were the usual. …Google Talk group chat integration with Jabber Chat
I love jabber. I love Google talk because it is jabber. I really like what jabber supports and how it works. And the Google talk desktop app …The iPhone is nifty
Yesterday my friend Bryce was in town for the FBLA national meet. Pretty cool. We walked all over Chicago and I made sure we swung by the …heh. Crackers just tried to social engineer me
So. A neat thing happened to night. Crackers just tried to social engineer me out of a ftp passwd based on my whois record. Fun Fun. They …Hosting woes. Collocation and how Mosso sucks
I hate web hosting. I really do. I think that hosting is one of the most annoying parts of having web apps. It is hard to do. it is hard to …Google Mashup Editor
Today I got access to the Google Mashup Editor. it is really nifty. I like it. The samples are amazing. I can’t wait to sit down and play …Flickr Gallery for facebook.
So I decided to jump in and write a facebook application. It was really fun and pretty easy. For those of you who haven't been following …My thoughts on the OLPC.
Awhile back I was lucky enough to get my hands on one of the beta XO-1 units of the OLPC. For those of you who are not familiar with the …I have a idea on the tip of my tongue
You know when you are speaking and you are have a word stuck in your head and you can't quite think what it is. it is on the tip of your …Which laptop should I get
So I am in the market for a new laptop. I am currently using a Dell Inspiron 700M which I purchased a couple summers ago when I was doing …The Digg Rebellion: a breaking of the covenant
It all started today when DIGG censored a news story. A story about the AACS controversy. AACS issued some cease and desists to various …Sitting in the hotel lobby...
Ivan and I are in Santa Clara this week for the mysql conference. We are going to learn how to make threadless so fast that it breaks …The twitter plugin that I wish existed
So I have been using twitter for a minute. I really enjoy it. I got all my friends on it and quite a number of my family using it. Its fun. …PECL Uploadprogress example
Today I decided I was going to build the asynchronous picture uploader for one of our new projects. I had installed the PECL Uploadprogress …Rails woes. The slow that is keeping twitter down.
I have a love and hate relationship with Ruby on Rails. I love what it does. I love the activerecord, I love how it makes designers and …Haxoring the Chumby: My first thoughts
So I got a Chumby awhile ago. It is really neat. I fell in love with it immediately. I took it apart, put it back together. I turned on SSH, …The whole blogging code of conduct thing.
So awhile back, a little before etech, Kathy Sierra was attacked by some Internet hoodlums who used hatespeech and made Kathy Sierra feel …My upgrade wordpress script
I broke my blog the other day. It was a pain in the ass. I don’t really know what happened - just that it broke. So I was thinking, I hate …Sad Google day.
Usually when I blog about Google, I am happy. but today it is a sad sad Google day. For the first time since the days of metacrawler, a …Memcached on skinnyCorp
In the last year or so Threadless has grown insanely. When I started in 2005, we had around 2 servers and a bundle of downtime. Now, just a …Adsense results and website performance
Whenever you read about tips to increase your Adsense earnings, you always get the same five or six tips about placement, color, and …eAccelerator made it faster!
So my blog has been slow for the past few months. It has been killing me. I run my own server - so I knew it was something that I did. …Windows Vista vs OSX - Price comparison
So Jake asked me about Microsoft’s new Windows Vista and whether we should look into getting it. So we looked at the website to see when it …How I setup blogs for my friends
I am a blog advocate. I am often pushing my friends to get blogs and to update them. I love reading about how my friends are doing and what …I got a Venice Project beta test
The Venice Project is a P2P social television project by the guys who made Skype. They are really into disruptive technologies and I am …eek. I've been dugg!
So I am totally sleep deprived. I got back from Japan yesterday and didn't follow the rules for avoiding jet lag - mainly I went right to …How to hook twitter into a IRC channel
So I love playing with fancy things. And twitter is one of those fancy things. In fact - it has been on my mind quite a bit. Like I said a …Twapp - a quick hack to update and view twitter
Tonight after work I decided to whip up a quick twitter client in C#. I love C#. It is so fun and easy. I have never done web work in it, …Linux distribution for older folks.
So my grandfather is older. He isn't 1000, nor is he 150. But he is up there. Maybe around 75ish. But he is pretty spry and active. He is, …stuff.harperreed.org. Last nights web-dev itch
So last night after watching movies with my parents and making capes with my mom, I decided to redo my code repository/misc directory site …Mac telephony mailing list
The OSX/Mac voip community has a new mailing list. It is located the The Macintosh Telephony Mailing List site. The list will cover all …fukung.net - a new face to nata2.info
I was thinking about how I have a lot of domains that are not being used and how that pisses me off. It is annoying to have a domain that …Wikipedia is hard to use. WTF Search.
So. I love Wikipedia. I love encyclopedias. I love the knowledge and the ability to learn anything quickly. Wikipedia is special because it …Gmail Apps for Domains
So for the last couple months skinnyCorp has been working on moving hosts. It has been pretty fun and interesting and there are a few things …I got a new Nokia N73
So I sold my Nokia E61 to my friend Scott - he will probably use it more than I and he doesn't mind it not having a camera - and I used the …How to get and watch free TV
So I canceled directTV awhile back and have been struggling to figure out how to easily download the shows I want to watch. I would love to …More youTube stuff: I made a youTube badge.
So i decided to copy the success of my flickr badge and create a youtube badge. It works really easy and shows the last 6 videos you have …Some quick youtube hackings
Man. Today was pretty awesome. Woke up. Juggled. Ate good food. And wrote some dope PHP stuff. After reading a bunch about some peoples PHP …Hacking mobile voicemail with Asterisk and caller ID spoofing
So there has always had a problem with US mobile providers having their voicemail be susceptible to being compromised by calling with a …Thoughts about The DECK and PageRank.
The other day I read the great post about Matt Cutt's SEO tips and tricks that were gleaned from his great blog. It was probably one of the …falbum broke due to its flickr API key expiring.
So falbum, the awesome flickr photo gallery for wordpress, broke this afternoon around 4pm due to the API key for the plugin expiring. This …What happens when open source needs a closed source solution?
Just a warning to all who would read this - i think i was a bit tipsy when writing it. so it is very very ranting and probably doesn't make …Wikipedia's lack of good search will be its undoing
So Wikipedia is getting a lot of coverage for all of the doings of the wikimedia foundation ($100 Laptop Partnership, Wikiversity, Wikiwyg). …Goddamn Joel on software's new google search appliance.
So i think it is awesome that seth godin was able to "convince" google to give joel on software a google search appliance. That is amazing. …How to sync your phone, iCal and Google Calendar together.
I use a lot of operating systems in my daily computing exercise, each one does its own thing. I use windows for development - which really …Why linux isn't mainstream? Bullshit!
AHAHA. i loves swearing. I was just perusing digg and found this article on newsforge: Why Linux isn’t mainstream. It has some good points …How myspace treats its users
So myspace is annoying. Don’t get me wrong. i have two accounts and over a thousand “friends” - but i hate how the site looks, works and …Six Apart's Vox - nice work.. good aggregation... but i don't want another blog.
So tonight i have been playing with Six Aparts VOX blog service. Besides the confusing name (probably only confusing to me - the alcoholic …OpenDNS Part 2: after using it for a hiphop minute
This is a followup to the post about openDNS from July 10th. So we used openDNS for a couple days. It worked really well. Then it failed. We …testing out openDNS
I just put openDNS into place at skinny. It is a neat DNS “replacement” that is a bit more intelligent than regular DNS. it apparently …In other news...
I finally got my TI MSP430 Microcontrollers. I am pretty excited to see what i can do with them. Lets see...If you guys were really my friends
You would buy me this: Nokia E60 It is hard to not buy it. But i need to wait until i get paid extra or something.. man.. so tempting. …Ubuntu
I have been using ubuntu for a minute here while i compile some software for use on my soekris box at work. I am attempting to move from the …Nokia N80 is released
I was talking to my “phone connection” and it looks as though the nokia N80 is out in the wild. You can check it out here. The N80 seems …gcal: google calendar wordpress plugin
I have released my first wordpress plugin. It allows a user to take the public shared calendar feed from goodle calendar and display it in a …Yahoo mail beta
I used this awesome trick to get on the yahoo mail beta. it is pretty cool. a nice rich interface for mail. I don’t like it as much as gmail …Gumstix, myspace, php and other nerdy stuff.
The last couple weeks have been ultra nerdy. It has been great. I got my gumstix and have been rocking that - attempting to get a handle on …Investigating the nabaztag
I got my gumstix today and was lauding the fanciness of the smallest comptuer i have EVER seen, explaining to my coworker Dan how i was …Whew. How i hate PXE.
So i spent most of today attempting to boot my soekris 4521 via PXE to install freebsd. It is killing me. i am going to punch it. wait. i …Geopoli.com. I kinda need some help maybe.
I need some new sites. Speaking of which - I am making a new site: geopoli.com. It is a geotargeted political banner ad and text ad delivery …Campfire bot framework v.2 released
Oh yea. I forgot to mention that i released a new version of my campfirenow.com bot framework. It is quite a bit better and a lot more …Well i purchased my gumstix.
So we shall see how it goes. My plan is to make it welcome me when i arrive and to control LEDs to alert me of certain things. It will have …Caller id spoofing with PHP and asterisk
I have cleaned up and commented a little hack i did for my home asterisk server - allowing a person to dial an extension and then be walked …OSX Asterisk updated
As yall know i have been playing and hacking with the Asterisk open source PBX. In my exploration time i have been looking at some great …oh man. i am seriously on the bus.
its nuts. but i do love bluetooth. connecting to the internet magically while riding uncomfortably in a bus. haha so i am going to madison …work is fun
i enjoy work. it is fun. the people are nice. i am excited to get relaly involved and spend days and nights here. haha. i have a lot of …check out my new tool
I wrote a new tool after work today. Check it out: I needed a way to view what keywords woudl display what ads with Google's incredible …hehe. i love bush
check out this comic. so very very true. unfortunately it is being banned by newspapers all over. too bad it is true. heh. I love shit like …Nokia 7610
So on new years day i got a little “carried away” and got my Nokia 6600 wet. The joystick immediately stopped working and all hell broke …OGO review
I got my OGO in the mail today and have been using it on and off all day. It is a pretty cool device. Unfortunantly (as any new device) it …a500hacking forum closed
I have closed the a500hacking.com forums. Basically the forums were full of spam, nonsense, script kiddies and basically just trash. I …totoro. medicine women
this is pretty funny. sometimes I wish I had a secret place to store things. like a mary poppins bag of sorts that I could carry around and …ok here it goes:: pictures pictures pictures
so I finally put the pictures up and here is the “annotated” guide to my photos. there are a bunch that I didn’t include. check them out …Tmobile WAP 2.0 Settings for 6600
a lot of people have been having a hard time getting MMS and WAP to work with the nokia 6600. however. a while ago tmobile upgraded their …Danger Sidekick: nerd machine
While i was at home for the holidays i saw my friends Sidekick and he showed me the terminal program on it. at the time i was havinging a …Nokia 6600
I recently picked up a nokia 6600. i will post my comments shortlly.so i woke up
and freaked out a bit. I finally calmed down and found out that it will all be ok. I wasn’t freaking out about anything in particular. just …lentil soup is roasting my ever dark soul: privacy issues!
this is a long entry heh. I wish I really was a darksider. I have had some really weird dreams the past couple days. first I had a dream I …Handy Mobile
So my mobile phone fascination has reached a new height. I took some spare time in the last couple days and compiled a …friend jon
My friend Jon got an article written about him in our hometown newspaper. Check it out. He walked a long way. Wierd - there is apparently a …3gscreensaver.com
I started out simply enough with the a500hacking.com website, but i soon noticed that the audience for that site had grown, and was …Tonight.
I wonder how many entires are labeled tonight? a lto. .it is silly. anyway.. onight igot the data cable for my phone. It rules. serious. …whoa
So Microsoft wants to control the national ID initiative with its .NET passport system. They want to issue every citizen a passport and then …It is better
today was hard. I was able to hold up. Work was ok. I am trying to decide a hobby. maybe direct TV hacking.. maybe console stuff.. maybe …Domains 4 me. ....
So i went and got some new domains, which jumps my number of domains to 35 or so. Here is the list: bitchmech.com, cornellstudent.com, …