|
|
 |
in the next release of the iPhone OS, please change the power management such that I can configure it to not AutoLock if it's plugged into an external power source.
Thanks!
5 Comments | Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
If any of you out there admit to watching Star Wars episodes 1-3 (the newer movies), think about how Palpatine got himself voted more power.
Now compare that to how Hitler managed to get power (and this is NOT an incidence of Godwin's Law, as I'm STARTING the conversation with these facts).
Now tell me what could go wrong with this situation:
MOSCOW -- With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the difficulty of the task might mean temporarily bypassing the Senate’s constitutional role in ratifying treaties by enforcing certain aspects of a new deal on an executive levels and a “provisional basis” until the Senate ratifies the treaty.
Here's the full article.
I just don't like phrases like "bypassing...constitutional role".
Didn't the PREVIOUS President do that kind of thing? And much of that is under review now (so we've been told).
Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
The desire to get breaking news might cause me to get a Twitter account... Posted via LiveJournal.app.
5 Comments | Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
So I got my mother a Canon PowerShot A2000 IS camera for her birthday.
I protected the viewscreen with a ZAGG invisibleSHEILD.
I put an Eye-Fi Home SD card into it.
I put a pair of 2650 mAh NiMH Duracell rechargeable AA batteries into it.
And you know what?
It does EXACTLY what I wanted it to do for her. It has a big screen (3" diag - big for a digital camera) so she can see what she's aiming at. If her laptop is powered up, the photos transfer over to the computer in under 10 seconds with no intervention required on her part and no wires.
I will periodically check on it to make sure it's not full (the camera AND the computer).
Now I just gotta convince her to put the camera in her purse and to feel free to take all the photos she wants!
2 Comments | Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
This Friday, June 5th, is National Donut Day and to celebrate, both Krispy Kreme and Dunkin Donuts are giving away free donuts to each of their customers. As the KK press release says, you don’t have to do anything in order to get a free donut. However, DD is only giving away a donut with the purchase of any drink.
Meanwhile, you can get a free root beer float at Sonic between 8pm-midnight on Wednesday, June 3rd.
8 Comments | Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
So this past Friday, after work, garyj97 and I went out to a park to get one of the oldest caches in the area, and maybe a couple more.
I brought Sevin® dust.
When we were preparing to leave the truck (he drove), I changed shoes, and then dusted my shoes and my socks with the dust. He didn't want any.
We both also used some bug repellent on our upper areas.
Today, garyj97 reports a few chigger bites. He says half a dozen or so. I didn't have ANY.
And neither of us has noticed any mosquito bites.
For the mosquitoes, I'd sprayed 100% DEET on the sleeves of my shirt (and got Gary to spray some right below my collar), on my hat, and later, on my elbows (after a skeeter landed on one) and the front of my shirt (after the bugs kept finding my breath without finding me).
Since we were planning to go out to eat after, I didn't dust my pants. I changed socks and shoes right after we were done caching. The staff at Twin Peaks probably didn't like my "cologne" though, since I didn't change shirts.
Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
I'm sick.
Allergy attack.
Head Cold.
Not sure which.
But I came to work anyway.
Why? Because the wife's Lego Party number 2, part of her school's fundraising auction, is today at the house.
Luckily there's no one here to infect.
Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
So I'm sitting and the computer messing with waymarking and geocaching and flickr.
The TV is on, SciFi channel, some stupid gargoyle movie.
The lead good guy OBVIOUSLY empties his semiautomatic pistol at the creature. We can SEE the slide lock back. But he keeps pulling the trigger and the shot noises keep coming. Then they do another closeup and we see him apparently empty it AGAIN. At no time did he swap clips or change guns...
Special Ability L is from the old TSR role playing game Boot Hill. It means "gun never runs out of ammunition".
1 Comment | Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
I need you guys to make the following products in Emerald:
SwissCard Translucent
SwissCard Lite Translucent
Do that, and I'll buy at least one of each.
I currently have a black, non-translucent SwissCard that I've had for well over ten years.
I love it.
So does my wife.
But she also loves green.
I mentioned the need for a green camera in a post exactly like this, aimed at Canon, and they finally did it.
And she got that camera for her birthday.
Apple already makes green iPods.
Geeks.com had a green LED aluminum flashlight once...she has that too.
There's bound to be other people out there that like the color green.
4 Comments | Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
Chigger season has begun in North Texas.
Chigger at Wikipedia.
( wikipedia excerpt )
Chigger at About.com.
( About.com excerpt )
And of course there are other bad bugs.
WebMD slideshow on bad bugs here.
5 Comments | Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
Part of me wants to go take a ton of pictures and part of me wants to heed the implicit warning.
Gizmodo: Man Threatened, Arrested For Taking Picture Of Open ATM In Public [Crime]
Be sure to actually go to that link and look at the picture. The one the guy "wasn't supposed to take" but that is now on the internet for EVERYONE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD to see.
REI has the right to say that people cannot take photos in the store. It's their store. But was that posted? If not, the reaction here is a little overkill.
2 Comments | Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
If you've been reading my LJ, you know I have home network problems.
I'm asking for recommendations.
What broadband router should I get?
Should I get a router that's separate from the WiFi access point (I'm leaning toward this)?
Should I live with my pocket routers for WiFi until the 802.11n standard is approved instead of draft?
1 Comment | Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
Got the green cable off the floor.
Still using the old SMC as a broadband router. For WiFi I have one of my three D-Link DWL-G730AP "pocket routers" set up as an Access Point, hanging off the SMC.
Those little guys have been real workhorses for me. They completely eliminate the need for drivers: if your device has ethernet, you can get it wireless with one of these, just flip the switch on the bottom to "Client". Or you can use it as an Access Point connected to a router, flip it to AP. Or you can use it as a full wireless router; flip it to RT.
They have a wall wart, but they also can be powered from USB.
I saw that a new version had been announced, branded as Trend-Net, I think, that does Wireless N.
3 Comments | Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
 |
|
Well, at least it has for my possessions.
A tip: if you think there's something wrong with your refrigerator, call and have someone check it. If you wait, it'll just get worse.
Our home warranty is covering it, but they're adding a layer of bureacracy, like not really wanting to fix it--it's over 10 years old, but wanting to apply the money it'll cost to fix it towards the purchase of a new one.
So we don't have a refrigerator right now.
Well, we just bought a little one; we'd been planning to get a little one for drinks and stuff; so we got it tonight.
Apparently, Saturday night, the WAN port on my home router/wireless access point died. And my cable modem is old, and my ISP has updated their policies and backend software and now they only allow a single MAC address to be directly connected to the modem and the modem caches up that MAC for HOURS (or something, anyway it's good that I know someone at the cable company).
So right now I've got the old router, my first one, that my parents had used, in place. But the wireless on it is fried (that's why my parents aren't using it), so the Macintosh, the machine I'm typing this on, is currently connected via a hundred foot ethernet cable.
So when is the 802.11n standard gonna get finalized and approved?
2 Comments | Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
From ITWorld Today:
Twitter quitters are fleeing the site in droves
A Nielsen Co. report released Tuesday shows that 60% of Twitter users do not return to the microblogging site the next month. And for the 12 months prior to Oprah Winfrey joining Twitter this month with great media fanfare, the site had a retention rate of less than 30%.
4 Comments | Post A Comment | Add to Memories | Tell a Friend | Link
|
|
|
sick