“Groovy Mother…” :: Entries for Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Entries for Wednesday, January 10, 2007

➠ January 10, 2007

My nabaztag/tag has shipped from ThinkGeek. Woooo!

Posted to Twitter at 8:44 p.m.

DirecTV HD is finally set-up. Watching “An Inconvenient Truth” in HD. Just because I can, really.

Posted to Twitter at 3:09 p.m.

Seeing “MyGamesFever” for the first time. Depressed that daytime broadcast TV has come to this. Come back Jerry Springer, all is forgiven.

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Posted to Twitter at 2:20 p.m.

BBC NEWS | Public can purchase $100 laptop

Fantastic if it pans out — The great unwashed will be allowed to buy (on eBay?!) an OLPC laptop, so long as they simultaneously pay for a second one to be shipping to the developing world. Sign me up!

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Filed under : olpc : one laptop per child

SitePen Blog » Offline Gmail and Blogger Using the Dojo Offline Toolkit

First stages of the Dojo “offline toolkit”: Mockups imagining how it could be used to make GMail or Blogger usable when you don’t have an active net connection. Looks like it could be a game-changer.

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Crumpled Clyde

Playing with my new camera. Here's Clyde's preferred sleep position: Head off the mat, ear covering eyes and/or nose.

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Filed under : basset : basset hound : clyde

DirecTV guy claims he is running late, because he had to wait for my HD DVR to be delivered to his office this morning. HD is on its way. Hurrah!

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Posted to Twitter at 12:03 p.m.

DirecTV Guy == Godot, apparently. On the phone to DirecTV central *again*.

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Posted to Twitter at 11:50 a.m.

O'Reilly Radar > TurkTunes?

Combine Amazon’s various webservices to create a “hum a song into a microphone and find out what it is” system. Most cunning feature: Using the “Mechanical Turk” artificial-artificial-intelligence service to use humans to identify your humming!

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Filed under : amazon : mechanical turk : web services

Working from home, waiting for the DirecTV guy again.

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Posted to Twitter at 8:22 a.m.

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