Archives for: August 2007
Playing music in a car without an aux-in
While planning my photo trip around western Canada, high up on the priority list was what to listen to and how I was going to listen to it. I've moved on from tape and CD so try to use line-in where I can. Compared to every other method outside of… more »
The definition of "depressing"...
...is uploading your most excellent photos to Flikr, geotagging them, and then making the mistake of looking at everyone else's much better shots of the same content. more »
Game copy protection goes one better (worse?)
I'd not heard of this one until going through the Register's RSS feed. 2K Games (they of Civ 4 fame amongst others) put some copy protection on one of their new games that went a little above and beyond the usual. These days games typically have one or… more »
Spamese
Sometimes one receives spam that's worth repeating. This is one such.
Dear Mr.;
In fulfillment of the effective legislation referring to the protection of data and Spam:
We asked for its permission to him and authorization to send our commercial… more »
Freecom's MusicPal
I've been looking for a good replacement for the el-cheapo Sony alarm clock that awakes me to the dulcet tones of Radio Adam, and this could be it.
I wonder if it'll be for sale in Canada.
(Via Engadget) more »
RSS and the Blog
While looking through my logs for nimblebrain I noticed that I had a decent number of searches from Google (both .com and .ca domains) that had no associated search queries. Since I wasn't sure on how that worked I did some basic investigation.
One… more »
Bishop's "The Campus" goes online
I stumbled across the online version of Bishop's University's student newspaper, "The Campus." I was actually looking to see if the faculty and staff lockout at the university had been resolved (it has) but I'll take what I can get. I still have an… more »
Translation weirdities
While on Arcnet, a IRC-compatible channel populated by former Amigans, I made a slightly disparaging comment about wiener schnitzel. One of the resident German speakers responded with the word:
arschgeige
My German's a bit weak so I popped that into… more »
Wireless data pricing can be steep
Imagine you're used to American cellphone pricing which, while hardly free, is quite cheap. Imagine you've gone somewhere else which has a roaming agreement so you have service. Imagine you've not read the charge tariff.
Now imagine you're the proud… more »
Immortalize yourself in Lego
Well, not Lego per se, but you've seen the South Park character generator and people are pretty familiar with the Wii Mii's. Same thing, except it's a digital Lego minifig.
And no, you can't see the one I created for myself.
(Via Pharyngula) more »
A pox on cheap LED mice
I'm currently using an inexpensive Belkin USB optical mouse (F8E814-BLK-OPT.) It has a very annoying habit of sometimes randomly placing the pointer on screen when moved. As I'm using a four-headed workstation this means the arrow could be pretty much… more »
Electric bike
One of the more interesting technologies that's beginning to makes its presence known (again?) is that of the electric bicycle. If you're familiar with the older moped or bromfiets technologies you'll know where I'm going with this. There're two major… more »
Owned today, lost tomorrow
Just another data point on why DRM is bad for the purchaser.
(Via BoingBoing) more »
Wind-up MP3 player
This is a smart idea: the EMP-MX71 is an MP3 player (albeit bulky) powered by a wind-up motor rather than a standard battery. Naturally it was designed by the same person who came up with a wind-up radio, something else I thought was a good idea.
(Via… more »
That rather paints them into a corner
In one of the first sentences on the page describing the Mac Pro, "MyMacDealer" uses the unfortunate phrase:
Fastest Mac ever.
Well, I guess that's it over for the Macintosh. 3 GHz and it's never going to go faster. Ever.
Fortunately though,… more »
The Tech Commandments
I'm not sure how I missed this Joy Of Tech comic when it was initially published back in, well, I'm not sure really, but it's a good 'un. more »
"For the horde!"
Warcraft? The Australians are worried about "World of Warcraft" as a terrorist training program?
You could try to sell me on "Counterstrike" or "Battlefield 2" where you can at least create virtual environments to practice in. Quoting an online game… more »
What? Now?
I'm not much for the various leadership, productivity and self-actualization gurus -- being obliged to read Stephen Covey’s "Seven Habits Of Highly Effective People" was a rather trying period -- but sometimes their advice isn't all bad. This one I… more »
v2 of Microsoft's OSX Remote Desktop client out
Well, it's only a beta, but it's very nice to see. more »
You wouldn't like me when I'm angry...
Well, that's nice.
According to various scientific papers, as a left-hander I "can think more quickly when it comes to tasks such as playing computer games or playing sports."
The downside is that I'm a bit more likely to go psychotic while doing so… more »
