Adventures in stupid technology
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Diy noise cancelling headphones
This post will show you how to turn an old broken set of headphones into some pretty impressive passive noise canceling headphones for about $30 bucks. Passive noise canceling doesn’t use the latest Bose quiet comfort electronics…it accomplishes noise reduction the old fashioned way…by blocking it. I was lucky enough to pick up a used…
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XML driven calendar
Recently I’ve been playing around with various Calendar scripts. There’s Adam Shaw’s Full-calendar and Ross Haney’s GCE plugin for WordPress. Either of these work work great with a Google Calendar events feed, but what if you’ve got multiple XML files, each of which represent a single event? Well to handle that scenario I had to…
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Bypass a sysadmin with a trial of Windows Intune
As far as your online security is concerned, there are few things worse than an unpatched windows computer. So what can you to do if your company been locked down your systems ability to get critical windows updates and your systems administrator is too busy to patch computers regularly with WSUS or Systems Center? Well,…
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Create a functional web calendar in 5 minutes
If you have events to share with the world, you’ll need a way to them onto your website. A simple way to do this would be to create a page containing a list of events which you update every month. That’s not very functional and it doesn’t convey the date of an event very well.…
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Free 5gigs of cloud storage
Last week I managed to max out my free 2gb of cloud storage at Dropbox. That got me thinking…should I bite the bullet and sift through 2GB of accumulated crap to clear some space OR should I look for an alternative to continue my reckless cloud based file storage behavior? After looking around a bit,…
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Intel G43/G45 video driver issues
I bought an Acer Z5600 year ago and it’s been working pretty well for playing games and browsing the web. Then in August 2010 an important Windows update for systems with the Intel G43/G45 Chipset broke my display driver. Since the update it has been impossible to scale the display resolution to anything but the…
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Adobe Ideas
Michelle got an iPad for Christmas and it’s mostly been used for watching movies and playing games. In fact, until I discovered the Adobe Ideas App a few months ago, I never understood all the iPad hype. Sure, it could browse the web and send emails, but without a tactile keyboard or a real browser…
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March madness basketball schedule
Thanks to the super awesome Google Calendar Events plugin for WordPress by Ross Hanney, creating a this beautiful NCAA basketball game schedule took only five minutes. Beyond displaying game info, this it also demonstrates how easy it can be to display pubic Google calendar events with your own CSS flair in WordPress:
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XML well-formedness checking in TextMate
I’ve been working with a lot of XML lately and finding out where your document is not well-formed can be a hassle. Imagine having to find an improperly typed closing node in a ten thousand line XML file with thousands of nodes. Talk about your needle and haystack type of situation, right? Well I two…