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Who Has Two Thumbs and Loves Their Fisher Space Pen?
My company has a contract with NASA. Eight years or so ago I visited NASA’s Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland on company business. I thought it was pretty cool, so to mark the occasion I bought a Fisher Space … Continue reading
Portableapps.com – Apps that run from a USB drive
For Christmas my wife got me a SanDisk 32MB GB SanDisk thumbdrive. (Thanks, babe!). I carry it on my keychain. I’ve been stocking it up with installers for various apps I like to have handy to install on whatever computer … Continue reading
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1959 Chevy Hitting a 2009 Chevy
Video. Love the old cars for their looks, not for their safety.
There’s more to network security testing than software…
says my colleague Stephen Haywood, in his article on network penetration testing.
Kindle Reader December Sales
4 million Kindles sold this Christmas. The Fire was the top seller followed by the Touch.
Splash Safari Case for Amazon Kindle Fire
I bought the Splash Safari Case for the Kindle Fire. It’s a minimalist, inexpensive case with two interior pockets. Cost is about $14. The only thing I can think of that it lacks is some kind of exterior closure to … Continue reading
Jakon Nielsen on the Kindle Fire
Kindle Fire Usability Findings: Mobile web sites work best on the 7-inch tablet. Users had great trouble touching the correct items on full sites, where UI elements are too small on the Fire screen.
Lileks ain’t crazy about his Kindle Fire
To say the least. Via Glenn. He’s especially not happy about the page-turning performance when reading books and the poor battery life compared to his regular Kindle. To be fair, nothing with an LCD screen is going to match the … Continue reading
More Kindle Reviews
Alan has a review. So does Ace of Spades, Walt Mossberg at the WSJ, and Engadget. I’ll say this as a comment on how much my kids like it. I’ve already had to referee their first big fight over who … Continue reading
Kindle Fire First Impressions, Using it With Children
UPS delivered the Kindle Fire the day it was released. First impressions after getting some feedback from co-workers and using it at home with the kids: Interface-wise, there’s a power button, headphone jack, and a microUSB for charging and connectivity. … Continue reading
My Kindle Fire will be here tomorrow, Tuesday the 15th
The official release date is the 15th, which was when mine was supposed to ship, with delivery on the 17th. I got notice that the order has already shipped. Amazon says it will be here on the 16th, but UPS … Continue reading
Frank Miller
“A lesson I’ve learned in writing science fiction is that the best way to predict the course of technology is to make a wish. We humans make wishes come true. That’s why we drive horseless carriages and land on the … Continue reading
Amazon Kindle Fire is on its way
Someone asked if I was going to order the Amazon Kindle Fire I blogged about and that’s a roger. I ordered it the next day. November 15th is the release date. Amazon is saying mine will arrive the 17th. Kindle … Continue reading
Any reason I shouldn’t buy the Amazon Kindle Fire for my kids?
I’ve been batting around the idea of getting the kids a tablet computer for a while now. Something that’s easy for them to use, lets them play their stuff (Facebook-based Flash games and Poptropica, mostly), and that won’t get infested … Continue reading
Six months with Energizer rechargeable batteries
With a camera/audio/AV habit and the children of my fertile loins we go through lots of batteries in my house. For years I’ve been buying disposables in bulk at Home Depot since they seem to have the best prices. Last … Continue reading
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Deer Googal, Plz Steel Moar Copywrites
I like watching music videos and I like reading song lyrics. Right now I have to get my copyright violations from two different places. The videos come from YouTube (owned by Google) and the lyrics from some other place, which … Continue reading
Backdoors in Chinese-made Defense Chips
Business Insider – The Navy Bought Fake Chinese Microchips That Could Have Disarmed U.S. Missiles: Last year, the U.S. Navy bought 59,000 microchips for use in everything from missiles to transponders and all of them turned out to be counterfeits … Continue reading
Light Painting with WiFi Signals, Programmable LEDs
Immaterials: Light painting WiFi (OR, Because Norwegian Winters are Long and People Get Bored and Do Cool Stuff): In order to study the spatial and material qualities of wireless networks, we built a WiFi measuring rod that visualises WiFi signal … Continue reading
WordPress RSS Feed Errors Fixed, Feedburner-powered Twitter Feed Working Again
Everything works now. You can skip the rest of this post unless you’re having the same problem and need a fix.
L’il CSS Help?
OR, CSS Got Me Into This Mess and I’ll Bet It Can Get Me Out I’ve got a new theme on the blog. There’s an effect I want that I can’t quite get. I’ve got a background picture. I’ve got … Continue reading
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