Archive for December, 2005

Sysinternals Freeware

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

I’ve been looking for a replacement for the built-in task manager, and I just found a good (free) one called Process Explorer. The Sysinternals Freeware site looks like it has a number of other good utilities as well.

My candy is trying to tell me something

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

Just now I ate a few Dove dark chocolates (very tasty)…
On the inside of the wrapper, they have quotes. The first one said “Find your passion.” I didn’t think much of it until I opened the next one, which said “Live your dreams.” Does my candy know something I don’t?
I […]

HobbyTron

Friday, December 23rd, 2005

I found an interesting store that has Remote Control Cars Trucks Boats Nitro Gas Electric - Airsoft Guns, Magic Tricks and more!

Get another Life!

Monday, December 19th, 2005

I read today about Second Life, which sounds really interesting. It is “a 3D online persistent space totally created and evolved by its users”. Similar to Project Entropia, it has an in-game currency which can (at least in theory) be easily converted to real-world currency. Project Entropia really plays up this aspect, […]

Fab Lab

Monday, December 12th, 2005

“Fab Lab” is an abbreviation for Fabrication Laboratory. It is a group of off-the-shelf, industrial-grade fabrication and electronics tools, wrapped in open source software and programs written by researchers at the Center for Bits and Atoms.

Build your own

Friday, December 9th, 2005

I stumbled on this before but apparently never made a note of it. eMachineShop lets you custom-design your own components with a variety of materials. They have a free CAD program that you can use to design and price things in a number of materials. If you need custom circuit boards, check […]

Christmas lights

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

Check this out: Christmas lights (you need sound to get the whole effect).

Grrr…. comment spam

Thursday, December 8th, 2005

Some wise guy(s) decided to slam my blog with comment spam. Fortunately I had it set to require approval for all comments, so none of them made it to the site. However, so I don’t have to be bothered with deleting it all, I’m requiring registration before you can comment.

Flexing

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

One thing I love about blogs are sites like Technorati that make it easy for others to find blog entries. For example, John Dowdell found my post on Flex. He found my post using Technorati, and I found his the same way. I’m betting we used different search terms to find them, […]