Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in plans, privacy, technology, web sites on Jan 23rd, 2012
In the past I’ve avoided location-aware services, opting instead to conceal my location to all but my ISP, cellular provider, and whoever else might be capable and willing to find out.
2012 marks a departure from that stance.
Armed with a Nexus One, I’ve started using a few new services.
I’ve started to use foursquare to track my [...]
Some trending data from 2010, as provided by Google Analytics.
Most Popular Pages
These results don’t surprise me, since each of the pages (with the exception of the main page) addresses a fairly specific topic in depth for which there isn’t a lot of other data available (even years later). To me, this suggests that the search [...]
I find child prodigies to be enigmatic. Adora Svitak is no exception. Though perhaps smarter than most of the child (and perhaps adult) population, I found her talk from TED entitled What Adults Can Learn from Kids to be insightful and fun.
Sometimes all it takes is a really sharp individual to make people think about [...]
After a year with Amazon Prime, I’m renewing my membership. The convenience and savings — both time and money — make it more than worthwhile.
In the past year, I placed 23 distinct orders with Amazon that weren’t covered as part of my free trial to Prime. Each of the orders contained at least one item, [...]
Posted in advertising, in the news, web sites on May 6th, 2010
When a social media magnate needs cash, how do you go about it? Historically, options have been limited. You can sell advertising space in the form of banners or buttons. You can sell aggregate data about your users activities to marketers. You can hold a bake sale. Or you can sell off a chunk of [...]
Posted in photography, television, web sites on Jan 25th, 2010
I’ve been rediscovering things all weekend.
After a recommendation of a New York pal, I was looking at a “nifty fifty” lens for my camera. He said (and I’m paraphrasing slightly) that it changed his world. After taking a few unlit shots with a friends D80 on Friday evening and seeing how bloody crisp and fast [...]
Posted in photography, web sites on Jan 17th, 2010
In an attempt to educate myself, I’ve been reading through NK Guy’s Canon EOS Beginners’ FAQ. There’s a lot here.
While I stumbled upon it while looking for something else, there’s something about the writing style that’s comforting and inviting. I get the impression that the author could go over-the-top with technical jargon that would be [...]
A few site updates.
Since I don’t have a phone with Internet access and don’t have regular access during the workday, I don’t find Twitter all that useful. However, in the spirit of being an accessible person I’ve configured FeedBurner to tweet when new things are are published here. For those who follow Twitter moreso than [...]
I received an invitation to start using Google Wave this morning. Ironically, this is mere hours after reading about JJT not wanting an invite. I don’t remember asking for an invite, but I am a frequent user of their other services. I had to dust off my Google account as it doesn’t allow you to [...]
Posted in in the news, web sites on Sep 18th, 2009
The same night Amanda was photographed for the Baltimore Sun’s Glimpse column at Little Havana, we voted in the City Paper’s Best of Baltimore 2009 Reader Poll. More than a few of our picks just happened to win.
Artscape
Patterson Park
Washington, D.C.
Mayor Sheila Dixon
Sugar
Rocket To Venus
Scores
the Hippo
Fools & Horses
Artscape
WTMD-FM (89.7)
the Charles Theatre
Maryland Film Festival
Single Carrot Theatre
Given the [...]
Canabalt is a dead simple but extremely addicting Flash game. With simple graphics and an upbeat soundtrack, the game consists of jumping. That’s it.
No thanks to Rob, I’ll probably end up getting nothing accomplished tonight. I’m just shy of 5,000m.
Posted in technology, web sites on Aug 31st, 2009
For folks running on Windows, it can be difficult to tell what is real and what is bogus. The following web page was loaded on Firefox on Mac OS X, pop-up dialog boxes with animated status bars and all.
Though I wasn’t impacted at all, you can see why less saavy computer users can be fooled [...]
Posted in web sites on Jul 20th, 2009
If you employ bogon filtering on your firewalls or servers, make sure you check the IPv4 address space list from time to time.
Since February 2008 and as recently as March 2009, IANA has allocated 13 /8 blocks that were previously unallocated. Here’s the complete list of new allocations from 2008 onward.
2008-02 173/8
2008-02 174/8
2008-05 112/8
2008-05 113/8
2008-10 [...]
Posted in web sites on Jul 1st, 2009
Some friends recently went to Japan and took their HD Flip video camera. They made a very nice collage in iMovie of stills and video. Now it seems — thanks to my college roommate for sharing — that the camera works just as well in the cockpit of an F/A-18 Hornet doing maneuvers.
Though not specified [...]
Posted in life in general, web sites on Jun 17th, 2009
Though I’m usually a fan of Super Saver Shipping, I’m in the midst of a 30 day free trial of Amazon Prime. After a handful of orders I came to realize something.
Two-day shipping is awesome.
For two reasons, really.
Items arrive in two days.
Items arrive via UPS.
In my experience, UPS does a better job of handling packages [...]
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