Entries from June 2009

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Open Source Rip off and the TED conference

check this out: http://www.unitzeroone.com/blog/2009/06/23/ideas-worth-taking-credit-for-the-ted-augmented-reality-hoax/ Apparently someone use 2 very common, very well know open source projects to do a demo for TED and claimed responsibility for coding them. What a fool.

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Free Flash Catalyst Beta and Training

Flash Catalyst Beta https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/entitlement/index.cfm?e=labs_flashcatalyst Free training from Lynda.com http://www.lynda.com/home/DisplayCourse.aspx?lpk2=778&utm_source=LDC&utm_medium=viral&utm_content=flash_catalyst&utm_campaign=flash_catalyst

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

My first post from my personal mobile router

More on the system architecture will be posted soon but don’t get too excited. The technology is kind of old, however the ways around the expense and mobile service contracts is novel, I think.

Thursday, June 4th, 2009

Dear Allstate Insurance

You will never be my homeowners insurance company* because you are obviously idiots. Today you sent me 2 quotes.  The first was in an unmarked, obviously unsolicited, envelope.  It stated that based on public records you created a automated policy quote for me.  Apparently the replacement cost of my house is less than half it’s [...]