Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Friday, January 16th, 2009
The day after Thanksgiving, I took advantage of some great Internet deals and got myself a new unibody Macbook Pro. I opted for one with only 2GB of RAM and also ordered two 2GB sticks of Crucial RAM from Newegg, since it's much cheaper to buy and install them yourself ...
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
This past weekend, I got my Wii Guitar Hero guitar talking to my Arduino prototyping board. There is a decent amount of information on the net on how to accomplish this with the Wii Nunchuk (specifically, here and here) but as far as I could tell, none for the Wii ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
For the past few months, the headphone jack on my 2nd-generation Dell DJ portable audio player has been acting up. More specifically, I haven't been able to get any sound out of the left channel unless I pulled the headphone cable tight towards the back of the player and wound ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
I've spent a good portion of the last two nights soldering/assembling the ProtoShield for my new Arduino microcontroller board and building some of the projects included in this set of tutorials. While none of these are necessarily earth-shattering, they've been fun and have encouraged me to eventually take on larger ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Over the past few weeks, I've been reading books on electronics and do-it-yourself hardware projects. I've also ordered myself a microcontroller kit, a multimeter, a soldering station, and a few of the other accessories required to get underway on some of the basic projects I am interested in.
I've always thought ...
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Friday, October 12th, 2007
I've been loosely following the news and associated backlash about the Google "trademarks team's" decision to block a series of anti-MoveOn.org ads applied for by a company that does marketing for Republican Sen. Susan Collins’ re-election campaign. I have no idea whether these ads actually violate Google's policy or not, ...
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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
For months now, I've been claiming that I was going to purge all instances of Microsoft Windows from my home network. This initiative began last year with dumping Windows XP on my workstation for Ubuntu 7.04 and then getting rid of my Windows XP Media Center Edition PC in my ...
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
I am a big fan of APIs and the snazzy mashups they make possible. In case you are unfamiliar with what an API is, go here. In the past I've played around with several APIs (mostly using Perl) including Google Maps', Yelp's, and Digg's.
Today an article surfaced on the front ...
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Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
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It was pretty funny watching literally thousands of stories pouring into Digg yesterday containing the magical HD-DVD "unlock key", in response to the initial story getting pulled after some 20,000 diggs. I guess Digg really ...
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Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
Tonight I installed Beryl on my workstation at home. Beryl is, according to their site, "a combined window manager and composite manager written in C using OpenGL to provide acceleration." Translation: It makes the Linux desktop look KICK-ASS. There are probably many 3D goodies that I haven't yet seen in ...
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