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After laying down for bed, I had an epiphany last night and got up and based away at the keyboard for a bit. Luckily, the effort wasn’t wasted, as I was able to fix the issue that caused the problem in the first place. The long story boiled down is that the ThickBox can find [...]

I’m flying BOS to PDX via Alaskan and they have wi-fi on the flight. This is the first time I’ve been able to partake in in-flight internet and it’s simply awesome. The only said thing is that they don’t have power – so when my battery dies, that’s that. I’ve dialed down as much as [...]

I have to say, traveling with an iPhone is pretty damn awesome. There’s very little that I couldn’t do with an iPhone that I do on my laptop. If I was so inclined, I could make this post with my iPhone, but I just happen to be on my laptop and it’s that much faster [...]

I just downloaded a wordpress app for the iPhone and seeing how well it works. So far, it’s pretty slick. Later, if this goes smoothly, I’ll figure out how it works with images. Definitely neat!

I bought an iPhone last night. I have no complaints about the device thus far — I’m rather happy. More on that later. I was asked to take a survey in my email this morning. Surprising for only being awake 15 minutes, I felt like contributing. Click for a larger image. Seriously, this is one [...]

Many people that read this probably know that I do tech work/support for BME from time to time. Starting at 1900 on 20091101, the community site IAM kinda went haywire. What’s somewhat unique about IAM is that it leverages native win32 binaries on the server side. They’re not scripts that a JIT compiler reads or [...]

I’ve been “getting back into” Lego recently. I have always been a huge Lego fan since I was a kid. I still have a giant tub of Lego from when I was younger and I’ve been recently buying new sets and having a great time with it. I tend to gravitate towards building more interactive [...]

I have a TON of old messages to clean up in a maildir style directory. I don’t want to just delete them, but I do need to clear some space. Unfortunately, setting up a mail account to download and delete them will take forever. A few Google searches have revealed this fun tool: cleanup-maildir. USAGE [...]

Years and many site revisions ago, I used to have a very basic haiku page on my site. People could submit their own haiku and bring up random haiku that were submitted previously. The only problem that I had was that either people couldn’t count or they had a different idea on the classic haiku [...]

I’ve been quite obsessed with Lego in the recent past. Frankly, I’ve been obsessed with Lego for more than 20 years, but the recent past has seen a resurgence in that obsession. Not that long ago, I shot a time-lapse of a Lego 8294 Excavator build. It was a fun learning experience (the shoot), but [...]