knowledge is a habit

I’ve had a Sansa e260 player for about 18 months. Most of those months the player has lay idle because I grew tired of my MP3 collection and have not been able to successfully hook the player up to our household Real Rhapsody account.
Last night I gave it another shot. A firmware update came [...]

The EPA has a site where you can find out what mix of power generation sources supply your zip code.
EPA Power Profiler
– Dave

There are some fantastic turntables here at The Funky Way’s collection of the Exotic Turntables of the World:
http://www.thefunkyway.com/gearmus/djgear/decks/
– Dave

Here’s a post on painting perfect circles using old school drafting tools.
http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/11/how_to_make_cir.html
I used to use one of those pens that you drop the ink into when I was in drafting class. Never thought of using it for painting. A compass set at Staples is about $15. You can also use the pen with a ruler [...]

I’ve been looking for a small form factor laptop for awhile so I got a surplus laptop from work. Its a Toshiba Portege 320CT. Exactly what I was looking for. Its smaller than a sheet of letter size paper, about 1″ thick. 96mb ram, 266mhz, 4gb hard drive. Perfectly portable, something to throw in the [...]

Allright, I’m a packrat when it comes to papers. My friend Todd in Asheville owns a couple of businesses and is constantly chased by the paper tiger. He told me he started scanning all his stuff in so he has access to it on his laptop. I’m not sure what kind of scanner he uses [...]

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.0. Hopefully this will cure my fear of posting. Previous version of WordPress didn’t always confirm that you posted successfully so I was kind of gun shy after losing some posts.
And my latest obsession is this…
– Dave

Here’s a collection of ‘transparent’ desktops:
Check these here
A friend of mine at work (wassup Joey C!) did something similar a few years ago where he created a recursive picture of his office as his desktop. He edited the monitor in the picture to have the picture as the desktop, and so on and so on. [...]