Posted in Life, tagged antenna, diy, hd on May 31, 2008 | 5 Comments »
2 great iPhotos
Originally uploaded by danbrint
Seeing the post over at metacafe some while ago I decided I just HAD to build one of these for myself if only to see if it worked
I procured the now elusive metal coat-hangers and the cheap (5 bucks at RadioShack in Canada!) vhf/uhf thingy and whipped this [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m heading over to PeopleBurg
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So I’m blessed with being able to attend Oracle’s premier user conference OpenWorld again this year. The city is great the conference content is the best and just to make it interesting I’m offering up to present as well.
Oracle now has a very nice community ‘mixer’ in which you can submit presentations you’d either like [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Mike R showed me some of Demitri Martin’s more recent work in comedy the other day (hillarious) and then today I stumbled upon a video of him and realized I had seen some of this guys gifted work before.
If you’re a geek and need some geek style laughs you can start here:
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Posted in Uncategorized on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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Originally uploaded by danbrint
Ok, so I broke down (not much of a stretch mind you) and bought myself a new camera.
I used to do ‘real photography’ way back when and considered myself not half bad. So now I’ve handed down my last P&S to my wife and kids and got an ‘entry level’ Nikon D40. [...]
Posted in Life on May 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you can watch the following and not be moved then I feel sorry for you.
Courtesy of Gimundo (again).
Posted in Life on May 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a huge fan of any sort of data visualization – probably why my presentations are so information laden, graphic intensive and no doubt painful to endure
So when I saw this site which seeks to put military spending for the War on Iraq in a framework we can actually grasp I was impressed. [...]
Posted in Life on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently the insipration behind the movie legend, you can read about Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett over at the museum of unnatural history if you are the inquisitive type.
Posted in Life on May 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
As I’ve mentioned before I’ve grown tired of the ever depressing mainstream news and subscribed to Gimundo – which offers ‘a daily dose of good news’. Today I received a story that was co-incidentally also on Ellen the other day that I found quite moving (yeah I’m getting old).
After hearing about all the rich spoiled [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
And this is hillarious:
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