Posts filed under Technology

09.09.2011

Facing the Human Impact on Nature and Life

I was traveling by train from Hualien in Taiwan in the late afternoon on my way back to Taipei in 2007. Fortunately, I was able to make a few photographs like the one below before the light out the window quickly disappeared making it pointless to try to capture anything while in a fast moving [...]

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08.14.2011

You Must Have a Fantastic Camera

Let me explain. It’s because of computers… I had gone through two computers by the time I graduated from high school. My first one didn’t have a hard drive and my second one did, but was accessorized with an external modem sometime later. By the time I started college, I was on my third computer, [...]

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07.20.2008

Calculating Geekaliciousness

I had trouble coming up with an answer because I usually pull up the calculator on my computer… who uses a real calculator these days for small calculations?

…My friend had turned on the TV in the classroom one day with his introducing the potential for mischief and confusing and startling the high school teacher.

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04.11.2008

Cracked and Defaced

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! I can’t remember the last time I saw a “hacked” site, but this is quite sad that a Turkish cracker has actually taken pleasure in defacing this hotel’s site.

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03.14.2008

Free Flickr Pro and Wi-Fi with AT&T Broadband DSL

If you pay for AT&T / SBC / Yahoo (whatever the hell they’re calling it today) DSL Broadband, you have a free Pro subscription to Flickr (normally $24.95/yr). Among the benefits, you get unlimited storage and unlimited uploads which means you can archive your full high resolution photos (and let friends download those high resolution [...]

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02.26.2008

Blackberry Email Personalities

Before I got the Crackberry, I did some extensive testing of smartphones particularly the iPhone and Blackberry. Unfortunately, I didn’t happen to catch that you couldn’t easily set your “From” email address header. This has become a problem because for work I send emails from various email aliases and mailing list names, not just my [...]

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01.24.2008

RIAA Violates Internet Standards

I dug around until I found that the information they were probably referring to was the Take It Off link which has their own instructions on how to turn off file-sharing in KaZaA .

… I ended up emailing the Security group at the University of Chicago asking them if they could add a redirect for that page and cc’d webmaster@musicunited.org (guessing that might be a valid address), but three days later:

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01.21.2008

Aggregating Blogs with FeedWordPress

With multiple websites devoted to certain topics, I was looking for something like the croissanga plug-in that would automatically link to posts from other locations in one place.

… I found a great Wordpress plug-in called FeedWordPress that allows you to import other RSS feed items as posts into Wordpress. … However, I found that the DePo Clean theme was displaying “Comments Off” for that setting so I modified the index.php so that it would be more descriptive to visitors (43 is the category ID for my posts imported via FeedWordPress):

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