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This came across a mailing list I’m on: Inside the iPhone field test mode – Blog – WirelessInfo.com Basically if you dial: *3001#12345#* Then you get dumped into a menu which allows you to read out all sorts of interesting details about your phone and its connection to AT&T’s network. Note: I did this on […]

I love food. I mean I really love it. I love the culture. I love the taste. I love the social aspects of food. I love the different cultures. The spice. The flavor. Flames. Ovens. Bread. Meats. Fruits. It’s all good, baby. I really enjoyed working on Ratatouille, but it did have one negative effect […]

Okay, I bought one. I’ve had it for 24 hours, and I really like it. It’s slick. It’s got lots of cool features. And it is just damned shiny and screams cool. But to demonstrate that I’m not a total fanboy, I present for your consideration a list of ten things which I think should […]

Here’s Apple’s documentation for developing web stuff for the iPhone. It’s not all that surprising mostly, but it is good to keep a link to this hanging around. Apple Developer Connection – Web Development for iPhone Addendum: Josh, if you are looking for info on which codecs, bitrate etc to use for the iPhone, here […]

The EFF filed a request for documents pertaining to invesigations within the FBI on abuses of National Security Letters. They replied with over 1100 pages of information. I haven’t had a chance to delve too deeply into this, but it seems clear that when government agenceies are granted liberties with our rights, they take them. […]

It seems only fair that I give a link to a new telephone product that has more of my ideals in mind: witness openmoko.com, which you can now apparently order for the first time. It’s an entirely open Linux based phone, with some pretty nifty features. Their first model is the Neo1973. It’s specs read […]

Slashdot asks the question “Are 80 Columns Enough?” Luckily, we have several hundred years of “best practice” in trying to typeset material for maximum legibility to guide us. Typography guidelines normally limit line lengths to fifty to seventy characters per line, often in narrow columns. The reasons are fairly well understood: your eyes have a […]

For those relative newcomers to my blog, it might shock them to find that I actually used to record a rather geeky podcast. After recording 98 episodes, many using my Dell Axim x50v in my car, I decided that I was working too hard at it, and decided to fold my tents. As part of […]

I’ve seen some bad paint jobs on cars recently. One guy had some kind of Franken-car that looked like half Gremlin, half Honda, lowered, with huge rims and a body that looked like it was made poorly from paper mache. But as I have often suspected, it’s often just the craftsman that makes the difference. […]

I felt like I needed a new game. I was at Best Buy. I saw the new Transformers game on the shelf. I thought it might be fun. I plunked down my hard earned money without consulting a review. I made a mistake. It blows. It’s not the graphics, the sound, or the repetitive gameplay. […]

Here is an awesome demonstration of gyroscopic stabilization, as well as a sure indication that duct tape is useful, even in space. YouTube – Gyroscopically stabilized CD-player(s) in microgravity [tags]Science,Gravity,Gyroscope[/tags]

I’ve been listening to some new podcasts today. A particularly nice podcast dealing with geeky topics such as video games, and showing particularly insightful comments on movies starring rat chefs is the Weekly Geek Podcast: Podcast for 07-02-07 | A Peasant Dish – Video Game Podcast and Blog | The Weekly Geek They have almost […]

In between cookouts, fireworks, going to see movies about giant robots or rat chefs, I hope that some of you will take a moment and consider the meaning of the day off and contemplate these documents which lately have faded into history as only of historical importance: The Declaration of Independence The United States Constitution […]

Well, I shook up the blog a little bit, and as is typical, a few things broke. Most notably, my feedburner feed was screwed for a few hours, I’m hoping that it is back and functional again. Expect a few more rough bits as we head toward nirvana. One of the reasons that I’m doing […]

Why didn’t I think of this? Check out the Ratatouille/iPhone Photo Caption Contest over at Steve Ivy’s monkinetic blog. [tags]Ratatouille,iPhone,Contest[/tags]