Wearable computing, I find it utterly facinating. I wants one! I’ve been designing a system for myself since about the age of 14. Most recently I’ve been thinking of a low profile backpack / wrist screen platform.
I ran into this link via Makezine today. It involves salving Prius hybrid batteries. The formfactor of the battery [...]
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Wearable computing Bad Idea: 1
May 10th, 2008 · No Comments
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Don’t touch grub unless you have a boot disk
May 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Seriously, Grub is a boot to the head.
I rarely shut down my computer. It’s linux, and is pretty low powered, so I don’t really have to. Last night I did shut down my machine before I went to bed. I had been playing with and cleaning up my grub config last night.
For those of you [...]
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Resizing PDF’s in Ubuntu from 145Mib to ~700KiB
May 9th, 2008 · No Comments
Let me state this up front. I hate PDF
’s. I’ve worked in graphic design and print design blah blah blah. And I’ve had to deal with every lame application’s specific intrepretation of PDF more times than I would like.
PDF’s don’t do well in web browsers, they are far larger than the componant text file, don’t [...]
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Blag down, blag to go
May 1st, 2008 · No Comments
My blag software has been down for some time. But it’s back now.
Newness?
I now live in ellensbouguise again, and am going to CWU. I’m trying to finish my degree, eventually. Degrees actually.
I’m going to be here for another month, and then to Boston for the summer.
More to come
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Why XO?
January 7th, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve been very very busy as of late. I have been volunteering with the One Laptop Per Child Project, doing content and grassroots type stuff. Its a great project, and I love it very much, but it takes a lot of out me. I haven’t really had time to post here or any of the [...]
