Awesome Video: Dad Life

30 Jun
2010

YouTube – COTM – Dad Life.

Love this!

Dropbox Makes Sharing Files Easy

4 May
2010

First there were floppy disks for transferring files from computer to computer. Then there were ZIP disks. Most recently flash memory USB thumb drives are the thing to move your files from computer to computer. Now there’s something easier.

Dropbox is a service that gives you a 2GB online storage site. Each computer you install the Dropbox utility on syncs with the online repository. The Dropbox utility also keeps all computer that use the same account synced with the latest version of your files. Anytime you turn on your computer, those files are there and ready for you to use.

Wait! It gets better. You are also able to share your files with others. Just input an email address and Dropbox will make those files available to that person. They don’t have to be Dropbox users themselves. The files are available to them on the Dropbox.com website. They will have to join dropbox to access the files, but then they get the benefit of the service if they choose to install it on their system.

Wait! Again! There’s more. You now have a personal web server with Dropbox. There is a public folder that you can share files from. Simply copy the files to the Public folder and then copy the public link and share it with the world. The Public folder will not execute server code, though you could use Javascript along with HTML and CSS to create a nice little site.

There’s even more to the service. And the best part of all this is the price. It’s free for the 2GB service. If you’d like to have more storage then you can upgrade to one of their pay tiers for 50GB or 100GB.

Ze Frank Chillout Song

4 May
2010

If one of your Luddite friends ever asks you what so damn amazing about the Internet, point them to Ze Frank’s site.  Below you’ll find a song that Ze created when a reader/view of his site wrote him. She was looking for a “Song for when you’re overwhelmed”.

Disabling Verizon Redirects

7 Apr
2010

A customer called me up recently and said she’d had a power outage and her Internet didn’t work any more.  This particular customer is hearing impaired and has a telephone that will show her captions as the person she’s talking to is speaking.  It works by way of an Internet connection.  She needed help right away.

When I got there, she explained that she had been on the phone with Verizon for something like 4 hours that day and finally called me.  Why she didn’t call right away, I don’t know.  Anyway, I ran through my battery of tests and everything seemed to be configured correctly, Netgear router, Westell 6100 modem and Windows XP were communicating correctly.  I could ping my office computers by IP address, but when I used pinged them using the domain name I would get some other IP address  And, when I tried to get on a web site I would be redirected to Verizon to “authenticate”.  Verizon had hijacked the connection.

I exhausted what I could do.  Nothing was wrong.  I called Verizon and got a tech on the phone.  He started to run through his spiel and I cut him off and told him what problem I was having in terms that he knew, that I knew what, what I was doing.  He then immediately asked me to log in to the modem and type in this URL:

http://192.168.1.1/verizon/redirect.htm

I did that and was greeted with a warning that this was a “Verizon Only” page and that I had to be authorized to access it.  Also on the page was a single button that said “Disable”.  The tech asked me to click on that button and the connectivity was restored.

Apparently when the power goes out on the modem for a long enough time, the bit on this redirect is switched back to deny access until authenticated.  The tech that my customer didn’t get this during her four hour ordeal with the previous Verizon tech.  She is certainly capable of typing in a URL, but the previous tech had her install all the Verizon crap like toolbars  in Firefox and IE during the troubleshooting process.  Complete unnecessary and the first thing I uninstalled when I got there.

Why post this?  I had not come across this particular problem before so it’s mostly for a reminder to me.  But also, to save you time and money.  If you have Verizon Internet service and have a power outage and suddenly find yourself locked out of the Internet, give the above URL a visit and save yourself a couple hours of headaches.

SBMC: Love this stuff

22 Mar
2010

If you aren’t a reader of Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, you should be.

I Had A Skate Bike

11 Mar
2010

Who had one of these? No one?

I was reminded today of the Max Skate Bike. My dad came home from work with one of these one day. Apparently someone was riding one of these down in Belmont Shore where his barber shop was located. They probably sold them at Jones Bicycle, which is why that day he came home with it.

It was at a time that I was looking to get an upgrade on my regular BMX style bike, rather than something new and weird. Looking back, it was weird, but it was really fun as well. I’d like one right now to scoot around the neighborhood, down to the corner mailbox or follow the little one around the block on their bikes rather than getting my own bike out for just that small bit of riding.

Enjoy the 80′s, day glow nightmare that is the Max Skate Bike commercial.

YouTube – Max Skate Bike.

Do You Chat Roulette?

1 Mar
2010

I recently subscribed to a tumblog called CHATROULOLZ.  It’s posting from a web site called Chat Roulette.  Basically you setup your web cam and then random strangers are shown your cam at the same time you are shown theirs.  If the the chatters find each other interesting then you chat, otherwise you click “Next”.  And according to the movie below, if you’re a guy, most of the chatters will click “Next” and you see someone new.  That’s called being “Next-ed”.  Not that imaginative a name, but that’s what it’s being called.

chat roulette from Casey Neistat on Vimeo.

I’m going to give it a try and file it under “Things That I Try That My Wife Thinks Are Pointless”.  Which is pretty much full of anything that is Internet related.  But this one she’s almost definitely right on.

If you see me, let’s chat and don’t “Next” me.

WARNING: Chat Roulette is NSFW and random strangers penises or breasts (not same person) may be visible in chat window.  Not mine.

Happy Groundhog Day!

2 Feb
2010

One of my all-time favorite movies. This little video has some of the best lines from the movie, including, “I’m a God! Not THE God…I don’t think.”

YouTube – Bill Murray – Best scenes from the “Groundhog Day” – 5.

Amazing Models

2 Feb
2010

The artist’s name is Michael Paul Smith.

Check out a full size slideshow.

Study: Humans Were Born To Run Barefoot

28 Jan
2010

NPR’s All Things Considered has published a short segment on barefoot running.  Here’s an eye opening quote from the story talking about heel strike running, “…it’s like someone hitting you on the heel with a hammer…”  Yeah, that’s what if feels like to me as well.

Study: Humans Were Born To Run Barefoot : NPR.

Conclusion: Barefoot running puts less stress on the body.

Check out the link for the video that shows the shockwave that travels up the leg when heel striking.

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