Manuel generously shares his toolbox with us. It’s an informative look at what it takes to solve the mysteries of wintel computing.
But Chris is moving!
Boing Boing links to local WiFi blogger Glenn Fleishmann‘s look at the emerging discontents of wireless culture as seen at a nearby cafe, Victrola. I, for one, am shocked to hear reports of unscrupulous, unmoving WiFi campers. Shocked!
(I kid, kidded one.)
Ooooguuuuoo o o o
Eric dives into a Humpback Song tangent.
RIP Jason Sprinkle
The PI’s Buzzworthy notes the death of Jason Sprinkle, who instigated a bookended pair of guerilla art projects here in Seattle. I read the obit in the paper today, and I felt quite sad as I read the news. Sprinkle’s first art prank, a ball-and-chain attached to the foot of SAM’s Hammering Man downtown (to my surprise, over a decade ago) still makes me chuckle. His last, a too-successful work which resulted in a full-blown terror scare, still makes me shake my head in disgust over the irresponsibly paranoiac response of the city and law-enforcement authorities.
Revealingly, I learned much more about the artist in the obituary than in any of the articles I enjoyed concerning his works at the time of their execution.
Jim Hurd
The rumors are true: Jim Hurd bloggeth. Hope for old people springs eternal ; )
Alan Moore drops DC for Top Shelf
Excellent long piece on Alan Moore’s relationship with DC, as highlighted on BB.
Philly Matt
Matt and Laura are settling into Philly. I have a mission for Matt when he’s ready.
Off to the north
Daymented has won in her year-long struggle with Canada!
Treoage
My Treo was stuck in a reboot loop, so I gathered links.
How to edit the preset favorites on a locked Treo. How to enter debug mode at boot (hold the up-arrow key on the little navigation pad thingy). How to flash the ROM in a Treo 650. Shadowmite’s Treo hacks site. Using a Sprint Treo 650 as a bluetooth dial-up modem with Sahadowmite’s DUN hack in place.
fastmail
FastMailWiki will help me as I navigate the transition between running my own sendmail and having fastmail provide primary hosting. I already hate the piece-rate alias charges. Ah well.