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Today I’ve been reading a book called Mind Hacks, from O’Reilly (the people who do all the animal books). Lots of fun stuff in here. I particularly liked this bit, in a section called Mapping your Blind Spot:
Here’s a fun way of playing with your blind spot. In a room of people, close [...]

Ran across this thing while poking around for information on cell phone hacking. How awesome is that? I want one, but I’m not about to pay $400 for it. The specs and firmware are available on the site, though, so it might make a fun project.

I was digging through one of my boxes o’ stuff the other day. If you’re a tech geek, you probably already have a pretty good idea of what I mean by boxes o’ stuff, but for the uninitiated, I should explain a bit.

Okay, so the Netflix plugin broke, but only halfway. The recent stuff works fine, but the queue stopped working, and it’s got me pretty much stymied. It worked fine last week, and the RSS feed still appears to work fine, and the code never changed, but – bizarrely – it’s throwing errors now. [...]

A few thoughts and resources for anyone thinking about using a Palm as a mobile library.

I am dying to try iPod linux… unfortunately they’re still working the bugs out of the 4G iPod builds, so my iPod photo will have to wait a bit before I introduce it to Tux.
In the meantime I guess I will settle with hacking the firmware which looks pretty straightforward. It’ll mean wiping the [...]

So today I took the time I should have spent watching two Netflix DVDs that have been sitting here for a week and instead added a plugin to show my recent Netflix movies and a handful of the ones at the top of my queue. You’ll see the DVD boxes on the sidebar, toward [...]

Well, the bad news is another sleepless night. Definitely having trouble sleeping lately.
The good news is that these last couple of nights have been relatively productive. When you get a minute, check out the integrated image gallery (powered by Gallery2 with the WPG2 plugin). There’s a couple of ways to [...]

Using other people’s PHP scripts is sometimes a bad idea. I was irritated by the clearly-not-really-random output of the random image box so I went in to look at the code, and as it turned out it was using a really hokey clearly-not-really-random seed, so after replacing it with mt_rand() I am finding the [...]