Archive for November, 2009

November 2nd

GM Passlock II Sucks - Or, why won't my GM vehicle start?

I have a 1998 Chevy Tahoe. It's been a great truck. I bought it with around 90k miles, and it now has around 134k miles. I've driven it to Alaska, Minnesota, Colorado and other distant places. I...

Archive for October, 2009

October 8th

American Community Survey

I am one of the many unfortunate recipients of the American Community Survey. I believe the questions in it to be invasive to the point of being unconstitutional. The survey paperwork...

Archive for September, 2009

September 19th

How-To: Load Raster Maps From NOAA onto your Magellan Triton 2000 GPS

When the Magellan Triton 2000 GPS came out, I was in the market for a new GPS unit, as my Garmin eTrex Vista had been stolen. I was immediately frustrated with the lack of a useful base map on...

Archive for February, 2009

February 3rd

HTC Touch Pro / AT&T Fuze Review - Update

I'm quite happy with my Fuze. The only thing that has really frustrated me so far is the WiFi performance. It really just doesn't seem to work right under some circumstances, so I'm going to...

Archive for January, 2009

January 15th

AT&T Fuze / Touch Pro / HTC P4600 Review

This is all based on initial impressions. Some of this may change as I get to know the device a little better. The Good The graphics are awesome. Once you go VGA, you'll never go back....

Archive for December, 2008

December 3rd

Hello, comment spammers!

I see you, "Busby SEO Test" and I don't like what you are doing. So, I have removed the ability to make your name a link of any kind. Please stop posting your stupid comment spam on my...

Archive for September, 2008

September 7th

I Found Your Camera

Since I'm also a photographer, and have lost cameras and had cameras stolen from me, I thought this was a really, really awesome site: http://ifoundyourcamera.blogspot.com/ If you find...

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