The Rigged-Up Net

This is a pretty cool demo of the Logitech Orbit Cam… For a $100 webcam, I think the software set is pretty amazing…

Wow… free Wifi in downtown Austin… sweet! Right now, the network covers an area extending from Town Lake on the south to 7th Street on the north, and from Lamar Boulevard on the west to I-35 on the east. Downtown wi-fi network goes live

Everyone is excited about this new Tivo box that came out. YAY! Great! It has built-in ethernet! WOW! And it has dual-tuner capability – we can record TWO shows at once! Whoopie! So Tivo finally delivers on a feature that people want, right? Dual tuners is the ultimate, right? Wrong. These Tivo idiots have released […]

Every car needs one of these: Turn the car on and watch it “SPIN” Step on the gas and the spring loaded spinner aggressively “POPS OUT” of your exhaust! SPINNER EXHAUST TIPS The Newest BLING For Your Ride! http://www.shoplaser.com

One of my favorite SNL skits… Awesome. 🙂 Super Colon Blow

Apparently, I haven’t travelled all that much yet… gotta get working on that… create your own visited states map create your own visited countries map

Ruby on Rails – a loser? Why Ruby on Rails won’t become mainstream

Everytime I see this ad, it reminds me of Pouya… I can just see it, he’s rolling down the highway in his Benzo with his posse… phone call from the office comes in… well, you know the rest… A reader sent in this absolutely hilarious Avis commercial featuring XM Satellite Radio. I don’t care what […]

Wanna download an entire set of photos off of Flickr? Don’t want to do it manually? This is your answer: Recently a friend started using Flickr which is a great service. I personally like to save pictures locally and selecting them one at a time to download was too much of a hassle so I […]

I just watched a recording of Frontline that covered the Meth epidemic. Its actually really fascinating. I recommend you watch it too, you can watch the whole program online here: FRONTLINE: the meth epidemic

Let this be known – I *LOVE* iFolder. For awhile it was hard to recommend and use becuase it was commercial only… you had to buy the server software, and it wasn’t cheap. But now, you can get iFolder for free! I’ve been using it to sync my bookmarks and documents across multiple PC’s… you […]

I (finally) received my Kyocera KR1 (made by D-link) today after waiting for it for about two months. It was worth the wait. This thing is awesome. Its completely plug and play. You slide in your EVDO card, then you fire it up (AC or DC with the included car adapter) and you’re on your […]

Hell has officially frozen over… Apple® today introduced Boot Camp, public beta software that enables Intel-based Macs to run Windows XP. Available as a download beginning today, Boot Camp allows users with a Microsoft Windows XP installation disc to install Windows XP on an Intel-based Mac®, and once installation is complete, users can restart their […]

I’m getting lots of messages (email, IM, sms, etc…) regarding my new grid hosting company, so I decided to post some facts: Fact #1: Clustering on PS2’s is very real, in fact, the NCSA has constructed a PlayStation 2 Linux cluster as a test bench for scientific computation. From PlayStation 2: Computational Cluster: The cluster […]

Lots of people have been asking me what I’ll be doing now that I’m no longer working at Rackspace full time. I don’t feel like explaining the entire business in detail, but I’ve had a fascination with grid computing and the virtualization of software services across computational clusters for sometime Additionally, anyone who knows me, […]