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The iPhone Hotel Room Baby Monitor, part 1

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 [...]

Ah, the memories…

Can’t wait to boot into OS9 on the rebuit iMac and install this baby…

An On-Record Prediction

In five years, in late 2013, the notion of a global scientific consensus about the severity of global warming will be shattered, and governments will no longer introduce legislation to limit carbon emissions.  I know I’m not the first to say this, but I’m just going on record.

Who says I can’t be on two missions?

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 [...]

“…they’re not hurting anybody…”

Speaking of Proposition 8, I was having a quick conversation the other day with a dear friend in California about the success of the ballot measure.  She had worked for its defeat, and was understandably dismayed by the results, given that her preferred presidential candidate won California so handily.  She had said (and I’m paraphrasing [...]

Finally, a celebrity protest I can get behind!

(cross-posted at GoingJohnGalt.org) While I certainly hope the travesty of California’s Proposition 8 is short-lived, it will be something to see if celebrities stick to their guns in case the injustice continues.  I would love to see a tax showdown, but I fear that the State of California will have to crack down just on [...]

Hardening MAMP for easy, secure WordPress hosting on Mac

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 [...]

That was a nice nap…

So I had just gotten some work done setting up a new blog (details to follow) when it occurred to me that it wouldn’t be an ideal place for personal posts. I wondered if maybe I should/could dust off the old TKIA blog, upgrade it, and set it up for use with WordPress’ blogging app [...]