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February 28, 2006

New Apple products announced

by @ 1:14 pm. Filed under Apple

New Apple logo
Sadly, there is no Mac Mini with built-in DVR funtionality, but the new Mini based on the Intel chips is now available. Also announced were some no-so-interesting iPod accessories.
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February 26, 2006

Video of the Mantis shrimp in a one cubic foot micro-reef

by @ 1:49 pm. Filed under Fun Stuff

One cubic foot micro reef
Continuing on a similar thread from my recent Mantis shrimp post, here is a video of a Mantis shrimp, which is cool enough, but also living in a super-small 1 cubic foot tank micro reef.
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February 25, 2006

A little Florida dreaming

by @ 6:33 pm. Filed under Florida

Florida sunset seen from resort
As I'm sitting here working on the site, about the turn-on the electric heater to fight-off the nightly Colorado winter chill, I thought I'd browse through some photos I took on my last trip to Florida.
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February 24, 2006

Free app lets you bind keys to start and focus programs

by @ 8:50 pm. Filed under Software, Windows

qliner keyboard graphic
Windows only, sorry. It seems that very few people even know about the Windows-E combination to start an Explorer instance. Well, this open-source freeware lets you assign any program to any Windows-key combination press.
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February 22, 2006

Floating houses - a solution to flooding?

by @ 8:29 pm. Filed under Technology

Flooded house
An inventor in Colorado has come-up with a neat idea to create a house which can float-up with flood waters.
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Mantis shrimp - might not like living in your aquarium

by @ 12:40 pm. Filed under Weird Stuff

Mantis shrimp eyes
This is one sea creature that will do something about being contained in a aquarium if they don't like it!
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February 19, 2006

Homebrew microcontroller based hard drive LED bar graph

by @ 6:51 pm. Filed under Electronics, Hardware

Faceplate
This is a PIC microcontroller project I did some time ago which turns my computer's hard drive LED into a more interesting 10 LED bargraph display.
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February 17, 2006

Photo documentary of a Tivo Series 1 drive upgrade

by @ 7:24 pm. Filed under Hardware, Technology

Tivo logo
These photos document the hard drive upgrade I did to my factory-dual-drive Series 1 Tivo.
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February 15, 2006

Olympics of another kind: lock picking

by @ 8:52 pm. Filed under Fun Stuff

Padlock
Are you not into traditional sports? Also not into extreme sports? Perhaps something like lock-picking is more your style.
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February 14, 2006

Photos of a Volvo XC90 built of Legos in Vail

by @ 9:03 pm. Filed under Fun Stuff

Lego Volvo left
Here are a few photos of a Lego Volvo XC90 I took in Vail.
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