Monthly Archives: October 2007

Unfortunate development for local DSL providers

It’s surprising that this story hasn’t received more coverage – I just heard about it today on this week’s episode of TWiT. Apparently the local DSL providers are going to lose quite a bit of the leverage they’ve enjoyed with the major telcos. This is sure to have an impact on a lot of the [...]
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Great Lifehacker post on free video utilities

This has already been dugg (so you may have already seen it) but Lifehacker has a great post with their top 10 list of freeware / OSS video utilities. This list includes some utilities you can use to convert videos for playback on your ipod. Any experience with any of these? Post a comment with [...]
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Pumpkins!

DSC_3230 Originally uploaded by nacuff I just posted a new photo set to Flickr. These are some shots of the fall harvest in central California. Enjoy! (if you see any you like send me an email and I’ll send the full-rez pic)
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Predicting the Future (or our inability to do so)

Interesting series of articles on Forbes.com about predicting the future. You should read the article by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of one of the more interesting books I’ve read recently: The Black Swan.
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CVS video camera hack completed!

UPDATE: I posted an update that you might want to check out. The update was written a year after this original post and has some thoughts on the project after using the camera. I got a CVS one-time-use video camera for my birthday a couple of weeks ago. They make for a fun hardware hacking [...]
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LA commute photos

New pics posted to give you non-west-coast folks a sampling of the morning traffic joy in LA.
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Long Beach Marathon pics

Some new pics of the 2007 Long Beach Marathon. It was held yesterday and follows part of the beach path just down the block from our house. http://www.flickr.com/photos/nacuff/sets/72157602434624231/
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New Flickr pics posted

I just uploaded a new set of pics to Flickr. These are shots of the Port of Long Beach that were taken from the water this past August.
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