I noticed in the comment thread to this post (h/t Donald Heath) that there is a second live video broadcasting app for the iPhone, Qik. I was already aware of Ustream’s app, and both support other smartphone platforms, and there’s very likely other solutions out there as well. This is part of an important trend [...]
I was engaged in a task that I thought would be facilitated by a shoe horn. But then it occurred to me that I haven’t seen a shoe horn in well over 20 years. I bet I can find one at Walmart today though. I wonder what exciting advancements have been made in shoe horn [...]
So for no really defensible reason, I’ve decided to take the old blog out of mothballs. Partly, I’m curious about exploring the new set of integration tools that have been developed to bridge the gap between Facebook and the still-popular WordPress and Twitter. In particular, comment management is a tricky issue, and I want to [...]
In the spirit of taking months off at a time for other endeavors, I present something that cracks me up from the funny guys at homestarrunner.com: It’s from this Wii game, oh hell, there’s no point in explaining. I just think it’s funny. Enjoy it at 480p.
In order to use the iPhone Hotel Room Baby Monitor setup I described in part 1 in situations when you’re not behind a friendly router (such as in an actual hotel room), a little advance preparation is required. You’ll need a computer on your home network that you can leave on (or one that you [...]
I had a cool idea the other night. My wife and I have been in hotels with the kids before, feeling trapped in the room once they’ve gone to bed. You’re stuck because you can’t leave them unmonitored, and you can’t make noise inside the room, because you’re in close quarters with a bunch of [...]
Can’t wait to boot into OS9 on the rebuit iMac and install this baby…
I’m a man on a mission. Or I guess multiple missions. One is my very gently ramping up mission to save the world. But I have another mission with a slightly tighter focus. In 1995, The Residents and Voyager release a CD-ROM interactive “game” of sorts called Freak Show. My friend Joe (who worked for [...]
I just set up a new blog the other day using MAMP, the same Macintosh-Apache-MySQL-PHP distribution that this blog runs on. And although the latest version is more than a year old, and they explicitly state that “MAMP was created primarily as a PHP development environment for Macintosh computer and should therefore not be used [...]