This is brilliant. It’s heartening to know that there are other people out there who can understand the involvement and appreciate the attention to detail in the process of creation.
I went to try some image labeling over at Goolge and got a really funny entry. The way it works is you are pared with another real human and you are both shown the same image. Each of you put in keywords that would relate to that image. If you both enter the same keyword you both get points and it shows you another image.
Some images have been tagged before and a keyword list will appear next to the image. Those are words that Google already knows apply so you can’t use them. If you can’t think of any new keywords you hit pass and go to the next image.
After a short time the round is called over and you get to see what keywords your partner entered for the images you were shown. It’s fun to see what other people think of when they look at an image. Apparently I’m a dumb ass, as one of my random partners left me a message in their keywords for an image.
12.01Chuck Zune Burn
More Chuck goodness
11.11HAL 9001
I’m sorry, I can’t let you do that.
The home media server project is now underway full steam. I’ve decided to name it HAL9001. I got a good deal on a 300GB SATA drive to add to the system and hit my first speed bump while trying to download an install image of Linux MCE. I don’t know if it was just a bad night for it but there were no seeders for the torrents. When I finally canceled the torrent it had been running for more than two hours and was telling me it needed another 17 days!
Fall back and punt. I hopped over to Mythbuntu and decided I would give that distro a try. I was itching to get something up and working. With our current WOW HD DVR/cable box I don’t think there is an easy way to make HAL our DVR so I’m looking to make it more of a media jukebox and home server. So it wasn’t a huge deal if I didn’t have all the LinuxMCE channel features, Myth would be a fine proof of concept.
Second roadblock, Kernel Panic! It turns out I had some bad sticks of RAM in the box and Mythbuntu wouldn’t start its installer. I yanked the bad RAM and dropped HAL down to 512mb for now. Mythbuntu installed like butter. I still have some overscan issue with the left and right sides of my screen, I loose about 75px on each side, it looks like the video signal is wider than the screen. So to try and fix this I pull down the Nvidia drivers and I still can’t seem to fix it. Grrr.
I want to be able to rip our movie collection into HAL so that all our movies are only a few clicks away. So I enabled the CSS decoder and all that jazz. No DVD playback or ripping. Damn. In poking around I tried to set our location to pull in the weather data. I tried everything from zip code, city state, city state country, even planet earth… no location found. Damn. Not looking good. I was able to get the Apple trailers plugin working…. but then I find out the system has no sound. Damn!
So now after poking at it for a while, like any good Linux experiment it no longer boots. This is always my luck. So I may end up wiping HAL and trying to get LinuxMCE again. Then as I dig deeper into LinuxMCE docs I see I need to have two network cards… WTF?
Thanks HAL. I’m glad I didn’t hook you into a home security system yet.
11.10Political Near Miss
Sure, now this shit comes out. LOL.
Price:USD$24.95 for “full body coverage”
USD$14.95 for front/screen coverage
Protection [rating:4]
Value [rating:3.5]
[rating:overall]
ZAGG | InvisibleSHIELD
Update: I got one for the wife’s iTouch and I would recommend using the round button to align the face protection. There is a 1mm bias to the right side of the screen but it looks better and feels better to have that button centered.
I love my iPod Touch, or iTouch as I like to call it. It’s not fair that people can just say ‘iPhone’ or ‘ipod’ and know what you have. The iTouch is just an iPhone without the phone and camera. Anyway, with the new toy comes the need to protect it. I love the form factor and beauty of the iTouch and I don’t want it to end up a scratched and chipped skipping stone after a year.
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10.06Flock… again
It seems like years ago but I gave Flock a try when it first came out. I wanted it to help me with blogging but after using it for a few weeks I kept going back to Firefox (May have still been called FireBird back then). Someone at work recommended it to me again and since I’m starting to get pulled into this FaceBook thing I thought I could offer Flock another try. In a few weeks I’ll have a full review. For now I can say I really like how easy it is to setup Flock to work with all your online services and social media sites and I’m starting to hate seeing the orange bar at the top of pages.
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