Back when I was commuting to the city every day, I purchased a crock pot. The idea of having a meal ready to eat when I got home from work was very appealing. Ironically, it wasn’t until I became unemployed that I was able to really start taking full advantage of the pot as a cooking tool. Let me tell you, crock pot and slow cooker recipes seem deceptively simple, but there are actually a lot of things you should know before trying to cook with the pot. Continue reading
People like to have things. Think about all the things you own. Go look through your closets and in your drawers. How many things in there will you honestly never use again? If you’ve got a lot of free space, there’s no reason to get rid of them, but if you’re like me, the objects are worth less than the space they take up. With the bad economy, more people are trying to sell this crap. Continue reading
It’s been a long time since I’ve done anything with this blog. For a long time now, I’ve been expressing myself through other mediums like podcasting, forums, and micro-blogging. That doesn’t leave a whole lot left for a blog. Continue reading
I had a little trouble today trying to get a favicon for my django site. I found some solutions online, but they assumed that you were serving your media statically through your apache server. I’m serving all my static files through Amazon S3, so those techniques didn’t work for me. Here’s how I did it instead.
A lot of people are very confused when it comes to cellphone wireless acronyms. They hear things like 3g or EV-DO, and they don’t know what to make of them. Even if they try to read the Wikipedia, it’s far too complicated and technical. I decided I would make this little layman’s guide to cellphone acronyms. I’m not going to make sure everything is perfectly technically accurate. I’m only going to tell you what the average person needs to know about the terms. I’m mostly going to be discussing this from a US perspective, because that’s what I know.
Here’s just a quick bit about open source on the iPhone. We all know that the iPhone development kit agreement prevents developers from making open source iPhone applications. This means that every iPhone application has to be developed by a company, or individual. You can’t have a team of people around the world collaborate openly to make an amazing iPhone application.
As I said in my previous post, I am very pleased with my iPhone 3g purchase. It’s not perfect, but I knew the pros and cons going in. Overall the experience is what I expected it to be. However, there is one major flaw in the phone that I did not anticipate. The native calendar application is completely incapable of synchronizing with Google Calendar.
