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 […]
Info board status
Well Sandy loved my infoboard idea, so I’m slowly moving ahead with it. I’ve been trying hard to get 802.11b drivers running on RedHat 6.2, but it’s just not flying. I’m going to have to try and upgrade the little laptop to RedHat 8.0 so I get a 2.4 kernel, and then things should be […]
still blogging sculpture garden
Oh crap. It’s a sandbox. What a stupid thing to put in the middle of downtown Toronto… doesn’t everyone know that sandboxes are filled with pet crap and, well, just dirty in general? For those who don’t know, right across the path from the garden is the patio of an expensive French restaurant. I’m sure […]
sculpture garden construction day 3
I saw workers building this over lunch yesterday, snapped the photo this morning. We’re getting a jungle gym! Hooray! It was hilarious to watch the workers because there were three fortysomething construction-types, wearing safety vests, hardhats, etc, assembling brightly-coloured metal bits into what looks like a playground fixture, while looking as surly as possible.
The urge to be a geek
You might remember a long time ago I started to make a digital picture frame out of an old laptop I had. It was basicially finished except for the external stand or hanging hardware. However since I’ve worked on it we’ve moved twice and the hardware is still sitting in a box in the closet. […]
