Category: General

I knew about 30 second skip – that’s the first hack I sought out. I didn’t know about the clock in the bottom corner. That’s pretty cool. And, since I can never remember where this stuff is when I need it: Almost Complete Codes List

Dear Sir or Madam – We have so enjoyed serving you and your auto insurance needs for these past 3 years, that we have enclosed a complimentary 15% rate hike over what you paid 6 months ago 15% !? Oh, I think I see the problem: Important information about annual miles driven The number of…

Whenever I can, I try to tell people about the growing war over intellectual property and copyright. I try to explain why these things represent fundamental threats to our freedoms and culture. Mostly I fail. I talk to my parents or people I work with, and the eyes glaze over. It’s not something that they…

I have gone into the data, and through the data, and I have emerged on the other side to find … more god damn data! 40k+ rows of dirty, non-normalized, infinite monkeys pounding away on infinite typewriters data. I am just about beat. I am punch-drunk. I am nostalgic. If you could see my playlist…

I suspect this is going to get linked in all kinds of places. Still, I’m intrigued by the idea of Ben Franklin as an early day hacker and part of a secret society called The Junto. I’d never heard of The Junto, but now I want my own secret society/dinner club dedicated to self-improvement, exploration…

A while back, I thought it would be a lark to take over the metafilter thread that shares my MeFi user number. It was a quite out of the way thread and nobody was using it for anything. Eventually, I started feeling bad about wasting server resources, so I stopped. The point you ask? Well,…

itymbi … has an interesting idea about cars communicating traffic conditions with each other via some kind of an ad hoc peer-to-peer network. Boy, the infrastructure for something like that would take forever to roll out, but it sure would provide useful situational data if some some car manufactures were willing to get on board…

Six/Four is a new type of VPN that is intended to bounce internet connections through several trusted peers with the goal of obscuring the actual location of client computer. That sounds cool. It seems clear that we’re going to need something like this in the not too distant future, but won’t bottlenecks be a problem?…

This is getting SO tiresome (another story about congress drafting a bill to further strengthen copyright/stick it to consumers). We clearly need a voter revolution in the next set of elections. The problem is that determining how your representatives voted on issues that are important to you seems to be a huge PITA. I want…

This is a circular reference to my own trackback thread.