GBA clone

I think i found a game unit (game boy advance clone) intentionaly built for piracy. called the

Fieon Digital PMP

Naval Safety

Naval Safety has the best pictures when you go to do your weekly safety topic with your employees. I love this website.

Zillow

have you guys seen Zillow? check out how they got their name:

Once they hatched their idea, they needed a name. "Zillow" evolved from the desire to make zillions of data points for homes accessible to everyone. But a home is about more than data - it is where you lay your head to rest at night, like a pillow. Thus, "Zillow" was born. They knew they had a winning name when employees began talking in Z-language and newly-minted words starting with "Z" popped up everywhere (e.g., Zestimate™, Zindex™).

Whoosh Boom Splat

Whoosh Boom Splat
is a new book I'm hoping the local library has.
check out the commercial on the website for the new book. it's awesome.

The author, William Gurstelle, maintains a blog and looks like a great guy to get to know.

milling machine / old engine

multimachines yahoo groups about multimachines (lathe, press, ect) made from old engines.

login to yahoo groups with bugmenot, join the group, and download How to build a multimachine.pdf

makes for some interesting reading

foundit

look what i found in google-earth. any guesses as to what it is?

Giant Snail

"don't fill the bowl more than a few mm deep or your snail will drown." ends with "have fun with your snail"

next monitor

*updated, see the 2407 compared to the samsung (same display i think) here

I have been looking off and on for the next monitor to replace the SUN GDM-5410 Sony Trinitron wonder and it just may have to be the Dell UltraSharp 2407WFP. weighing in at 14 lbs, contrast 1000:1, a 24" diagnal with .27mm pitch at 1920x1200, I think i might be able to do something with it. a little on the slow side with 16ms response for black to white. specs say very wide vertical and horizontal viewing angle. i think its got S-video in, and Picture-in-Picture. how handy. looks like its currently $629

For the budget minded, Newegg has a 22" acer for $259, this runs at the 1680x1050 like all of the other 20-22" in this category.

Wei-Hwa's Puzzle Gadget

I read it on bram cohen's blog (the bitorrent creator). he likes puzzles like a certain someone i know. find some fun ones on puzzle gadget i've started on last chessman standing and made it through a few levels. i hacked together 10 seconds of pbrush as I don't have paint.net installed on this machine. enjoy the artwork.

Web Browsers and Interesting Warnings

a while ago the speed of opera was touted somewhere on this blog. (i'd dig up the post but i have gotten tired of trying to use search this blog since it always returns nothing i want or nothing at all.) and so when i needed to be able to easily login to two different google accounts i thought of dl opera for the second account. then i can keep firefox logged in to my main google account and then log in to my other google account that is less often used on opera.

so today i went to use opera to access docs.google.com, which is the primary reason i have the second account and google rejects me. sigh... i guess it is back to ie as the second browser. but the rejection google had was interesting to read in the fine print.

oh ya... and anyone heard of/using mozilla seamonkey? i mean the name itself makes me want to use it.

homopolar

its a motor, don't worry, i wouldn't do that to you.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=homopolar

kaneva.com

I stumbled across http://www.kaneva.com/ and it may just be another no name social networking service, not sure yet, but it does appear to have one interesting feature, the integration of a 3dworld. maybe this is where second life meets myspace or something. i'l have to check it out when I get time.

Raise

I am in the process of getting a new job. YAY.... I'm transfering back to where i use to work in engineering as an engineering lead (functional lead) which means I have all the responsibility of a boss, with none of the authority, as well as all of the requirements of a normal worker. its like two jobs rolled into one with none of the glory. heres the good part, I negotiated a pretty good raise out of it. so when you guys move around (you should change responsibilites every few years to maximize pay) always shoot high and get the raises you deserve

FON upgrade to DD-WRT

I read an interesting tutorial.

It's a good thing I saw it coming and signed up for me FREE FON a few weeks ago.

A dissected La Fonera router can be modified to have an RS232 port. That looked like a bit of work.

and of course, after I finished, this reading, made a lot more sense and I wish I'd found it first.

remember: on some webpages, 1 and l look the same. not a good thing.

many thanks to the dd-wrt team for providing a modified compile for this .

VoIP sniffing

a good video.

CAIN looks like a fun program.
oh how I long for the days of hubbed network instead of our switched one.

NING

In the light of RSS screwing with us, is it time to get the dingy out and float nerdytales to a different vessel?

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/26/ning-in-full/

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/02/27/ning-demo-video/

recent comment updated

i placed a new script on the recents comments thing. its still screwed up cause blogger has screwed up the recent comments feed to feed old info as well as new, but I have high hopes in the hear future blogger will return it to its old glory of and uphold the ideal that RSS feeds NEW Info. at any rate, its implemented and in place and in its current state lets you see little of our 'history' as well as the new stuff.


*** ahhh.. never mind. looks like its off by a year. we'll let it ride for a few days and if it doesn't 'fix itself' i'll finda new script

social outsourcing

first off, I want to point out again that the recent comments info is both useless and ugly on this blog. it is probably the sole reason i dont keep tabs on nerdy tales as much as I did before. maybe we should just remove it and rely on the rss feed for new comment info?

I've been reading 'the world is flat' and it so far it has provided an interesting perspective on the events that have transpired over the last 15 years to 'flatten' the world, create free trade, and in general, what has allowed individuals to be personally empowered to get things done instead of relying on government, organizations, corporations, or bureaucracy. ok.. ok... thats me putting my spin on it, but none the less, thats what i'm getting out of it.

i've made it to about page 200 and the one idea i have been struck with so far is the concept of social outsourcing. this is not directly talked about in the book, but I believe is probably the next 'big thing'. where can I put down any task I want solved and then get external bids on it from around the world, or bid by my local contractor next door. do any of these networks (websites?) exist yet?

some examples of primarily IT/IS/coding social outsourcing
http://www.getafreelancer.com
http://www.thecentralmall.com
http://www.gisbid.com
http://www.rentacoder.com
http://www.scriptlance.com/

thats great for those that like to code, but wheres the social network for me finding my own personal assistant in india to work while i'm asleep? where do I post my project to repaint the house and get it bid locally. where do I post a request for bid to have someone walk the dog, or buy groceries for my shut in neighbor?

i need to create a website where anyone from any where can post an RFQ (request for quote). give the option to list their location and whether it is possible to be outsourced abroad or required to be serviced from the same location. win/win for all.

free music

and by free, i mean 'free' as in, it's in the url and actually leads to a .mp3 (128kbps stereo)
checkout http://www.last.fm/charts/free

i really like

• museum - for the very first time
• the legends - play it for today

and those are 2 of the first 4 i grabbed. i wonder if my 20 months of techno is over. there is some good stuff on there.

piratebay guys

From the article:

Pirate Bay has now taken careful steps to ensure that any future raids will inflict minimal disruption to the service. "We have divided the servers up geographically—they are hidden," explains Svartholm. "If they come after us again they will only find our front end. A single metal box with a short message stuck on the front: 'You forgot to take my label writer.'"