Carolyn popped into town this weekend on last minutes notice. I wasn’t sure how I would handle that, but it went swimmingly well. We went to the rose garden, I took her to Reo’s, we watched Network (amazing) and then were up until 3:30 figuring out where we went wrong and why we go wrong.… Continue reading Growing up
Author: Steve Riggins
Siping your tires
I had never heard of siping your tires until I was forced into a new set last week when one decided to go bye bye. I read the pamphlet, it made sense, and the tires are quiet and they worked well in the rain on 101. Others can explain it better, but if you drive… Continue reading Siping your tires
Faxing with a Brother M740
I tried faxing over my Vonage line today via the Motorola VT1005 gateway with my Brother M740 fax machine. Nada. Just a click and dead. So I called Vonage and the dude was awesome. Raised my voice quality back to highest (now need to check my router again), changed my SIP registration expired down to… Continue reading Faxing with a Brother M740
Election Prediction
More registered Democrats will see Fahrenheit 9/11 than will vote at the polls.
More Windows IE insecurity flaws
People! Do NOT use Windows Internet Explorer, ever, ever, ever! I’m not even saying get a mac, but at least go get Mozilla or Firefox! Up to 9 more patches today and 4 new holes in IE. Read more here
Quick Update
Trip to Victoria was great! TK4 is in full swing now. I have an accountant and QuickBooks, might even become an S-Corp. I’ve been busy learning new technologies, such as Tweak. The PMUG general meeting last night was a blast I saw sweethaven from IRC and met a bunch of nice people, answered questions, had… Continue reading Quick Update
Safari Smart Folders
Now that Tiger is bringing BeOS like search to the entire OS, it would be cool if this worked for Safari bookmarks. I can never find them and I have 1000s and well folders suck (as Steve said so himself) But the problem with bookmarks is that there is little meta data in them, just… Continue reading Safari Smart Folders
Burn to external DVDs with iDVD!
Posted on rpc1.org there is an easter egg in iDVD that allows you to burn iDVD projects to an external burner or a disk image! Download The stuffit file named idvdeasteregg.sit Unstuff the file into the folder named “HPfurz” Copy the files “Hurz” and “Pfurz” into your Home directory (next to Documents, Pictures, etc) Open… Continue reading Burn to external DVDs with iDVD!
Sushi baseball
This popped into my head while chatting with Pam. Grammar corrected. Take me out to the ball game, take me out with the crowd, buy me some tuna and yellowtail, fuck all tradition it can go straight to hell oh lets hit the visitors with wasabi, they won’t quite be the same, for its one,… Continue reading Sushi baseball
Maybe I can buy from Amazon again
I’ve bought one thing from Amazon in 4 years – Not bad for my boycott – And I knowingly paid more for things locally, too. Ever since they went to bed with Toys R Us, I have been boycotting them. Now that there might be a divorce in the works, maybe I can once again… Continue reading Maybe I can buy from Amazon again
Numbers lie
According to Techworld Mac OS X has had similar vulnerabilities in number to Windows and thus is no more secure. Whatever. Hello, most Mac OS X issues are not exploitable out of the box, I think one was. So I wake up and find this today from The Laporte Report The Despartment of Homeland Security… Continue reading Numbers lie
Quote of the day
I think these new meds do have an effect on me. From IRC, on installing Linux onto a Gateway AIO: Course it could just install and work. But still, its a Gateway. Ick. I used to pass their store here when I’d get a coffee shake, often thinking if I hung around for an hour… Continue reading Quote of the day
Finally finished WC III Undead campaign
Man this took me for what seemed like years, I kept losing and losing, rarely played it. Finally installed WC III on my G5, moved files over from the PC, and after a month and three attempts, I started over and won. I used my Hero to keep healing my units, I sent out ghouls… Continue reading Finally finished WC III Undead campaign
TiVo calls via Vonage
For a year now, I’ve used my Series 1 DirecTiVo with my Vonage broadband phone connection to phone DirecTV for updates and to let them know that I had not purchased any movies. When I got home from my trip to L.A., the TiVo was telling it could not dial into DirecTV. So after some… Continue reading TiVo calls via Vonage
Back in L.A.
I was in NY yesterday with Carl and Elly from Cornell to talk about Fedora and TK4. Then I flew home in the afternoon and am back in L.A. Tonight is Magic, then time with my family and friends and home this weekend!
My Day
4:30am Take Matt and Roslynn to airport 9:00am Pick up rental car at airport 9:30am Take Tuxedos to Glendale, avoiding I-5/tipped over trailer mess 3:00pm Pick up Rik at the aiport and go to USC 4:40pm Pick up Tim and John at the airport at USC 8:00pm Come home and finish docs for tomorrow’s meeting… Continue reading My Day
Of Disney Weddings
Well my brother is married, I’m the only one home (all are still at the disneyland hotel) and I am downloading the 165 photos my friend took on my rebel to every mac in the house (three) LOL Matt and Roslynn were married in the Rose Garden at the Disneyland Hotel last night, amidst trumpeters,… Continue reading Of Disney Weddings
Whoot!
TK4 was funded! Now begins the rest of the journey, completing TK4 stage 1 and 2! TK4 will be an open source rich media content creation tool written in Smalltalk/Squeak. This project represents many new avenues of learning for me and has brought back the excitement I once had in software while doing more realtime… Continue reading Whoot!
Apple announces Airport Express with Java
whoa! June 8, 2004 – Cupertino: Hot off the heels of the buzz generated by the Airport Express, Apple Computer, Inc. has announced Airport Express with Java. The AXJ will incorporate the same gold standard features as the original Airport Express while incorporating a gold filter, water hopper and wi-fi controlled press for brewing that… Continue reading Apple announces Airport Express with Java
AH Technology damnit Apple! lol
So I had this issue when I encode video with QuickTime (final cut, compressor, etc) that would cause the encoding to stop randomly. This has been happening for four months with Apple’s high end software. I learned that if I totally uninstalled/reinstalled DVD Studio Pro and then Final Cut Pro, leaving out the FCP install… Continue reading AH Technology damnit Apple! lol