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Entries from August 2006

Secure your phone with your face

August 30, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Face Sensing Engine (FSE), developed by Oki Electric, is a user authentication solution that uses face recognition technology.

Mobile phone security – in your face

Categories: Technology

Hacking my life away

August 29, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Some days I wish I could tinker all day in my home office and garage. I am a MAKE subscriber and visit Hack-A-Day almost daily. What is it about tearing things apart, making my modifications and putting them back together? Most people say if they won a large cash settlement, they would buy houses and take vacations. Sure would wouldn’t? But what would you do during those idle times? I would love nothing more than to play with the microcontrollers and WiFi gadgets all day…

Steerable 802.11 Cantenna

This is just fun!

Categories: hacking

Passing callable objects instead of strings

August 25, 2006 · 1 Comment

Reviewing documentation, I noticed a very nice suggestion and change now supported in the django web framework, written in python. Callable objects used to resolve URL requests are now supported:

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Categories: Python · django

A new ride?

August 21, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Las Vegas to Mexico and back 15 hours of driving time!

Oh, did I mention it was all on a motorcycle?

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Categories: Motorcycle Rides

So, tell me about yourself…

August 21, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Found this post on another blog:

50 COMMON INTERVIEW Q&A

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Categories: Management

Animator vs. Animation

August 20, 2006 · Leave a Comment

This is classic! If you have ever enjoyed a cartoon fighting it out with his animator; the classic grabbing the pencil to draw more or use the eraser to remove something…then you’ll like this:

Animator vs. Animation

Categories: Art

What my teacher, Mrs. LaVigne, left out…

August 20, 2006 · 1 Comment

To this day, I will always remember the words of wisdom my teacher left us with on that hot summer day. Choose a job that you will be happy doing every day of your life.

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Categories: Career and Job · Management

Price of Milk

August 20, 2006 · Leave a Comment

I went to the store today to pick up two gallons of milk. Normally we purchase 2%, but since it the store was low, I purchased one 2% gallon and one whole milk gallon.

$4.69 for a gallon of Mayfield milk!

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Categories: Blogging · Time Capsule

Atlanta Traffic?

August 15, 2006 · Leave a Comment

I was speaking with a colleague while at work the other day concerning Atlanta traffic. It started when he overheard one of our wonderful local Atlanta news stations, stating that Atlanta is #3, having the worst traffic in the nation.

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Categories: georgia/atlanta

My first wishlist item…

August 15, 2006 · Leave a Comment

This single board computer (SBC) is full of features! Buying it with the touch screen and GPS in a development kit is an added bonus. If I can find some time in the not too distant future, I may grab myself one.

http://www.arcom.com/devkit-linux-pxa270-zeus.htm

Categories: Embedded