One of my favorite games will be back again. I find it slightly disturbing that there is a sentence in this article which reads "if you are too young to remember…"
Day: May 17, 2006
Hacking the Roomba
The Roomba has made playing with robotics at home easier than The Hero ever did! Roombas are fun to watch and websites abound about Hacking the Roomba. There is even a streaming vaccuum cam sitting on a Roomba to let you watch the world from a Roomba’s point of view.
Understand Net Neutrality
Understand that the Internet you know and love is being threaten. Take 6.5 minutes to watch this video to better understand net neutrality and why you should be in touch with your representative in Washington.
UPDATE: Be sure to watch this one also which presents the other side of the debate. Here’s a comment I just made at Say Uncle:
I think that link should be balanced with the other side.
Knowing the Internet on the technical side as intimately as I do, I think both videos leave out critical information. I’m still weighing my thoughts on the issue. Right now I think the 6.5 minute video in favor of regulation presents better arguments. The hands off video is more strongly deceptive in making people think that Google and the giants are getting a free ride which they aren’t. They have to pay for connectivity just like the rest of us and bandwidth at their magnitude can get expensive. Any small time publisher that has found the front page of Instapundit, Digg, Slashdot, BoingBoing or the rest knows the pain.
I still have to think this one over.
Woohoo! Aardvark is working again. CSS troubleshooting is easier.
For you developers out there troubleshooting CSS, Aardvark is an extension for Firefox which greatly helps troubleshoot your css since it will show the elements with labels. Aardvark is not listed on Mozilla’s official list of extensions which typically means that the extension is not completely compatible with Firefox, sloppy, or the developer just didn’t submit it. I like Aardvark but had to quit using it when Firefox released version 1.5. Only today did I realize that Aardvark had a new release.
I definitely recommend adding Aardvark to your list of development tools!
Lookout Flickr!
Riya brings an interesting angle to photosharing and album management. Riya uses facial recognition to automatically name the people in your photos. Now when you take 500 pictures on a family vacation you can upload the photos and search for all photos containing a particular person. Very nice! Riya is currently in an unstable beta. Flickr should buy them.
Observing our world
Life is so beautiful!
Boston Legal Sweeps Show Awesome!
My mantra, "What would Alan Shore do?" comes from my second favorite television show, Boston Legal. Minor spoiler ahead.
Last night’s episode was for May sweeps and was exceptional. I liked seeing the Alan and Denny in Los Angeles although I thought Alan’s case wasn’t all that challenging. The prosecution just didn’t make any decent agrument. For me, the highlight of the show was William Shatner breaking the fourth wall with Shirley for the kiss. That caught me totally off guard. I was equally as surprised when James Spader jumped in on the game to reference "next season" with Shatner’s followup question of "same night?" and Spader’s response, "God I hope so." Well played guys!
