I've had a cell phone since the year 2000. (Yeah, I was a late adopter.) Without fail, all of the "feature" phones (aka dumbphones) have had the same feature. If you press the "call" button without keying in a number, you get the phone's recent call log. I got very used to this, and a lot of other people use this function without even realizing ( Read more... )

Upon getting a look at LG's "DTXTR" page, I noticed that they've engaged in a little bit of crowdsourcing. There's a link on the acronym translator page to "Add your own here ( Read more... )

So, I just read this article: AT&T May Have Swayed 'Idol' ResultsThis got me to thinking: AT&T network, eh? My mind started to churn on this a little bit ( Read more... )

If you own a laptop, you should install this. Now.

http://adeona.cs.washington.edu/

It's kind of like having LoJack on your laptop, for free.

Am I the only person who thinks that Aurora is a horrible idea that no one will actually quite understand, or enjoy actually using?

Google has done some cool stuff, but their new "Street View" really takes it up a notch.

For example, if you've ever had a problem with missing the turn off from Austin Boulevard to get to our place, here's a reminder.While it would be nice if they shot more than just the main arteries, part of me is just shocked that they made it out to Nassau ( Read more... )

So, I was thinking about this thing for a few weeks. I should, in theory, be able to write Domino agents using Ruby... If I start out with a Java agent, and load up JRuby. So, naturally, I'm still thinking about it, and this guy beats me to it! Check out Project Shoehorn (and the sequelWhile the results through the Notes client (R7) are ( Read more... )

I haven't been giving myself a lot of time to write lately. One thing that I'm considering doing is writing some miniature technical articles. I can't really think of anywhere else to put them, so here they will go. If I really get into the swing of it, I'll consider opening up a separate blog just for Notes-Domino techy-things. I probably won' ( Read more... )

I've been using LJ for two years now, although, you wouldn't know it from my miniscule volume of posts. I started out deciding that "component" was the best default style available. In that time, I've taken several cracks at trying to figure out how to further customize it using LJ's "s2" language. The language itself isn't hard - it reminds one ( Read more... )