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M dot - Mobile phone friendly websites

Posted April 26th @ 9:37 am by caleb

One of the main features of the iPhone is its built in browser that is ready to surf real websites, not cut down versions designed for mobile phones. From the Apple marketing material:
“iPhone lets you see web pages the way they were designed to be seen”
However, the popularity of the iPhone has led to […]

Starting Early

Posted August 25th @ 8:16 pm by caleb

I heard something downstairs tonight and figured that Reagan couldn’t sleep because she was thinking of the upcoming school year. I look to my left and I see that Reagan is still fast asleep. “Oh well, it was probably nothing”, I convince myself. Minutes later I hear the distinct sound of a […]

lighttpd or Apache + lighttpd?

Posted May 28th @ 10:05 pm by caleb

I was reading a little bit about Apache optimization tonight and an article suggested offloading all image requests to a lighttpd server via mod_proxy. On the surface it made a lot of sense because a sysadmin can throw mod_proxy and lighttpd up without needing to notify web developers or change site content. However, […]

Spend my money

Posted December 4th @ 10:17 am by caleb

Last week I entered a drawing and won a $100 gift certificate to kleargear.com. The question is, what should I get? Help me spend my money.

Blog Comment Spam

Posted September 10th @ 8:20 am by caleb

Before I switched to WordPress I was constantly dealing with comment spam. To fight it off I wrote my own scripts to blacklist words and URLs. It worked okay but required that I add words to the list every day. Spam has always been a moving target. Since I’ve used WordPress I haven’t had any […]

My Video Fad

Posted April 14th @ 10:52 am by caleb

Public Service Annoucement: Do not forward emails with video files attached. Upload them then share the links. The admin of your mail server will delay slashing your tires until he realizes that your password is password.

Total Eclipse of the Heart
Easter Bunny
If Microsoft had designed the Ipod
Kick to the face
Owned
Juggle

It’s a video world

Posted March 15th @ 10:47 pm by caleb

Playing around with Dad’s video camera last week has me interested in digital video more than ever. I was playing around a bit on YouTube and thought I should share a few links.

Large hornet crawls on a persons hand
Top 10 baseball fights
Randy Johnson destroys a bird
Ipod nano running Linux and playing Super Mario Brothers
Levi Smith […]

Fun with jumping pixels

Posted November 9th @ 4:50 pm by caleb

I can’t tell you how excited I am about Google Video. Media search and playback without giving a rip about the codec. As a Linux user I’m very grateful.
My favorite finds:

Insane soccer dribble. Lets get this guy on TV to replace some no-talent reality show.
Backstreet Boys mockery. Yao Ming should be […]

Linucon - Linux = con

Posted October 3rd @ 5:23 pm by caleb

I had this big commentary about this years Linucon event which completed yesterday in Austin. Slade beat me to it. He sums up my feeling quite well.
Since I’m not a scifi guy my only interest was in the Linux sessions. I shouldn’t complain much. Rather, I should just say that this conference is […]

Monopod

Posted August 23rd @ 7:47 pm by caleb

A few weeks ago I decided to figure out what this whole podcasting thing is. I’ve heard the term used a lot and I incorrectly assumed that it was just an iPod thing.
Follow the link about if you want all the details. Basically a podcast is a way to automatically download audio broadcasts that […]

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