ROTFLMFAO at 3am!
I’m sitting here laughing hysterically at 3am trying not to wake the whole house. Found this old fail surfing youtube:
October 11, 2009 | Startups | No comments
MySQL GIS Extensions Quick Start
A friend is busy putting together a kick ass startup with a strong geographic component. He’s using Google Maps API version 3 which is a vast improvement (and total rewrite) from previous versions. But he needs to store and query his geographic data in a fast efficient way. There are many options out there, but […]
October 10, 2009 | mysql | 7 comments
NASA's little security oops
Last night I logged on to NASA’s Mauna Kea observatory live video feed to watch LCROSS slam into the moon. After LCROSS was finished pancaking into the moon and not producing the expected 6 mile plume, I noticed an IP address flash on the top right of the video display. So I hit it with […]
October 10, 2009 | NASA | No comments
Will Twitter's lax data ownership policy result in jail time?
Update: My real-time traffic feed says it all. 🙂 Thanks for the mention and link-love M.G. and Techcrunch. Two people died and 19 passed out at an Arizona sweat lodge last night. The author who hosted the event is James Arthur Ray and is an avid Twitterer. He deleted his 10 most recent tweets after […]
October 9, 2009 | Startups | 1 comment
The real LCROSS mission
October 9, 2009 | Startups | No comments
Remove GoBoingo to fix MacBook WiFi pauses, stutters, hiccups, latency, delays
I recently upgraded our router to the Linksys WRT320N router. I set the router to only transmit on 5GHz and the performance has been awesome because all our neighbors are still on 2.4 GHz, our 2.4 GHz cordless phones don’t interfere with our WiFi anymore and because 5GHz is better at getting around corners and […]
October 7, 2009 | Apple | No comments
Home remedy to de-skunk your dog, FAST!
Our 4 year old aussie cattle dog Joey just got skunked. My sister in law feeds left-over chicken to the local skunks and a big one arrived. We accidentally left Joey outside. Next thing the neighbor knocks on the door saying “Your dog is outside and he’s been skunked!” I’ve never smelled skunk before. It’s […]
October 3, 2009 | Aussie Cattle Dogs | No comments