Uploading your content to Facebook
/* I mention this every so often to people, but it’s probably best you read it yourself so that you know the specifics about what happens when you upload your photos to facebook. Here is an excerpt...
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Larry Lessig speaks at TED
Photo by Peter Kaminski I invite you to listen to Larry Lessig’s brief and focussed talk at TED back in March on How creativity is being strangled by the law. It provides an illuminating perspective...
View ArticleCool Stuff at Maker Faire 2008
Here’s a wrapup of some of the cool stuff I saw at the Maker Faire yesterday. Kris, my dad, my uncle Kevin, a family friend Steve, and myself went. Crayon Physics Deluxe is a physics puzzle computer...
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That should be an Apple ad
This morning I decided to take public transit to work so that I could watch part of a movie that I’d converted to iPhone format on the way. I’d been looking forward to watching Lakai Fully Flared for...
View ArticleThis is what you call a good communicator
I saw this video on digg and enjoyed it a lot. This is Officer Leroy Pyle out of San Jose clearly and simply detailing the confusion over fully and semi automatic weapons. It’s clear why this guy is a...
View ArticleNorth Circular
While taking the bus from Stansted, UK to London we drove along North Circular Road for some time. A quarter of all of the houses along the two or three mile stretch we were driving along were...
View ArticleConnected
Sometimes I’m briefly shocked by the change in technology that has occurred in such a short time. I’m watching a video of an intro to git (a software version control system) and in it the guy, while...
View ArticleWhy Lastpass is a great piece of software that sucks
I am a big proponent and supporter of Lastpass. I’ve used for about 3 years now and have many hundreds of credentials in my Lastpass vault. At the moment I think it’s the best software out there for...
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Marine Technology
This morning was very foggy. In my daily ferry trip to work I learned a little about marine technology. I had assumed that, here in the 21st century, ships, like the ferry I ride to work, used some...
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Time for Security!
Starting next Monday I’ll begin my new job as a Cloud Security Engineer here at Mozilla! I’m really excited about this new role. I get to work with some super talented guys, many of whom I’m already...
View ArticleHow to increase the session expiration time in Subsonic
Here’s how you can increase the length of a session in Subsonic from the default of 30 minutes to something longer. In this example I’m increasing it to 2 weeks (20160 minutes). mkdir workspace cd...
View ArticleHow to run Pro Tools First under Linux for free
Pro Tools First is a version of Avid Pro Tools which can be used for free. It’s limited in what it can do but for many applications is just fine. Pro Tools First and all of Avid’s line of digital audio...
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How to make your own furniture safety straps
You can buy furniture safety strap kits for about $10 a kit which will secure one bookshelf. If you need to secure many bookshelves buying one kit per bookshelf becomes expensive. Here’s how to make...
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Is it possible Spotify support is run by some kind of millennial AI?
I recently noticed that the release date of an album on Spotify was incorrect (Ani DiFranco’s Reckoning/Revelling came out in 2001 not 1997) so I let them know in their contact us page. I then got...
View ArticleSocial Networks in 2019
I started the 30 day process of deleting my Facebook account yesterday. I think I've weaned myself from the platform (I was mainly a lurker in the past) but we'll see, maybe I'll go crawling back....
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