Guns, Cars, and Tech

Category: Tech

  • Housekeeping stuff

    My server doesn’t seem to want to keep time. It was off by about 20 minutes yesterday when I manually synced with pool.ntp.org. This morning it was off by 5 hours. Meh.

    I’ve added a Resources page and a Contact page. The Resources page will contain stuff I use to research, and so far I’ve got links to the Lexis-Nexis version of Tennessee Code Annotated and the TN General Assembly page. I’ve got links somewhere that provide direct camera feeds rather than having to use the stupid Silverlight stuff on the TGA video page.

    I added some Social Media stuff to the bottom of posts. Just felt like the thing to do.

    Also, if you know of a good place to get header graphics, lemme know in the comments.

  • A little less creepy

    It’s still creepy that they do it, but I just noticed that Facebook is collapsing threads for politicians other than The One.

    I feel better. Glad my suspicions of an in-kind donation were unfounded.

  • Well that’s neat

    I just accidentally discovered that Windows Key + number launches “the program pinned to the taskbar in the position indicated by the number. If the program is already running, switch to that program.”

    I use Alt+Tab, Win+D, Win+E, and Win+L daily. I’ll need to re-arrange my taskbar add this to my list.

    More keyboard shortcuts here

  • Guess they decided they DID need to play

    Google has announced that it will buy Motorola’s cell phone division for $12.5 billion.

    Most people don’t know this, but over the last few months there has been a bit of a war going on between the largest tech companies in the world. Patents are the weapons*, and Google didn’t have any. Now they have 17,000 of them.

    *Basically this was mutually assured destruction. Company A has 200 patents, and Company B has 300 patents. Both A & B make phones that have features that infringe on on or more of the other’s patents. Instead of suing each other out of existence, A & B just decide to engage in reciprocity. This worked well until Android became successful and started eating in to Apple’s marketshare. Apple fired the first shots at Samsung earlier this year and it’s been crazy ever since.

  • New digs

    After posting for a little over two years at Walls of the City, I’ve decided to open up my own little shop.

    I want to publicly thank Linoge for allowing me to guest post over there. Through my association with him I’ve gotten to do a bunch of cool stuff and meet some good people.

    I’ll be forever grateful to him for getting me started in all this.

    Over here on this new site, I’m going to be talking about some other things as well. Yes, you’ll still get guns and libertarian-ish politics, but I’m also going to be doing more geeky stuff. The site title comes from an observation that my wife made several years ago. She noted that anytime two guys get together, they will talk about guns, cars, or computers. Maybe all three. I broadened “computers” to “tech” because a lot of the things I’ll be talking about don’t really involve computers–like phones and DIY CNC machines.

    Posting tempo will probably be light at first, but go ahead and add me to your RSS Reader! If you decide to keep up with the full site, please note that I’ll be doing theme and layout changes pretty regularly until I get a handle on this.