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Getting MAMP 1.9 to work with Image Magick, imagick.so and other flora
It was a full eight hours of hair pulling. For some reason, all the tutorials that can be found on getting MAMP to work with Image Magick in Snow Leopard are incomplete, miss out information, or dated. Or all of them. They are excellent posts, but I could not get imagick.so to be loaded as [...]
So Dave Winer is tolerant and open-minded…not
[Update] After a tweet from @GadgetDon I thought I’d try to fix things, and thus deleted a couple of tweets that could have been offensive, and removed this post, with the thought of emailing Dave to ask what offended him so much. However, during the few hours since, I have been reading and researching Dave [...]
My PCB business card flashes its LEDs!
Finally, I received the new PCBs from the manufacturer, after the first batch were found to be defective on track continuity (possibly due to too aggressive etching). This is a short video showing how the first one I assembled and programmed works:
Sagem’s SIMFi – not so fast
There have been a ton of posts around Sagem Orga’s SIMFi, presented at the Mobile World Congress. In essence it claims to add WiFi circuitry and intelligence to a standard SIM card. Supposedly, it then creates a WiFi mini-hotspot that can be used by nearby devices to share the 3G connection on the phone bearing [...]
At the Mobile World Congress today
If you want to meet up, I will be at the Mobile World Congress today, and probably on Thursday & Friday too. You can ping me on Twitter or leave a comment. I’ll be bringing my new business card along, I guarantee you won’t get another one like it from anyone at the Congress! This [...]
Twitter as a support channel works better than email
It’s amazing that three suggestions or bug reports I’ve had about three different companies have been quickly and satisfactorily solved, after tweeting about them. In the past, I’ve tried to email companies before, with much worse results. Usually, things didn’t move until an email to the CEO was sent. It’s nice that companies are listening [...]
Welcome to my personal blog!
I decided that the firehouse blog was getting too confusing to use as a personal blog, and thus I have decided to leave it for firefighting-related posts, and concentrate on writing a personal blog here. I may on occasions post stuff related to firefighting, but it will be very infrequently. If you need to get [...]
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