Entering The Woods
Finally got my copy of Sleater-Kinney’s new album, The Woods today. Whee!
Government finally realises that young drivers are being discrimiated against
CBC News: Nfld. bans insurance rates based on age, gender – Duh! If you’re under 25 and you own a car, you know why your insurance rates are so high: because insurance companies think you are “high-risk” because of your age. Doubly so if you are under 25 and male. Well Newfoundland finally got a […]
Pass the Pepper, please…
A few weeks ago I caught wind of a new portable computer, called the Pepper Pad. Obligatory product feature photo: Link to actual photo I was immediately drawn to it for a number of reasons: It’s very much like a Newton on steroids: an 800×600 touch-sensitive screen, in the middle of a split QWERTY layout […]
info board is almost complete…
Well, one week later, the info board software is good to go. It boots up, connects to the wireless network no problem, and starts up into links in graphic mode, full-screen, and pulls up the info page, which displays: Weather Forecast (via the excellent RSSWeather) CBC News Headlines (via CBC RSS) IMDB News Headlines (love […]
Sleater-Kinney News
New album “The Woods” out May 24. They’re playing The Phoenix in Toronto on June 18th. Which is our one year anniversary.
info board progress
I got the 802.11b networking finally, thanks to double-checking the SSID (note: SSIDs are case sensitive!) and upgrading the kernel for good measure. Ended up scrapping SVGAlib and installing an X server and using links on XWindows with no window manager, just one full-screen browser window. Looks good! Now that I’m running XWindows though I […]
