A common saying you hear now a days in arguments about piracy is “I think people should get paid for their creative work”. Yeah, well I don’t. I think you should get paid for how well the free market likes you and decides to pay you. It is your job to figure out how [...]
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What are you doing, Boxee Box?
<rant>Its been almost a year since I started using my Boxee Box. Here are the new features I have noticed Spotify Support Grooveshark Support Netflix Support Things they made WORSE Pandora — used to have an awesome visualizer and play for hours, now has a terrible visualizer and the darn thing freezes up after an [...]
Track Racing on the East Coast
I finally made it to a track this weekend., and had an amazing time! There are a bunch of things I learned in general about track racing through this experience, as far as logistics of how to actually do it. General Info Tracks rent out in time intervals, at the rate of thousands of dollars [...]
HID Kits, Xenon Bulbs and Halogen headlamps — The Story
So I’ve done a handful of research lately on halogen and Xenon lights. Below is a basic summary of my findings when investigating (and eventually buying) replacements for my stock Halogen headlamps in my 2006 Mercedes C55 AMG. Disclaimer: I pulled this together from bits and pieces here and there. I do not claim to [...]
One way to do Django on AppEngine
Disclaimer: I work for Google. Any and all opinions expressed or interpreted below are mine own and not that of my employer. I’ve built dozens webapps in the past 10 years (thats right, i was writing web apps at 13) using all sorts of tools. It started with raw HTML and spaghetti code perl. Then [...]
Trying out the Nexus S
I got a Nexus S today, and here are my initial thoughts, when comparing it to my Nokia N900. No LED indicator light. This is driving me nuts. It’s rather jarring to not be able to look at my device and know whether or not it needs my attention. It’s FAST! Opening applications is instantaneous, [...]
Introducing the Personal *nix Cluster Manager
I was at home this holiday, with the family enjoying the Thanksgiving Holiday. I was messing around with stuff on my netbook and realized I wanted files from my desktop back in my apartment. Only problem was — I have no idea what my IP is back there (I moved recently). I’m also too [...]
AMD Joins Meego with Nokia and… Intel?
Source Press Release Wow. My first thought was “What, AMD and Intel working together?” My second thought was “Awesome! More people behind Meego!” My third thought was “Wait, AMD is supporting a software platform? That’s new.” One at a time: First — Intel and AMD both understand that they are in the fight for [...]
A Must Watch: Barack Obama’s Post-Election Press Conference
I do recommend downloading the mp4 and watching at 2-3x speed though… a bit slow otherwise. http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/11/03/president-obama-s-press-conference-lets-find-those-areas-where-we-can-agree Some great questions and responses from Barack: What I feel is accurately describing WHY america is so frustrated with the current political situation “In such a hurry to get things don’t we didn’t get a chance to reform [...]
The People Bug Tracker: bugs.zachgoldberg.com
I mentioned a few posts back that bugs.zachgoldberg.com would come around, and after a lot of procrastination it is finally here! First things first — a couple thank yous and relavent links are in order: dreamhost, for making the one-click-install so utterly painless edgewall for providing trac as open and free software The guy at [...]
