Monthly Archives: February 2006

Google’s hosting and publishing simple personal pages.

By MattK | Published: February 24, 2006
snarkhunt – This is no boojum. That’s mine. How can we play with this better?
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Book: In the Palaces of Memory – Good look at formation of memories and of theories

By MattK | Published: February 22, 2006
My bocce crew, the Old Dirty Barristers, played this weekend and while I was in Floyd’s I found this book. I nearly forgot to keep playing. The book has plenty of good non-scientist explanations of theories about how memories form. That’s a really important topic. If there is no biological meat mechanism where memories are [...]
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Howto turn a disposable camera into a projector

By MattK | Published: February 21, 2006
FLASHPOINT This is a great way to turn trash into something useful. Would be great to make a couple of these with faces for a party and just leave them running. Note to self-turn Sol onto this. Tags: hacks howto pranks
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Rollyo: Roll Your Own Search Engine

By MattK | Published: February 21, 2006
Rollyo: Roll Your Own Search Engine Holy crap. This seems to be so awesome. It uses yahoo’s engine to search your terms at a specific number of websites. You can have topic specific search from sources you trust – it would be nice if OutFoxed linked in with this. Seems like this is sort of [...]
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I’ll be going to brazil next week.

By MattK | Published: February 21, 2006
Sam and I are going with friends to the carnival in Brazil. We’ll be in Rio and someplace in Bahia. I’ll be offline and without cellphone. If you know of some great thing in Brazil to check out, or if there is something legal you want me to bring back, please let me know before [...]
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Build It: A Homemade Media Center PC

By MattK | Published: February 21, 2006
Feature from PC Magazine: Build It: A Homemade Media Center PC Actually, this is just a test of a script change to make blogger’s blogthis extension play nice with the greasemonkey script I use for tagging. Edit: the test worked. But I’m going to read that article anyway. Tags: mce htpc mediacenter
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Programming: The standard treeview doesn’t really support xml

By MattK | Published: February 21, 2006
I’m putting together a utility at work that generates stylesheets given the output of a stored procedure in xml. There are a lot of choices on how to represent this. I thought a tree-view would be nice (like the left hand side of windows explorer), but it looks like there is no good way to [...]
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Site exists to proclaim hatred of cilantro.

By MattK | Published: February 21, 2006
Of course, I joined up. Cilantro is the worst flavoring ever. It’s always being snuck into my food. I hate cilantro. Tags: cilantro food
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Stereo Bluetooth Headset – this is what I want

By MattK | Published: February 16, 2006
Stereo Bluetooth™ Headset HBH-DS970 – Specifications – - Mobile phone accessory – Sony Ericsson I want to wear my headphones and listen to music. Use the tiny remote to see what song is playing and fastforward, skip, etc. When a call comes in, the music pauses and I speak using the mic in the remote, [...]
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fallenidol: How to download trailers from the Apple site WITHOUT Quicktime PRO

By MattK | Published: February 15, 2006
fallenidol: How to download trailers from the Apple site WITHOUT Quicktime PRO I saw this in my delicious feed. It looks similar to what I did for my This Mobile Life greasemonkey script. Perhaps I can automate this a little for people. It may be possible to make a GM_XmlHttpRequest on the file linked, determine [...]
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