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opmlMicrosoft paid me $144 to search
Well, not yet, but the money’s coming in less than 60 days. As David Pogue has reported, Microsoft really wants you to use its search engine: Until the end of the year, you’ll get points every time you use Microsoft’s Live.com service. Pile...
The MAKE Magazine table at The Last HOPE
I attended The Last HOPE recently and worked the MAKE table there. It was tremendous fun; we had all sorts of kits and books and magazines and t-shirts for sale, and a lot of interesting folks came by with interesting questions and ideas. Video &#...
Providence Geek Dinner-tomorrow, June 18
This is going to be good! BatchBlue is returning to give us a progress report on how much cooler they’ve become since they last presented at a geek dinner! Details and RSVP. See you all there!
You’ve got Internet meme in my RL
CC-licensed Lolrus image from Pete Mandik’s photostream on flickr Life here in southern RI is not quite as boring as I let on. A few weeks (or was it months?) ago, a story broke about a woman who was discovered in a sorority on campus, and i...
Overriding EEE PC’s drive letter assignment for USB devices
When you plug a USB device into the EEE PC, it makes it look like it has a Windows drive letter by mounting it on something like /media/D: This is fine for a lot of stuff, but I have a USB drive I want to put a VirtualBox virtual machine on, and I...
Tom Sgouros demos my Arduino buddies at Maker Faire
Inspired by SocialBomb, a few of us AS220 geeks have started working on a similar project: Arduinos that pair off and get happier the closer they are together. The first iteration of this is the Arduino Buddies, but eventually, we’ll have th...
You Sure Want to Be in Providence
When you read an article like this one, and when you’re part of a community that has an answer to the question, it’s hard to stay quiet. Joey deVilla gave Toronto a shout-out in his blog (and he has an awesome graphic to go along with ...
Pondering the stack
I’ve got a lot of interesting stuff queued up, but I lack the time to play around with it. But I promise to get to them soon and blog/twitter/flickr/blip.tv all about them: Chemistry set I’ve been helping out with the editorial work o...
Providence Geek Dinner Wednesday March 19th
This geek dinner is going to be a lot of fun. It’s got mobile technology, a company who uses my favorite phone in their demo videos, what more could you ask for? Oh yeah, geeks, beer, and tacos. Come out and see Gypsii talk about their mobil...
Mysterious creatures found in Antarctica
MSNBC reports: “They had fins in various places, they had funny dangly bits around their mouths,” Riddle told reporters. “They were all bottom dwellers so they were all evolved in different ways to live down on the sea bed in the...
Providence Geek Dinner this Wednesday February 20th
Photo Credit: Bret Ancowitz, M.D. There’s another Providence Geek dinner coming up this week; don’t miss it!: Andrew Schiller, founder of Woonsocket-based Location Inc./NeighborhoodScout.com, a nationwide neighborhood search engine f...
What is this AS220 place, anyhow? (and how you can help)
Cross-posted from the Providence Geeks blog One of the questions I get at Geek Dinners is to explain what AS220 is all about. Here’s a little background on AS220, how it crisscrosses with Providence Geeks, and how you can help AS220 grow (di...
December 2007 Providence Geek Dinner
Don’t miss this month’s Providence Geek Dinner (this Wednesday!); In the spirit of the holiday season and giving back to the community, Providence Geeks is a proud sponsor of Rhode Island’s 2008 FIRST FTC Robotics Challenge. The progra...
A hard drive crash with a happy ending
Yesterday afternoon, I returned to my desk to find my Mac frozen. When I rebooted, the hard drive started making horrible noises, so there was no question that my 200GB Hitachi drive had crapped out. Fortunately, Time Machine had my back, and the ...
Arduino-powered pumpkin
I was planning to make a MiniPOV Cylon Jack-O-Lantern, but I remembered I didn’t have a MiniPOV at home. I placed an order for one to remedy this, but I figured the order wouldn’t get here in time for Halloween, so I whipped something ...