Archive for August 2008

Installed Search Excerpt and Search Reloaded

To make search results on my blog prettier and more useful, I have installed 2 plugins and added a search.php to my theme. The two plugins are Search Excerpt and Search Reloaded.

All this was at the (very good) suggestion of this post.

Hayes Smartmodem Optima 9600

When I was a kid, this was one of the most “oo ahh”-able things in the world. They cost like $600. Now they have them at Weird Stuff for… essentially… free. It was a hoot holding one.

Fully Legal AR-15 in California: Part 2

This is a followup to my first posting of Fully Legal AR-15 in California. It’s gotten so many comments that it’s hard to sort through them.

Please make followup comments here. And don’t forget to read the original post!

Thank you.

Get a $40 coupon for a DTV converter box

I saw a converter box at Radio Shack yesterday for $60. With the $40 coupon, switching to digital will be easy.

https://www.dtv2009.gov/

See some reviews of converter boxes

Always-on Camera

I want my always-on camera, my black box flight recorder.

The technology is available to inexpensively produce a small device that records audio and video all day on it’s own battery power. This would be a boon to holding people accountable for what they say and do.

The device would have just 1 button on it. The user would push this button and speak to make a voice-note of a notable event that just happened. Once a day, the user plugs it in to charge and upload the last 24 hours of audio & video recording.

Imagine having this device the next time…

  • you are in a car accident
  • someone gives you directions to an address
  • you are assaulted
  • you are in a he-said/she-said discussion

It’s really a very simple device. Now if someone would just manufacture it. And that someone could be you!