Category Archive for 'Ramblings'

Softreset

Sunday, July 24th, 2005

You know, owning my Treo650 reminds me of my initial experiences of Windows NT – by which you were better off rebooting NT once a day so it wouldn’t crash unexpectedly. I wonder if this little handy app will reboot the Treo on a schedule: Summary: Simple Tool to Soft Reset the PALM PDA without […]

RssFwd

Saturday, July 23rd, 2005

You may have noticed the link in the Subscribe section of the right-hand sidebar… for those of you who have not adopted RSS yet, you can now subscribe to my blog via email. Just click on it, and follow the instructions. 🙂 This site allows anyone to subscribe to any RSS / Atom feed and […]

NCE

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

I can’t decide if these guys are really cool, or just nuts… NCE was established in 1983 to design & build convertibles, that represent the highest standards of automotive design quality & craftmanship. Newport Convertible Engineering Notable convertible conversions that you should check out in their gallery are: Cadillac Escalade Ford F350 Lincoln Limo Convertible […]

MythTV

Friday, July 22nd, 2005

Turns out that if you’ve got four tuners in your MythTV box you should probably get 1gig memory… now that I’ve bumped it up to 1gig from 256mb, the UI is much more responsive and the commerical flagging is completing much quicker. 🙂

Google

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

As Emril would say – “BAM!” Google missed their earnings… beginning of the end? Stock is already down by $23 in the afterhours… Oh no! It appears they earned 1.19 Vs. an estimate of $1.22.

Autoshow In Motion

Thursday, July 21st, 2005

This is going on all over the country: General Motors is inviting consumers in your area to participate in a unique driving experience. It’s an opportunity for you and your guests to experience most of General Motors’ vehicle line up and actually drive them head to head against some of the primary competition. We provide […]

HW6515 Demo

Monday, July 18th, 2005

I’m so close to getting my hands on a hw6515… but meanwhile you can check out most of the features in the flash emulator of it: HP iPAQ hw6515 with Windows Mobile Software

Bootleg RSS: TV Edition

Saturday, July 16th, 2005

Bootleg RSS: TV Edition is a neat new way of using RSS. Here you will find a collection of television channel listings for a large selection of channels sorted by timezone. All these feeds are valid RSS 2.0 that you can stick into your favorite RSS reader or aggregator. Bootleg RSS: TV Edition

Weasel Words

Friday, July 15th, 2005

This has been bugging me for YEARS! Thank goodness I’m not the only one with this pet-peave. 🙂 : Email: ‘The word ’email’ or its variants such as ‘e-mail’ properly describes a system of communication electronically. It does not denote a message. So “I sent you an email” should more properly be “I sent you […]

Concurrent Sessions

Thursday, July 14th, 2005

I got this working on my XP Pro box and my Airpanel, works as stated. 🙂 … Windows XP does not allow concurrent sessions for its Remote Desktop feature. What this means is that if a user is logged on at the local console, a remote user has to kick him off (and ironically, this […]

Bose Triport Headphones

Wednesday, July 13th, 2005

I’ve been looking for a great pair of COMFORTABLE headphones for my iPod for quite some time now, and after some searching and listening I decided to get a pair of Bose Triport Headphones off of eBay… I ended up paying about $110 (including shipping) for a used blue pair, which beats the $149+tax+shipping street […]

Squid on Linksys

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005

I’ve always run Squid on my home linux router. But I recently went through an overhaul in my home office, and tried to silence everything and anything I could since all the whirring fans were so loud I couldn’t think. During that process I replaced my linux router with a Linksys WRT54GS and loaded it […]

Scheduled Posting

Monday, July 11th, 2005

Testing 1-2-3… if I understand how this works, this should post about 1p today. 🙂

Gallery & WP Integration

Monday, July 11th, 2005

Was the gallery thing hard to do? -Dirk Actually, not at all… just a PHP include. Here’s more info here on how to do it: http://www.gallery-addons.com/ You can find the specifc Newest Album code there, along with the older Random Block generator that ships with Gallery as of late.

Comments

Monday, July 11th, 2005

People have been complaining for some time now that comments were busted… in reality, I got so tired of comment-spam I just trashed the comment system so I wouldn’t have to deal with it anymore. As of now, I’ve re-enabled comments. Enjoy. 🙂

Text America

Monday, July 11th, 2005

I just learned that Text America finally supports RSS again. The RSS feed for my moblog is: http://riggedup.textamerica.com/rss.aspx So it looks like you just postpend “rss.aspx” on the end of any moblog on TA that you want to track.

WordPress

Monday, July 11th, 2005

Ok, I finally made the switch to WordPress. A few things I’ve learned: WP is pretty cool Most WP plugins are outdated Those WP plugins that aren’t outdated, are a pain in the ass to install There aren’t very many plugin’s worth installing You might want to update your RSS feed URLs, the new ones […]