Mar - 20th
Shoehorning a digicam into a Leica M
Posted at 6:30 pm | Filed Under art, digital, retro tech, technology
Leica has gone nouveau-retro with the digital Leica M series. Other companies, like Vivitar, have come out with digital cameras featuring current tech, but designs reminiscent of retro rangefinder cameras. This retro camera beats them all. The maker shoehorned a Sony DSC-WX1 digital camera into a Leica (or, more accurately, what appears to be a [...]
Apr - 22nd
LOMO at night
Posted at 7:16 am | Filed Under art, film, lomo, technology
45 second exposure, LOMO LC-A, handheld. Fuji 100 speed film. Possibly Related Posts: Handlebar ABCDEFG tiny little box II Chairs/Fields Closed Doors
Dec - 5th
Buddha Machine
Posted at 12:34 am | Filed Under journal, technology
My Buddha Machine arrived yesterday. I opened the shipping container to find a box roughly the size of a deck of playing cards. The outside is festooned with the FM3 logo and chinese lettering. The box opens to reveal a retro-looking plastic slab resembling a 1970′s transistor radio. It’s the brainchild of FM3 (aka Christiaan [...]
Nov - 11th
SwitchProxy update – google posterity post
Posted at 5:35 pm | Filed Under technology
I swear by SwitchProxy for Firefox. I use proxies to test our work environment and route web traffic through a SSH tunnel when I’m on an untrusted wireless network. Unfortunately, SwitchProxy hasn’t been updated for some time – it doesn’t work on newer versions of Firefox. I read this post which talked about tweaking .xpi [...]
Sep - 22nd
Linked networks
Posted at 3:29 pm | Filed Under journal, technology
Ok, so I post to WordPress. WordPress posts an update to Twitter via Twitter tools and to Livejournal. LJ gets the whole post with comments redirected to WordPress. Twitter posts a shortened URL to the blog post. Twitter gets slurped once a day into LoudTwitter, which also posts to LJ. And, Facebook also gets updated [...]
Aug - 12th
Settling in with my data
Posted at 4:32 pm | Filed Under technology
I’ve continued on my project to bring data back into my control and to stop sites from leveraging my information to gather my friend’s data. (Want to see Kurt’s Flickr pix? Just register on Yahoo!) I installed Gallery on my web site and found a great script for exporting photos from Flickr to Gallery. Once [...]
Aug - 5th
When Google owns you
Posted at 6:42 pm | Filed Under technology
http://www.chrisbrogan.com/when-google-owns-you/ Nick Saber isn’t happy now. Monday afternoon, after lunch, Nick came back from lunch to find out that he couldn’t get into his Gmail account. Further, he couldn’t get into anything that Google made (beside search) where his account credentials once worked. When attempting to log in, Nick got a single line message: Sorry, [...]
Aug - 3rd
TeraTerm is back
Posted at 10:16 pm | Filed Under technology
I used to swear by TeraTerm, back in the days when I still ran Telnet daemons. I seem to recall a SSHv1 add-on, but it fell by the wayside, to be replaced by Secure CRT, then by PuTTY, which I swear by. It took a long time to get used to leftclick/rightclick for pasting, but [...]
Jul - 26th
Pulling data back
Posted at 9:48 pm | Filed Under site news, technology
People have data sitting on multiple social networks, search engines indexing their mail and serving up ads based on private content, and photos shared around the world on hosting sites. Each one of them has their own privacy policy, and each one requires you to have some level of trust that they’re going to protect [...]
Jun - 19th
More google bait
Posted at 3:10 pm | Filed Under technology
When setting a SOCKS5 proxy for Firefox, go to about:config and set network.proxy.socks_remote_dns to TRUE. This will force DNS entries through the proxy to the remote end and eliminate DNS leakage to the local DNS server. Possibly Related Posts: Shoehorning a digicam into a Leica M LOMO at night Buddha Machine SwitchProxy update – google [...]
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