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Miami to Seattle Day 3: Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial

TweetI’ve been told that much of my photos and tweeting while on the road has been about food. It’s true. I am very passionate about food. I spent the majority of my childhood eating only what my mom made as we didn’t have money to go out, and the fact that my family is a [...]

The Difference Between Geeks and Nerds

TweetFinally, someone who knows the proper definition and difference between a geek and a nerd. Please make a note for future reference.

An Experiment With Google Wave – Crowd Sourcing Class Notes – CCNA: Week 1

Tweet I just started taking my CCNA class on Monday and wanted to try something a bit different. Me and my classmates have started to crowd source notes. I tried this once, a long time ago with OneNote 2003 and had limited success. Only a few people had OneNote at the time and while OneNote [...]

Flashback: Miami Beach by Garland Jeffreys

Tweet Miami Beach was recorded in 1980 in London with the great Linton Kwesi Johnson as the narrator, reading the news from the Miami Herald. Garland Jeffreys went to the UK to record this one and worked with the great dubmaster Dennis Bovell and his musicians. They achieved the exact result we wanted. Linton read [...]

Concept Electronic Magazine Reader

TweetEvery so often a concept comes out that makes you think, “This is what the future will be.” Well here is another one of this, this time from Bonnier R&D titled Mag+. It’s pretty much a super charged giant iPhone for magazines. Now we just need to find a way to increase people’s desire to [...]

Global Agenda

TweetHoly Crap! Where the hell has the press on this been? [Official Site] Video Games | Global Agenda | Developer Preview XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii They even have a good sense of humor.

Fox’s Sherron Inn

Tweet Last Wednesday I headed to Fox’s to meet Maria from Sex on the Beach because I have sinned. It may shock you to know, but I am a horrible local. I’ve never been to Jimbo’s, I only went to PS14 once, never been to Vagabond, never been on an air-boat ride, have no idea [...]

Jumping in.

TweetI’m not a programmer. I’ve never been good at it. I can say though I’ve been decent at hacking other people’s code but that’s a cop out. Anyone can really do that. Doesn’t matter what it is, I’ve always been bad at programming. I can only do basic HTML. Don’t even ask about my Java [...]

Power outlet with USB charging ports

Tweet YES! Finally someone knows the pain every gadget laden geek has to go through. I shouldn’t have to carry an AC adapter for every gadget I take. Every single airport, train station, subway, airplane should have one of these. Here’s hoping this comes available in USB 3.0 flavors too. $10 from FastMac. via Make

Verizon Pays $2 Million For Poor Florida Service, or more reason why we need broadband competition.

Tweet Image via Wikipedia Verizon Pays $2 Million For Poor Florida Service Years of complaints ‘resolved’ by $2 bill credits… 09:00AM Wednesday Nov 11 2009 by Karl Bode tags: business · Verizon Online DSL While Verizon gets a lot of warranted attention for investing heavily in fiber to the home, the last few years have [...]

Florida places four cities with the most Call of Duty pre-orders.

TweetSome background information for you. Amazon.com’s Call of Duty-est Town in America promotion features the towns that have the highest percentage of Release-Date Delivery COD:MW2 pre-orders. To calculate, we are using the most recent U.S. Census data for U.S. towns and cities with a population of more than 5,000 people, that have ordered enough copies for two [...]

The distant future of…

Tweet[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvrva8NoMLM&feature=player_embedded] Rick over at South Florida Daily Blog posted a viral video about the ROLLTOP and asked if this is the future of laptops. His post got me wondering about the future of everything. It reminds me of how a typical conversation with a stranger turns to various technologies just because that’s how we are [...]

New smart grid funding and a follow up.

TweetYesterday I wrote about the new FPL PV solar plant in Arcadia, FL, so a few new ideas and comments popped up in my head. Here are choice quotes from the St. Pete Times and what the Herald printed. Standing in rural Florida amid 180 acres of solar panels, President Barack Obama on Tuesday announced [...]

Cuba: Waiting For A Revolution

TweetThere are few news sources that I trust. Current TV‘s Vanguard division is one of them. Vanguard Correspondent Adrian Baschuk travels to the last remaining Communist state in the Western Hemisphere. How hard is life there and is there any possibility of regime change? There is an entire page dedicated to the episode and any [...]

Free Digital & Rapid Prototyping Event in South Florida

Tweet WB Engineering, a 3D Printing and Digital Prototyping company is going to be having a prototyping event at two locations in South Florida. At this free, interactive event, you’ll see the difference and understand why rapid and digital prototyping is the best ever for expediting product designs and taking them to market. Learn tips [...]

Tropico 3 and Windows 7 Incompatibility

Tweet Image via CrunchBase Pay attention early adopters and beta testers. If you plan on switching out to Windows 7 or already use Windows 7 like I do, you may have notice some issues with several games. Some, like Team Fortress 2 by Valve Software have noticeably worse performance than on Windows XP. We can [...]

How do you listen to your music?

Tweet Image via Wikipedia As a typhoon blows through Miami, I sit here in the dark, listening to Frédéric Chopin’s Ballade No 1 in g minor (Op 23) perfermed by Donald Betts, while ripping the new Beatles remastered release. My options for ripping music is as wide as the selection of music genres. Sure I [...]

Shadow Complex [XBLA]

Title: Shadow Complex

Developer: Chair Entertainment, who made Undertow, the game Microsoft gave out for free and still doesn’t have anyone playing it.

Publisher: Microsoft Game Studios, creators of the best application ever made – Microsoft Bob.

Release Date: August 19, 2009

Platforms: Xbox Live Arcade, currently expected to cost 1200 points.

The Pitch: It’s a side-scrolling Metroidvania game, but in a futuristic setting (based on an Orson Scott Card novel) and with extremely detailed HD graphics.

Why You Should Be Excited: See above. It’s the type of genre you love but usually is only available on the DS nowadays. Plus, it looked so impressive, Epic Games bought the company out.

Why You Should Be Concerned: Well, if Cliffy B. thinks it’s awesome, it’s probably got more awful baditude then we’re currently led to believe. Also, it had hints of being not ready for prime time during E3.

History lesson you didn't know: The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale.

TweetAs someone who was born in the mid-1980′s, this is something I’ve never heard about in school. I had no idea that Cuba was involved in a war with South Africa. The two things just don’t mix in my mind. I grew up with a post-Soviet Union, Cuba that has issues even feeding it’s own [...]

The Novint Falcon

TweetNothing excites geeks more than new toys. The Novint Falcon is right up there with the Microsoft Surface table in terms of “Why didn’t I think of this?” The Falcon works by replacing your mouse and joystick with a device that can interpret your movement, and translate it to the game. The really awesome part [...]