Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Reasons to hope oil costs keep rising

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

I keep thinking that oil costs rising are a "good thing" for the US. Obviously there are growing pains and lifestyle changes that need to be made, but are they not overdue? RIP for the internal-combustion engine They may contain computer chips, but the power source for today's cars is ...

Radeon 9250 (Radeon 9200 Pro) on Ubuntu Gutsy

Monday, March 10th, 2008

I have been trying to setup a new 64 bit Quad Intel Core with a Radeon 9250 video card. My operating system of choice for this rig was going to be Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10. I have enjoyed using Gutsy in the past and saw no reason to change from ...

The Christmas ‘Copter

Friday, December 29th, 2006

I bought this helicopter as a Christmas gift for the family (and of course myself). The two year old loves watching it fly around the living room while shouting at it while I enjoy piloting it around his attempts at destruction. For $35 it's expendable enough I don't ...

Mind Mapping Software and Flickr Update

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

I have updated a few of my public flickr pictures. There are currently 1756 photo's available, most of which are not public. So if you're a family or a friend and are interested in seeing them, drop me a note. For everyone else there's public. My vacation is coming up ...

AJAX (web 2.0) updates

Friday, January 20th, 2006

I've been looking into additional AJAX related resources and stumbled across an interesting wiki dealing with Ruby on Rails. The site has some interesting demo links. The actual wiki is part of the script.aculo.us website which aims to be: easy-to-use, compatible and, ultimately, ...