Had a lot of things going on this past week or so, and wanted to comment on a bunch of them, but have been slammed. So here’s my thoughts, in no particular order.
A fellow pinball hobbyist has been collecting pictures of the “backglass” of pinball machines, or in other words, the art around the area where you score is displayed. One of the most notable things about pinball glass is that women’s breasts are always obscenely large.
Anyhow, this guy lost his hosting, so I agreed to host [...]
My Arduino Mega arrived in the mail today. With any luck, I’ll have time to mess with it a bit this evening. That means, though, that I need to come up with artificial test cases, to learn the hardware.
For those playing along at home, my ultimate medium-term goal is to control a pinball machine with [...]
Based on my referrer logs, a lot of visitors come here looking for icoconvert, a tool I wrote years back to convert ICO files to PNG. I’m going to see if I can dig up the source code for you all, and post it here soon. If this is important to you, leave me a [...]
I’ve been using Mashed Life for awhile now, and I’m happy with what they provide. It’s not for everyone; you’re storing authentication data on their servers. But today, I noticed that they now offer Yubikeys for $9.99, plus $3 S+H. This contrasts with Yubico’s price of $25 each, plus a bit of shipping. This is [...]
I decided to switch to a G1 today. The openness of the device vs the Sidekick really can’t be argued. There will likely never be an AIM application for any phone that is as good as the Sidekick, and I really do like my AIM. But nothing else about the phone is great. And lots [...]
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I don’t buy from buy.com very often. So infrequently, in fact, that the last time was over 6 years ago, as they had my old Atlanta address in their system. However, they’ve been around awhile, seem to be reputable, I guess, and occasionally have good deals [...]
We use Munin to graph various things in our network at work, and when I woke up this morning, I popped open a graph only to see, instead of the ~1500 max on the graph I was expecting, ~2B. Naturally, the “real” graph data was far too compressed to be readable or usable.
Quick research found [...]
We’ve had the Eye-Fi here for several days now. I have to admit, they have user interface and initial setup for this device down cold. I was shocked at how polished and simple they made the entire process, but kudos to them for doing so.
After initial configuration, I had to “format” the card in my [...]
A long time ago, Eye-Fi came to market. It wasn’t cheap at the time, but was a really neat concept. You take a picture with your camera, and voila, it’s on the web. Super cool. I’ve been doing more photography lately, and it’d be awfully convenient to have this kind of feature, so I was [...]
