Last night I attended Ignite Seattle, a technology gathering unlike any I’ve seen before. Imagine 200 people packed in like sardines to watch a list of a diverse group of 25 people give rapid-fire talks to a captive, tech-savvy audience.
Anyone who knows PowerPoint presentations knows that a “five-minute presentation” after including setup time, switching […]
Google made its Transit feature available for Seattle, though it’s still in “Labs” (Google-speak for “alpha”) form. I can see why: to go from my office to my mechanic, Google advises that I first walk down to 6th Avenue South. To do that Google suggests that I walk through the park, down a […]
I do own a television. During the week I usually watch about an hour’s worth of TV a day, give or take. Beside the TV is a small storage unit with about 50 DVD boxes, many of which contain season box sets of TV shows I really like. Beneath the TV is […]
I’ve had a mailbox at a local UPS Store, formerly Mail Boxes Etc., since I moved here a few weeks ago. It’s proven very useful for receiving mail and packages I’d normally need to sign for, and it’s given me an address that will follow me even after I move to my “permanent” housing […]
I’ve been playing with Ask.com Maps (use Firefox or Internet Explorer; Safari isn’t supported) for a few weeks now and I’ve been pretty impressed. It supports several features that Google Maps doesn’t (multiple waypoints, walking directions, right-click support to add a waypoint right on the map) and it has no ads. Inspired, I […]
Right now I’m at 1177 North Highland Avenue in Pittsburgh. How do I know? My phone told me.
Actually my phone, a Motorola v325, is wrong. Enrico’s Tazza d’Oro is located at 1125 North Highland, not 1177. Nevertheless, if I wanted to go somewhere else, it could probably navigate me there pretty […]
Apparently my LiveJournal account was hit by the recent “bantown” cross-site scripting attack. Thanks to Mav for pointing this out. Apparently my interests and e-mail address were both changed and LiveJournal responded by suspending my account. All this to gain control over a journal that I hadn’t ever used for original content. […]
Visit this news story between 9:30 AM and 4:00 PM EST during a weekday. I really don’t care about the content of the story — I’m just amazed that those stock prices tick in “real-time” (15-20 minutes delayed, but they still update as time goes on). That’s really cool. I wish more […]
While watching the season premiere of 24 last night, my Comcast cable box (a Motorola DCT6412) froze up on me. This is not new behavior, and it is not behavior that Comcast’s support staff knows how to fix without simply advising a reboot. I let the episode record to completion and watched the rest of it today. I then wrote the following letter to Comcast regarding their lousy cable box.
I am happy tonight. My PowerBook now eeps with displeasure. I found a link to the Mac OS Classic Sound Pack which includes all the classic sound effects that, for whatever reason, never got incorporated into Mac OS X.
Eep?