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Archive for October, 2008

Beijing Olympics artistic social commentary

Beijing Olympics artistic social commentary

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Remember kids: This post is probably going to get my blog censored in a certain very large Asian nation, but I thought it was quite interesting to see all the political commentary buzzing around the internet in editorial style cartoon format. Even though this was one of the most protested Olympic games since Berlin 1936, […]

Some of my favorite shots

Some of my favorite shots

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

I’ve not been serious about my photography hobby for quite some time, but since I bought my first digital camera back in 1992 (Sony DSC-1 640×480 or 0.3 megapixel max resolution), I’ve taken over 25,000 photos, 5000 or so that have been taken “recently” which still need to be named and sorted. I started sorting […]

Recycling an old Fossil Abacus WristNet Microsoft watch

Recycling an old Fossil Abacus WristNet Microsoft watch

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

How ironic and appropriate that the name for this Microsoft powered wrist watch included the word Fossil… it was almost like they knew how obsolete the first version would become in such short order. I picked up this watch for free because someone was tossing it out. It worked well enough, but since I don’t […]

Review of Ananiah Electronics active RFID modules and readers

Review of Ananiah Electronics active RFID modules and readers

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

On the RFID Toys forum, I’m always fielding questions about RFID basics and helping educate people about RFID applications. I also get a lot of questions about where to find cheap gear. I was hoping to be able to answer some of those questions by pointing people to www.ananiahelectronics.com. Will I be able to confidently […]

Polyphasic Sleep: "The Uberman Sleep Schedule"

Polyphasic Sleep: “The Uberman Sleep Schedule”

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Toward the end of 2007 I was working furiously on developing several aspects of the txtGroups company I launched back in 2005. I was pretty much a one man show, so developing new messaging platform features, marketing the service, managing accounts with content partners, etc. were all part of the collection of hats I wore. […]

The luckiest shot in the world

The luckiest shot in the world

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

When I was a young teen, I remember going to my first and only estate sale. It was such an odd feeling trudging around some dead dude’s garage, looking at his tools and things. Even now I think how strange it would be if, the week after I kicked off, there would be strangers pilfering […]

The governator passes anti-skimming RFID law & veto’s student RFID consent law

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

…when it comes to children, that’s where consent gets complicated…

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