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Samplings from the World Wide Web by C.K. Sample III

Entries for July, 2005

Congrats, Jason!

Jason just called me from London. He and MJ are parents. Mother and new daughter are fine. I’m so happy for them!

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PDF Hardware Guide to the PSP

This is cool, but beware the pop-ups. It’s a PDF of all the different parts of a fully disassembled PSP.

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Big draining nothing of an argument…

See here and here for the history on this.
Gene Steinberg finally emailed me, repeating much of what he’s been saying here. Here’s the reply email I sent him, minus the parts that were quoted from his email to me:

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This is 50% of my problem with you, Gene. The tone and stance you adopt is instructive, [...]

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More notes on the PSP 2.0 browser

If you get an out of memory error, simply bring up the browser’s interface (hit Triangle) and then navigate to Tools, hit the X button, and choose “Delete Cache.” After you’ve done so, refresh the page. It should now load.
Last night, in the previous post, I discovered that not only can you download files via [...]

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sixflags79

sixflags79, originally uploaded by C.K. Sample, III.
This pic isn’t new. It`s on my about page. What’s cool about it is that I uploaded it from my PSP.

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psp moveable stand

psp moveable stand, originally uploaded by C.K. Sample, III.
Okay. Remember the crappy case from yesterday? Well, I attached it to what used to be a cheap Ikea desk lamp and ran the charger cord through the thing, so now I have a fully positional desk stand for hands free movie viewing on my PSP.

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An Open Letter to PSP Websites

Dear owner of a PSP-related website,
I love visiting your site and downloading the content that you provide. However, now that I have v.2.0 of the firmware running on my PSP, I’ve started visiting your site via my PSP more than I did via my computer.
The only problem I am encountering is that you have lots [...]

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Crappiest PSP case ever

crappiest PSP case ever

Originally uploaded by C.K. Sample, III.

I just spent more time than I’d like to admit making this very basic case for my PSP out of cardboard. Oh, yeah…you heard me right. First, there was the iPod, then the iPod shuffle, and now [...]

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On the new PSP video format…

PSP 411 has the info:

…it does seem that users might be able to pack more video per megabyte with AVC if there’s this much bitrate legroom left over. So far, the improvements are only minor, but we’d like to see how this new codec looks when it’s really put to the test by experienced video [...]

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How to use blogs in Education

Here’s the other side of the coin:

Following on from how NOT to use blogs in education this post attempts to summarise this paper and add a few extra angles onto how you can use blogs effectively in education and invites your additional hints, tips, criticisms & wotnot.

Note to self: Read this later when you have [...]

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Cartoon Musicals

I want to go see this.

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Portable TV

Good info: PSP News Coverage Updated 24/7: Registration Guide - Your Road to “Portable-TV”.

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More Free Comic Books for your PSP

Check it out: Free PSP Comics for Sony’s PlayStation Portable | Water Media.

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Blog as Business: Ideal verses Reality

Jason waxes poetic in a recent entry about what the blog-life is like: Walden 3 (or “Utopia as business model”). This is definitely the ideal that we’re all shooting for and would like to see happen, but it’s not the reality yet. There is a buzz in the Weblogs, Inc. camp, however, and we’re all [...]

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