Archive for February, 2009

Gmail Message Happened ‘Negative One Minutes Ago’

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

Love how Gmail time stamps the above mail message "negative one minutes ago."  Apparently this online email application can time travel.  Who knew.

Sending IM to mobile phones via iChat

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

I just tried sending someone a SMS instant message via AIM iChat and received this auto-reply: Auto-reply: Sorry, your IM was not sent because this mobile user has not yet accepted IM to Mobile messages I don't understand this.  I sent a message the same way yesterday and got a reply.  I ...

Mac menu bar screw-up

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Ever had the menu bar, or whatever it's called, screw-up on a Mac like this? I have not, until now. I closed Cog, and it went away.

Big Orange Torpedo

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

So I "managed"/roadied for the now defunct band Big Orange Torpedo in the mid 90's.  The group cycled through a small list of members but at it's core were John Webb, James Kline and Phil Balsman (pictured left to right).  The guys attended Perryville High School and their tunes, like ...

The Sketchory

Monday, February 16th, 2009

The Sketchory offers over 250,000 drawings -- like the bizarre one above -- to share, remix, tag, embed, etc.  While most are not jaw droppingly good many are amazing enough for the price.

iPhone Card Counting Apps

Monday, February 16th, 2009

I love how the following snip from "Ahead of the Curve" -- an tech blog of sorts from ABC News -- about an iPhone card counting app has no quotes and no information on the particular application(s) being used: Nevada gambling regulators have warned casinos in the state about a card-counting ...

Not content with ‘content’

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

The term "content" -- referring to material that constitutes a publication or document for an audience -- is abhorrent. Applying the word "content" essentially cheapens the writing, music, video or whatever other form of media one is taking in and attempting to gain a life enriching experience from it. The ...

Free Music Currently Queued up in Cog Audio Player

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

The following FREE musical selections currently reside in my Cog (a open source audio player for Mac OS X) playlist.  (Haven't listened to everything yet but hoping everything is worthwhile.) Ziggy Stardust (Remixed) -- via BoingBoing Most of what I've heard so far is a little too classic techno-y for ...

Google Latitude Launches (with bugs?)

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Google Latitude, a web and mobile phone service that shows where your friends are on a map, has gone live.  However, it seems to have a few kinks left in it as the above iPhone screen grab shows.  Right now it doesn't seem to work at all on my iPhone. ...