February 2008
Beers with great friends at l:Woodward Avenue Brewery
January 2008
undefated curling reason
…hopefully not for the last time
Leaving Ann Arbor
neogeo meeting in l:Brighton, MI
migrating from coffee to telecon, and then onto lunch meeting
annoyed by the cosmic law that states you find a cheaper price for something the day after it arrives.
glad I’m not stranded in the airport/train stations of Beijing http://tinyurl.com/ytu5oz
hrm, no coffee in the house - I think we’d be in crisis mode… if I had the energy for it
for the record, the Mapstraction mailing list has migrated to http://tinyurl.com/2h453c
hrm, methinks LonelyPlanet has something odd with their KML output, I don’t think that’s the Austrian Embassy http://tinyurl.com/28njh6
parallels failed me, moving on to vmware
partitioning for parallels
@jweise Mail.app is unusable for me - I’ve even let it run overnight but each time I try to read an email it takes > 1 min to load it
howto.veryspatial.com →
just received an email from Amazon that someone sent us a gift from our Baby Registry, didn’t know we were expecting, apparently A thinks so
getting all kinds of OpenStreetMap goodies installed for building Sudan maps for my garmin
@DruidSmith hey, at least your state is allowed to vote! We got banned, how’s that for disenfranchisement?
hrm, GMail advertisement in Arabic, makes me even more curious about G’s targeting algorithms
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hrm, N810 has USB On-The-Go (OTG), craziness. Bipolar USB http://tinyurl.com/2on78j
N810 problem solved, it was Safari corrupting the file on download - however, the N810 has a *unique* USB connector? Why Nokia? It hurts!
hrm, still stuck - OS X flasher says “Bad CPU type in executable” on both PPC and Intel boxes
hrm, Leopard got rid of the “Force to run in Rosetta” for PPC applications, where did it go?
wtf? the n810 ships with old os - and requires a firmware update, which requires Windows?
wondering why DjangoPeople and DjangoGigs don’t have GeoRSS or KML output? c’mon @swillison, sleeping on the job? ;)
hunting down stray indexers
Finally got time to write up some preliminary impressions of china - now with photos! http://tinyurl.com/2gvkth
Scio Residents for Safe Water →
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trying to write an ‘academic paper’ - I’ve been too long in the land of general prose and blogging.
new Nokia N810 arrived, time to give the built-in gps a test-run
Ask E.T.: Interface design and the iPhone →
A VC: Rethinking The Local Paper →
Good post and especially long discussion on local news aggregation
@mcknut rendition, version, variation (variant), mutation (probably not good), permutation
lazy-twitter: looking for sublets in the SF (mission/castro) area for late Feb-March, any leads? (other than CL)
nevermind, user error - hidden fields PEBKAC
reproducible bug in the basic adding of my bank program - this seems like a *bad* bug
funday doing accounting
Hackit: Your ultimate hacking workbench - Hack a... →
CESAR - Computer Executed Semi-Autonomous Robot →
More Wifi Finder Reverse Engineering →
trying out iTunes rental service “the item is being modified please try again later”? Is the director fixing it or something?
cars & cars & cars at the l:Detroit Auto Show. Anyone want a Bentley? How about a Mazerati? Only several hundred… thousand
more packing, hopefully for the last time in a very long while - one can have dreams…
having to dig through some Perl code to figure out a web service, blech
@TheSteve0 ergo “absurd” - recently saw one on realtime images in a mobile display for augmented reality
More absurd patents: ‘geofencing’ http://tinyurl.com/2fcwmw
OpenEnvironmentalData - Open Knowledge Foundation... →
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cat is entirely too reliable alarm clock for being an hour early
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