I just updated my router (Linksys WRT54GL) with the Tomato Firmware. Here are my initial observations:
The upgrade was much faster and easier than I was anticipating. After writing down some settings I had with the default firmware, I flashed the router. A couple minutes later, I was in the tomato interface completing the last of [...]
This is the view from my office taken with my G1:
This is the view from my office according to Google’s new 3D buildings in Downtown Memphis:
Have I ever mentioned that technology is freaking amazing?
Janna and I (and Janna’s mom) spent last week in California hanging out with our niece and nephews while their parents were out of town. We had a lot of fun, and did neat things, like going to Death Valley, Hollywood, and seeing giant sequoia trees: things you don’t see in the Mid-South. It reminds [...]
Ever since it was pretty clear that Ron Paul would not be the Republican nominee, I’ve planned on voting for someone who is not John McCain or Barack Obama. I’ve learned enough over the past year and a half to realize that neither of those represents the kind of change this country needs, and in [...]
It is absolutely amazing how fast things can happen. Only a few weeks ago Janna and I decided to start the process of relocating to the Memphis area. We put our house on the market and started to casually look at houses to buy. Considering all the mess with the housing market, we expected for [...]
For anyone who may not have heard, I have accepted a position with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN, and will be starting On April 7. I’m pretty excited about it, I’ll be working with a very talented team on some interesting web sites that are aimed at the international medical community. [...]
The last week of August, Dr. Ron Paul’s presidential campaign set a goal to raise half a million dollars before the end of the month and the third quarter. After about 3 days, that goal was reached and double to one million dollars. When the quarter ended, the online donations for that last [...]
I’m not trying to jump on the Ron Paul web traffic wave… No really, I promise.
Ron Paul caught my attention after the last Republican debate. I started reading up on him and watching videos of some of his speeches. Basically, he believes in the things that make this a great country, specifically the [...]
For the two next hours and a little bit (until 5 PM Eastern, 5/8/07), the Department of Homeland Security is accepting comments from the public about REAL ID. The Privacy Coalition has a page detailing how you can contact them and let your voice be heard. So please go and submit your comment [...]
Wondering what the “vim-pager” use flag on app-editors/vim did, I gave it a shot. Turns out it gives you 2 extra commands: vimpager and vimmanpager. So adding
export MANPAGER=/usr/bin/vimmanpager
to your login script of choice (.bashrc works just fine), man will use vim as a pager, complete with systax highlighting and ability to use the [...]