I was going crazy trying to manage all of these social services. I really like the simplicity of Twitter's status updates but what about Plurk, Jaiku, Pownce, Myspace, and Facebook? Ping.fm is like a shotgun of simplicity that shoots your status updates and micro-blogs to a bunch of services. The ...
So I hopped on the Plurk bandwagon. It seems pretty spiffy. Kinda like Twitter but with a more ajaxy interface. It takes some getting used to. Rather than a simple chronological list of your friends updates you get an awkward timeline that scrolls horizontally. Change for the sake of change ...
Getting online while out and about has always been a fascination of mine. Since my phreak days in the 90s I always wanted an acoustic coupler for my 386 laptop. I had to settle for a beige box instead. Then in 2000 I discovered the true freedom of wireless Internet ...
One of my favorite video games growing up was the 1981 Namco classic Galaga. I have many fond memories of playing it on my Atari 2600 on a black and white JC Penny television.Today I found a table-top version at the mall and had a blast taking out swarms of ...
Recently I've been dealing with all sorts of backscatter NDR spam from Yahoo Mail, Google Groups, you name it. Not to mention the massive spam increase in from our million or so Zombie friends who are too cool to run Windows Update. Seriously the signal to noise ratio looked like ...
Ahh the Hak5 fourms, what a journey they've had. I can remember back in 2005 setting 'em up in a single click (thanks Dreamhost) on phpBB. That was great for a while until those darn spammers decided they'd start hawking knockoff watches and timeshares on 'em. Thankfully our crack team ...
Human powered search seems to be all the rage these days. I find it amusing that we've come full circle since the early days of web search in the 90s. Anyone remember the Yahoo! Picks from their directory with the cool guy sunglasses image tag? I digress.While Mahalo wins for ...
So I heard about this new semantic web search engine called Powerset that does natural language queries against wikipedia and thought I'd give it a try. It actually works quite well. You can ask it things like "How many bits are in a byte?", "How old is Al Gore?", "Where ...
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The demolition has begun. Most interrior walls are coming down fully while the exterrior walls are getting 2 feet removed from the bottom. The kitchen is getting pretty much fully ...
I'm in Springfield, Missouri for the weekend visiting Shannon while the guys hold down the fort. And by hold down the fort I really mean live in a hotel while the HakHouse is gutted and rebuilt.
So if you're in the area and want to get together with Shannon, myself, and ...
I'm making a note here, epic fail. Yesterday I came home from work to find the HakHouse a wet soggy mess. A pipe burst above the kitchen that flooded the entire downstairs and parts of the upstairs. Everything is wet. Everything is soggy. The place wreaks of fail.
The cause? Crappy ...