Because everyone is entitled to my opinion
Pocket Legends Archer Build Guide
Mar 15th
I found this great game that’s similar to World of Warcraft, is cheap, and playable on my Android mobile device and my PC (plays in the Google Chrome browser). The graphics are great and comparable to World of Warcraft graphics except the world is somewhat limited (imagine World of Warcraft dungeons with walls limiting the area you can travel in). The performance on my Droid Bionic and in the Google Chrome browser is very impressive too.
Anonymous and LulzSec Indictment Documents posted Online
Mar 6th
The Anonymous and LulzSec (Lulz Security) indictment documents are available for download on scribd. See embedded versions below.
Windows 8 on the Desktop
Mar 1st
I downloaded and installed the Windows 8 Consumer Preview on a VMWare virtual machine. I had a Windows 8 Technical Preview installed on the VM and the Windows 8 Consumer Preview happily installed on top of it. Installation went quite well although it took a couple of hours to complete (on a quad-core processor). Here’s a few screenshots taken during my walkthrough of the Windows 8 desktop system.
A homeless man and his dog
Feb 20th
I ran across this powerful picture which lead me to a bit of research on the homeless problem. Although difficult to measure, it is estimated that between 2.3 and 3.5 million people will experience homelessness.
Installing an Intrusion Detection System (IDS) and Reporting Interface
Feb 4th
An intrusion detection system (IDS) can perform log analysis, check file integrity, monitor policy changes, and keep an eye out for rootkit installations and alert you when a threat is first suspected. The IDS that I chose for my host was OSSES HIDS, an open source host-based Intrusion Detection System offered by Trend Micro. Here’s how I installed OSSEC on my hosted Linux VPS and Splunk on a local Windows machine to monitor.
Cool censorship tool protesting SOPA
Jan 11th
Cool censorship tool (protesting SOPA) at: http://americancensorship.org/. Censor your post with the tool and users have to contact congress to “unlock” the censored text. Brilliant.
IFTTT Remote trigger system ties all your “services” together
Jan 11th
Iftt.com. It stands for (if this then that). It’s basically a “trigger”system that ties into tons of services including RSS, Dropbox, Evernote, Gmail, Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, general email, Flickr, LinkedIn, Last.fm, Read it Later (which I love), Wordpress, etc. It even has triggers for text messages, phone calls, stocks and bonds, and the weather.
Google engineer mistakenly posts internal memo to public forum
Oct 13th
Making the equivalent of mistakenly hitting the reply all button, Google Engineer Steve Yegge posted a very well written rant on the importance of architectural planning and the importance of building products around a platform. The neat thing about his post is that he is almost “spot on” with his logic. Long post but well worth reading.
New Amazon Fire tablet leaves a few questions
Sep 28th
The Amazon Fire tablet, introduced September 28, 2011, promises to shake up the tablet market. Heavy hitters like Apple will be hard pressed to match the Amazon Fire’s $199 price, which is possible by subsidizing the hardware costs with profits from the sale of books, music, movies, and applications that the Amazon Fire is built to serve up to its owners. Android tablet makers will feel the heat too given the Amazon Fire is Android based and priced far cheaper than other Android tablets on the market.
Is this how Revolutions begin?
Sep 26th
The OccupyWallStreet movement, spearheaded by OccupyTogether seems to be gaining momentum. Whether you consider yourself a 99 percenter or not, their posters are pretty cool. I suspect we’ll be seeing these scattered around town now…
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