December 24th, 2008 — Uncategorized
George Carlin explains why he still performed into his 70s, why he considers himself a Writer and Artist above all, and is not comfortable with the term "entertainer". The lesson he takes from Pablo Cassals.. "I'm starting to notice some improvement"…
The below video is 30 minutes and is part six of a seven-part interview with Carlin by the Archive of American Television.
December 22nd, 2008 — Uncategorized
Until the day you have persistent wifi availability this isn't going to replace your cell phone, but it's a neat trick. I'm hoping we can use this in Europe to place phone calls in a pinch.
December 15th, 2008 — Uncategorized
I've tested this on my MacBook and it works. With the Mac version you can even have photos of your thief sent you you. Watch the video below to get started and then download the software. It should take you about 10 minutes to get this installed and running.
November 30th, 2008 — Uncategorized
A quick trip to southeastern Ohio for Thanksgiving (447 miles, 48.2 MPG in the Prius) and this is the only photo I made the entire weekend.
A photo that never made it to the blog since we talking politics in this post.
November 13th, 2008 — Uncategorized
New York Times tech writer David Pogue's fretting about the loss of Firewire from the low-end Apple laptop and the probability that he would be able to edit his home movies going forward lead to a post asking why we shoot videos (and photos) in the first place.
This is something I've pondered for a long time.
November 3rd, 2008 — Politics
The last image was taken in Akron, Ohio.
October 28th, 2008 — Uncategorized
Most people buy a wireless router like this Linksys and move on. Of course you can hack that Linksys, but sometimes you either want to play or have an old computer you can put back into service as a router/firewall/NAT box.
Let's take a look at pfSense, a FreeBSD-based project for our firewall, and learn how to set it up.
October 25th, 2008 — Uncategorized
My white MacBook is from the first run of 1.83GHz machines from May of 2006. I don't depend on it for anything more than couch surfing and on-the-go computing. It has been back to Apple several times early on for issues, but once those were resolved the machine has been pretty reliable.
Until now.
October 7th, 2008 — Uncategorized
I came across good information I wanted to share about checking the power levels of your Roadrunner cable modem service. If you have have problems you will want to keep reading.
August 11th, 2008 — Photos, Toyota Prius
The images above were taken during a weekend trip to Gatlinburg, Tennessee to attend a wedding. The images also live in the 2008 Gallery if you care to see any notes on an individual photograph.
This is the longest roadtrip yet in the Toyota Prius. From Akron we went through Charleston, West Virginia on the way down. On the way back we visited a friend of Ann's in Celina, Tennessee and came back via Cincinnati. That's 1,210 miles and we averaged 51.3MPG according to the MFD.