December 23, 2007

Beginner's Digital SLR buying guide: The Sifry Starter Photo Package

http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/2007/12/beginners_digit.html Dave's guide to DSLRs
Posted by jzawodn at 03:47 AM

December 21, 2007

International Dialing Codes

http://www.kropla.com/dialcode.htm a good reference to have on hand when traveling
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

December 20, 2007

Stevey's Blog Rants: Code's Worst Enemy

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/12/codes-worst-enemy.html a fantastic little shitstorm about codebase size/complexity/bloat and modern languages
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

2007 Flying [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHzwdJJtIfY a nice video of flying various planes in the northern california area
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM

December 19, 2007

Stanford's nanowire battery holds 10 times the charge of existing ones

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2008/january9/nanowire-010908.html kick ass
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

0 + 1307

http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/12/13/mtos "So anyway, congratulations to Six Apart for finally joining the open community of freedom-loving pussy eaters." Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

Twenty-year-old Civics got 57 miles per gallon

http://money.cnn.com/2007/12/17/autos/honda_civic_hf/index.htm?postversion=2007121916 "Looking back at the 1987 Honda Civic CRX shows us why cars use so much more gas today and about the trade-offs we've had to make."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:00 PM

Linux Update: Ubuntu 7.10 and Built-In DVD playback

http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2007/12/18/38935.aspx Dell now offers Ubuntu 7.10 on their systems... and solves the DVD playback problem.
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

December 18, 2007

A new role at Yahoo!

http://www.chaddickerson.com/blog/2007/12/17/a-new-role-at-yahoo/ Chad's moving on but staying in the family. Good for him!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

Yahoo! Shortcuts (beta)

http://alexking.org/blog/2007/12/13/yahoo-shortcuts Alex talks about building the shortcuts plugin for wordpress
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

Kant Attack Ad [video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M-cmNdiFuI heh... excellent
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

December 12, 2007

Yahoo! Shortcuts

http://shortcuts.yahoo.com/ "Enhance your blog posts with Yahoo! Shortcuts"
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

December 11, 2007

Why I Stopped Using Twitter

http://publishing2.com/2007/12/11/why-i-stopped-using-twitter/ "For people who look to the web as a tool for efficiency rather than time wasting, the first generation of social apps my prove to be just playthings, rather than applications that make their lives easy and simpler."
Posted by jzawodn at 08:47 PM

Cooties [video]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=w6ylxWcwkUM heh
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 PM

Why Are You Reading All That News?

http://www.43folders.com/2007/12/11/why-are-you-reading-all-news "It is a self-created problem, and I need to understand what makes me feel the need to consume the equivalent of a Carnegie library every day, instead of just finding a more efficient way to choke it down." True, dat...
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

Bellanca Engine Overhaul

http://www.russellw.com/planes/cruisemaster/engine_change/ a very comprehensive look at overhauling an airplane engine
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Five point-plan to lose 30 lbs

http://dogballs.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/12/five-ways-to-lo.html it's not hard... it just takes time!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

Greetings young Skywalker...

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/12/10/greetings-young-skywalker-i-have-been-expecting-you/ excellent lolcat
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

TechShop is the SF Bay Area's Only Open-Access Public Workshop

http://techshop.ws/ "TechShop is a fully-equipped open-access workshop and creative environment that lets you drop in any time and work on your own projects at your own pace. It is like a health club with tools and equipment instead of exercise equipment...or a Kinko's for
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

December 10, 2007

Iron Systems, Inc.-A-ClassPage

http://www.ironsystems.com/items.asp?Cc=ACLASS&gclid=CNeHgeO4n5ACFSBeagodW2Wt6g cheap, lower power, rackmount servers
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 PM

Flight Simulator 98/2000: Basic Keyboard Controls

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/176295/ I hope these work for Flight Simulator X too, 'cause there's no good on-line reference card for them that I can find
Posted by jzawodn at 04:24 PM

Download details: Command Line Transformation Utility (msxsl.exe)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=2fb55371-c94e-4373-b0e9-db4816552e41&DisplayLang=en "The msxsl.exe command line utility enables you to perform command line Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) transformations using the Microsoft® XSL processor." Why doesn't this come with IE?!
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Convert GPX to GeoRSS using XSLT

http://www.robblackwell.org.uk/?p=52 one of the few converters I've found that'll produce GeoRSS
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Simviation or Simaviation

http://www.simviation.com/ "Thousands of free high quality add-ons for Microsoft's Flight Simulator series! Free File downloads for Flight Simulator X, FSX, FS2004, A Century of Flight, FS2002, CFS2, CFS3, Combat Flight Simulator, FS2000 & FS98!"
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 AM

Is Your Hang Glider Jet-Powered? (Video)

http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/feature-is-your-hang-glider-jet-powered-video- kick ass
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 AM

December 09, 2007

review of Bic Crystal ballpoint pen on Amazon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3QR3AC2WXWHIT/ amazingly thoughtful and completely overkill
Posted by jzawodn at 11:00 AM

DD-WRT

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD-WRT "DD-WRT is free Linux-based firmware for several wireless routers, most notably the Linksys WRT54G (including the WRT54GL and WRT54GS). It is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2." Good Stuff!
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

December 08, 2007

My gmail review

http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-agKtb4k8d69Brg1U27M9?p=133 Miles has a look at gmail
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Recover from a Bad Flash - DD-WRT Wiki

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Recover_from_a_Bad_Flash hey this actually worked!
Posted by jzawodn at 11:01 AM

Understanding AMD Opteron™ Model Numbers: DDR2-based Processors

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_8796_14266,00.html how to grok AMD's model numbers
Posted by jzawodn at 12:01 AM

December 07, 2007

Vim: Key Mappings

http://stripey.com/vim/keys.html I can never remember how to toggle between windows
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

Auxetics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxetics "Auxetics are materials that become thicker perpendicularly to the applied force when stretched." Wacky physics!
Posted by jzawodn at 01:01 PM

Edgeio To Shut Down - In The DeadPool

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/06/edgeio-to-shut-down-in-the-deadpool/ I was a tech advisor to edgeio. This is sad news.
Posted by jzawodn at 10:01 AM

OpenSocial Still “Not Open for Business”

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/12/06/opensocial-still-not-open-for-business/ "It’s clear that they announced too soon, and clearly Open Social is NOT Open for Business."
Posted by jzawodn at 10:00 AM

December 06, 2007

May I take your order?

http://www.rahoi.com/2006/03/may-i-take-your-order/ holy shit! that's the funniest thing I've read all week!
Posted by jzawodn at 04:01 PM

Embed charts in webpages with one of our simplest APIs yet

http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/12/embed-charts-in-webpages-with-one-of.html simple and well done. nice job, google
Posted by jzawodn at 01:47 PM

December 05, 2007

Guarding Your Social Security Number

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1690827,00.html "Your employer needs your Social Security number to pay you and your bank needs it to comply with federal law, but very few other places actually need it."
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

Please Don't Steal My Focus

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001011.html fuck yeah!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

Top 10 Free Windows File Wranglers

http://lifehacker.com/software/lifehacker-top-10/top-10-free-windows-file-wranglers-330037.php there are a few of my favorites on this list
Posted by jzawodn at 06:01 PM

Comedian Says Minnesota Run Is a Serious One

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/us/politics/05franken.html?ex=1197522000&en=08c2831293441841&ei=5065&partner=MYWAY Al Franken is running for senate. Heh.
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

Thoughts on Beacon

http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=7584397130 let me summarize: "we fucked up." that is all.
Posted by jzawodn at 03:00 PM

Dealing with winmail.dat and unreadable email attachments

http://www.gpc.edu/~jbenson/resource/winmail.htm I hate these fucking winmail.dat files that people keep sending me... here's why.
Posted by jzawodn at 02:01 PM

OAuth Core 1.0

http://oauth.net/core/1.0/#anchor1 looks like 1.0 is out now
Posted by jzawodn at 01:00 PM

Buy nothing for Christmas

http://www.scottberkun.com/blog/2007/buy-nothing-for-christmas/ "But with the web, and the same 15 chain stores in every mall in every city, it’s harder to actually buy truly good gifts."
Posted by jzawodn at 12:00 PM

Video: Here Comes Another Bubble - The Richter Scales

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi4fzvQ6I-o awesome
Posted by jzawodn at 09:01 AM

December 04, 2007

The Truth About Wireless Devices

http://www.wellingtongrey.net/miscellanea/archive/2007-05-27--the-truth-about-wireless-devices.html holy shit, that's funny!
Posted by jzawodn at 07:47 PM

PuTTY Tray

http://www.xs4all.nl/~whaa/putty/ "PuTTY Tray is an improved version of PuTTY (Win32). It features some cosmetic changes, and a number of addons to make it more usefull and much more fun to use." cool!
Posted by jzawodn at 06:47 PM

FoxyProxy

http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/ "Define which proxy to use (or none!) for arbitrary URLs using wildcards, regular expression and other conveniences"
Posted by jzawodn at 06:46 PM

my mpd setup

http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/my_mpd_setup/ Joey has a pretty cool setup
Posted by jzawodn at 05:01 PM

Google Code for Educators - Tools

http://code.google.com/edu/tools/index.html Google's Haddop/MapReduce stuff for download
Posted by jzawodn at 05:00 PM

King Schools Teach the Wrong Things

http://aeronaut.ca/journal/king-schools-teach-the-wrong-things-and-other-thoughts-on-teaching-at-a-cessna-pilot-center "Why have Cessna and the Kings generated their own rules of thumb for instrument flying? There’s an entire FAA bible on this stuff called the Instrument Flying Handbook."
Posted by jzawodn at 03:01 PM

December 03, 2007

DNS-O-Matic

http://www.dnsomatic.com/ Distribute dynamic IP changes to multiple services
Posted by jzawodn at 05:24 PM

Flight Wait

http://flightwait.com/ "Real-time flight conditions." that kicks ass!
Posted by jzawodn at 05:23 PM

Verizon’s Real Move to Openness

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/verizons-real-move-to-openness/index.html?ex=1354165200&en=5947d786947d23b5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss wow, could it be that Verizon actually gets it... to some degree?
Posted by jzawodn at 04:00 PM

"The" way vs "a" way (Japan v China dept)

http://jamesfallows.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/11/the_way_vs_a_way_japan_v_china.php differences in how they fuel aircraft... kinda funny
Posted by jzawodn at 02:47 PM

Who clicks on ads? And what might this mean?

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/12/03/who_clicks_on_a.html hmm
Posted by jzawodn at 08:00 AM

December 01, 2007

Office Space in 30 seconds with bunnies.

http://angryalien.com/aa/officespbuns.asp heh... how amusing
Posted by jzawodn at 09:00 AM