Archive for September, 2008

September 7th

Faked Fox News Image - Obama/Biden, Osama Bin Laden, Coincidence?

By now, if you haven't seen this you are probably living under a rock, don't own a TV and don't participate in any online political discussions. I have gotten tired of seeing this...
September 1st

SMS Auto Reply - Update!

Tonight I received some inspiration and decided to brush off the old SMS Auto Reply code. I've now made it capable of responding to either incoming calls or SMS messages. You can also add...

Archive for May, 2008

May 28th

Spike in BT Audio Downloads

I've noticed there are a lot of people coming to download my shareware utility BT Audio . I find that very gratifying, and appreciate all of the donations I have received. One note I would...

Archive for March, 2008

March 5th

Today is my birthday

I'm 34. Go me.

Archive for January, 2008

January 24th

AT&T Tilt (HTC Kaiser) Hidden GPS Photo Mode

Buried within the registry on the Tilt is a camera mode that some people here will no doubt be interested in. "GPS Photo" is its name. As the name implies, in this mode, the built-in GPS is...

Archive for December, 2007

December 26th

United Airlines "Economy Plus" is a complete fraud

That's right, a fraud. In case anyone doesn't fly United and doesn't know what I'm talking about, Economy Plus is a marketing ploy to try to get people to pay for reasonable legroom. What...
December 12th

Plumbing is fun. Oh, did I say fun? I meant....

Not fun. I decided to replace the faucet on my bathroom sink tonight. The old faucet was too short, too close to the back edge of the sink, and had some other design defects which have annoyed...

Archive for November, 2007

November 26th

SMS Auto Reply Tool - Update

In an earlier post, I mentioned that I wrote a tool I call SMS Auto Reply for Windows Mobile 5 devices. It's a small utility that allows you to do the mobile phone equivalent of setting an "away"...
November 20th

Vector VEC051D Power Inverter

I found a nice 3000W inverter locally for an exceptionally good price. They list for around $350 at most stores. Download the manual Let's just say for now that I didn't spend...
November 17th

1985 Palomino MXL

Last weekend I bought a pop-up camper called a Palomino. It's a hard-sided popup, which is pretty neat. The only canvas parts are the bunkends, so overall the thing seems pretty durable. ...
November 16th

Ha, ha spammers. CAPTCHA pwns you.

That's right. I had to install a CAPTCHA on my blog. The spammers really are persistent. I thought that comment moderation for any comments including links would be sufficient. The spammers...
November 13th

SMS Auto Reply Tool

I wrote a tool I call SMS Auto Reply for Windows Mobile 5 devices. It's a small utility that allows you to do the mobile phone equivalent of setting an "away" message. Basically, after you...
November 6th

Free Microsoft Press Books

Justin Angel, a Microsoft C# MVP is giving away a bunch of .NET 2.0 books. http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/justinangel/archive/2007/11/05/i-m-giving-free-microsoft-press-books.aspx
November 4th

Hawk Mountain Sanctuary

Went hiking there on Saturday with my girlfriend. It was a beautiful day to do it, even though it was no more than 50-55F all day. We started at the visitor's center, took the trail up to the...

Religious Tracts

On Saturday I received these while hiking at Hawk Mountain Sanctuary. On the back, it said: Quote: You have pacified your conscience by saying that you would find peace with God...

Archive for September, 2007

September 12th

GPL Considered Toxic - Avoid at any cost

http://kuoi.com/~kamikaze/read.php?topic=Software&id=157 I really like what this guy has to say about the GPL. He's summed up in a way I haven't been able to, in less than a page, why I...

Archive for January, 2007

January 1st

BT Audio - Bluetooth Audio Redirector For Windows Mobile 5

BT Audio BT Audio is a shareware Windows Mobile 5 application that enables the use of ordinary Bluetooth headsets for listening to audio such as Media Player streams, Audible eBooks, TomTom...

Archive for December, 2006

December 1st

Motorola PC850 Bluetooth Driver Hack

Motorola PC850 Bluetooth Driver (BCM92035DGROM, BCM2035, Vid_22b8&Pid_0850) I have the PC850 bluetooth adapter from Motorola. It came with a set of nice stereo bluetooth headphones. But, it...

Archive for June, 2006

June 11th

Microsoft Tech-Ed 2006

I get to spend this week in Boston, to attend Microsoft's Tech-Ed conference. It should be pretty informative. I hope to spend most of my time in the Architecture track session, though I will...

Archive for May, 2006

May 10th

Failed to start monitoring changes to {directory name}

So after much forehead-flattening headbanging, I finally found out why I was getting this infuriating error message in my ASP.NET application. "Failed to start monitoring changes to...