To anticipate and prevent
In the weeks preceding Maker Faire, feelings went from excitement, to nervousness to frustration and finally to the pleasant relief that it was here. As for the Faire itself? What more is there to say than it was awesome! So without further adieu, my brief wrap up of the events of Maker Faire…
You might have heard, Google managed to grab 600GB of data from open WiFi access points. Wow! An entire 600GB Google’s been downplaying it, because it isn’t a big deal. Do you realize how little data, 600GB is? Me, as a single individual, I’ve got TBs in hard drives on my computers. I could spend…
West Entrance to Maker Faire 08 Are you in the Bay Area? Do you have some free time this weekend? If so, come on down to the Maker Faire at the San Mateo County Fairground. It will be all sorts of kick ass. Past years have featured some of the following: Giant Tesla coils, fire…
If you’re predominantly a user of Identi.ca (or any StatusNet install), getting your messages to Twitter is a piece of cake. All you need to do is login, go to Connect, then go to Twitter. Enable and your done. If you’re like me and predominantly on Twitter, getting your messages to Identi.ca isn’t nearly as…
Before we start. For those that don’t know what tea bagging is, take a look at Wikipedia entry (NSFW) or Urban Dictionary. In video games to “tea bag” someone means you repeatedly crouch on the head of their corpse. Tea bagging in Bad Company 2 is something I find amusing. Not in the act of…
Let me share a bit of history for those that don’t know me. When I was young, that is to say very, very young (IE up to about 2nd grade), I was a very angry child. I was what they call a “Roman candle”, the littlest spark would set me off into a huge storm…