Archive for August, 2005
Haunted House List
While I’m watching Katrina rip into my vacation plans at way over 100mph winds, I made some progress on HauntedHouseNation.com. It’s not done yet, and it still only listing DFW Haunted Houses, but you can put in your zip and the map will reload with that zip.
I’m not going to make it AJAX(like Google […]
HauntedHouseNation.com
I’m taking dallashalloween.com national. The new address is hauntedhousenation.com. All existing submissions will remain, and I’m working no getting the system set up to do Haunted Houses within 20 mi. from my location, etc… Gotta get the software updated, but soon!
DallasHalloween.com Haunted House List
The Dallas Halloween Haunted House List is up for 2005, and it’s using Google Maps beautifully. Still a few bugs here and there, but it’s looking great and working great. Check it out, and if you have any additions, let me know.
Spam Blogs
Looks like Technorati is finally starting to do something about Spam Blogs. Not doing much yet, but hopefully more soon.
2.7 Million VoIP Users
2.7 Million VoIP Users and Growing
The internet has a new bandwidth hog.
Playing with the Google Maps API
On my Other Blog I’ve been playing with the Google Maps API. It’s very cool, and I wonder how much XUL integration it can handle? Check it out, it’s a small example now, but I’m expanding on it.
Software Integration and OSS
I’m a big believer in Software Integration, especially in OSS software. I’ve never understood why most OSS programmers haven’t gone to that logical next step to create software integration paths. For example, if I send an email to somebody through Thunderbird, I should be able to see if they are online or not via one […]
VoIP Could Provide Better E911
Something I’ve always thought and agreed with, VoIP could provide better E911 and should. Address and name is simply not enough. When I was younger a neighbor’s house caught on fire. You could hear the firetrucks and ambulances on the OTHER block.
We were on a type of U street that connected to only one street(two […]
Flat-Screen TV Prices are finally Falling
Flat Screen TV Prices are Finally Falling, but I still want a big projector, or maybe even a 3D Projector. But still, very cool. =) I definately need a new TV.
AdSense Firefox Extension
Firefox Adsense Extension.
Very Cool, and another reason I love Firefox, it’s incredibly customizable and useful. Plus most of the extensions are cross-platform for Mac, *Bsd, *Nix, and Windows. You can’t beat that!
Unfortunately, I have to watch over 2 adsense accounts, a personal one and then one that one of the businesses I run use. But […]
Firefox hits 80m Downloads
Asa Reports that Firefox has hit 80million downloads. This number is great, but commercial interests need percentages of users.
Well, this article shows about 5.7% on Feb 18th.
Let’s assume 5%. That’s 1 in 20. Store owners do not kick out every 1 in 20 people shopping at their store. 5% means nothing to computer geeks, but […]
FreeBSD, an Open Source Alternative to Linux
Find the Whitepaper Here.
Also, FreeBSD 6.0 Todo and Status, along with Release Schedule.
And for kicks, a link to BSD Freak News and to The Texas Renaissance Faire.
Enjoy! I’m outta town tomorrow, will try to post from San Diego if I can, otherwise it’ll be a few weeks.
Mars Reconaissance Orbiter has Taken Off
I’ve always thought Space Travel was cool, and I’ve been watching Voyager like crazy all week(Yeah, I know, big difference, one is real the other isn’t). But hey, The Mars Reconaissance Orbiter has taken off. Always a cool thing.
My Comment on DesktopBSD
Ok, on the article about DesktopBSD on Slashdot I said this:
When is starts to fracture.
For awhile there, we only had 3, and life was good. Now we have DragonFly, Darwin, and now DesktopBSD. Any system that splits up so much must be dead or dying!!
It was a joke people, I’ve got FreeBSD on two […]
FCC Wants to Tap Your VoIP and other VoIP News Today
The FCC Wants to Tap Your VoIP. Well, that doesn’t make a lot of sense. When Phones originally came out, did anyone want to tap phones then? Nope! It wasn’t until later.
This and other news…
Asa Dotzler Wants Your Best FireFox Tip
From Asa Dotzler.
If you think you’ve got some good tips or tricks for Firefox that I might not know, please post them here I’ve got a Firefox polo shirt for the person with the most interesting item that’s new to me.
Taking a look I’ve found a few good ones from his comments, but […]
ADOdb Lite
ADOdb Lite has some Benchmarks Up. Looks like it has a speed advantage. I’m gonna have to check it out sometime. One of the ADOdb Guys
P2P SIP / Peer-to-Peer VoIP
Looks like there is some development on peer-to-peer SIP going on.
After some quick searching, I was able to find this page with more information. Also I found more informative links than anything I could post here:
Wombat Nation
P2P Using VoIP and Open Standards
P2P SIP is on it’s way, retailers need to wake up
What impact will […]
Taking Apart the Mighty Mouse
Over at Ars Technica you can see them take apart the Might Mouse from Apple. Pretty cool, but not what you expected. It looks like it’s pretty sparse inside.
New Hard Drive
I just saw this link over at ThriftList.
250Gig SATA for about $100. Hell yeah! Uh, when I’ve got some extra cash. My little 90gig is pretty full.