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By brian, on October 18th, 2005 I went to the misnamed “SuperMall” in Auburn, WA last night with my girlfriend to buy a gift for her friend and some supplies for us.
Of course, the night before, my girlfriend and I were looking at T-Mobile’s plans and the Nokia 6101 online. She needed a flip phone (as much as I personally hate their form factor) because she is somewhat hard on them and needed to better protect the keypad.
So as we’re walking by a store, one of the sales reps at a T-Mobile kiosk asks us “What service provider are you with?”. Taken in by my hatred towards Cingular, I tell him, “I’m with Cingular, …
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By brian, on October 14th, 2005 While we’re ranting about sucky things on this blog, such as movies, cheap parts, wireless routers, and inconsiderate neighbors, I’m going to rant on how much Cingular sucks!
The only reason I broke my contract with Verizon Wireless was because I had my eye on the Nokia 6230, which is only offered in the US by Cingular. I was also dissatisfied with Verizon due to their lack of good, non-crippled phones.
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By erich, on October 10th, 2005 Using cheap PIR motion sensors attached to a 1-wire network to create a security system …
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By erich, on October 4th, 2005 So… I’m on vacation in Canada… What do I do? …
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By erich, on September 29th, 2005 As it turns out, that HDTV of mine will tune to the “on-demand” channels of Comcast. It’s pretty funny seeing what other people are watching. …
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By brian, on September 27th, 2005 11h.net originated from the idea of creating a new wireless networking protocol, entitled eight-oh-two.11H. Essentially, the protocol would address known security exploits in the current “Wi-Fi” and “WEP” standards and allow:
* User-customizable frequency range from 900MHz to 30GHz * Efficient error checking with minimal overhead * Integrated VPN Support
Unfortunately, the Technical Advisory Committee at our University deemed this as impossible for a Senior Project and was rejected.
Since I had already registered the domain name 11h.net, we decided to call our group the 11h group. 11h later proposed, designed, created, and demonstrated our accepted Senior Project: The MagLev Elevator.
All of our senior project management, content versioning, and …
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By brian, on September 24th, 2005 The first Summer I drove from Federal Way to Phoenix for a vacation (2002), I purchased a Magellan GPS 310 handheld unit and a power/data cable from Wal-Mart with my employee discount. I had every intention of taking advantage of Wal-Mart’s liberal return policy as soon as I returned from my trip. I used the GPS receiver along with Eltima Serial Splitter for simultaneous 802.11b war driving with net stumbler and navigation with Microsoft Streets & Trips 2002. Since it worked so well for me, I decided to keep it.
Unfortunately, as of sometime in 2005, the GPS receiver started becoming unusable. Portions of the LCD screen will not appear, …
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By erich, on August 27th, 2005 Eric purchases a Hitachi UltraVision 32HDL51 – 32in LCD HDTV. …
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By erich, on July 24th, 2005 It has come to my attention that the movies that my girl friend likes, I seriously dislike. The Butterfly Effect (2004) is a perfect example – because it SUCKED and she thought it was great. What a waste. The movie – not my girl friend. …
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By erich, on June 8th, 2005 After having to deal with the unfortunate death of my MiniDisc player; I decided to give this iPod craze a try. WOW! The UI that Apple wrote couldn’t be easier! …
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