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Yesterday, after several weeks of delay, I received the 7-inch touch panel I had ordered for my Asus Eee PC (*). Much thanks to jkkmobile for discovering that one could install a touch panel in the Eee and for paving the way with his video how-to. Before I get into the nitty-gritty of taking my [...]

Doc Searls said something interesting in this post about Twitter and Facebook:

I’m sure there’s something on Facebook that does the same thing. But Facebook is AOL 2.0. It’s heavy and complicated and wants to run my life. So I mostly avoid it. My loss perhaps, but that’s beside the twin points of live vs. static [...]

Check it out: Mahalo Daily: CES 2008, Day 2:

The Mahalo Daily (*) crew is at CES 2008 (*) all this week with Engadget helping to cover every nook and cranny of the conference. Check on Engadget and on Mahalo for lots of great gadget news.
Lots of great stuff can be found in our CES 2008 [...]

I should have done this weeks ago. Last night, I tweaked the instructions found here slightly to remove the 70Mhz cap on the front side bus on my Asus Eee PC. Why would you do this? Well, the 900Mhz processor sported by the Eee only runs at about 600Mhz with the FSB set at 70Mhz. [...]

Kristin picked me up from work today wearing the boots I bought her for Christmas that she wasn’t supposed to open yet. As a result, I arrived home and ripped open my new white PSP slim Rebel Assault edition (complete with Darth Vader on the back) and composite video attachment to hook it up to [...]

Here’s some video of my Asus Eee PC that I shot yesterday:

You can see the Eee next to my large orcish hands to give you an idea of how incredibly small it is. Also, I rather clumsily toggle through the screens to show you the cool cube effects that Ubuntu can support on the Eee. [...]

If you followed all the steps in my last post about the Asus Eee PC, then you have a persistent and fully functional copy of Ubuntu on a USB stick. The problem with this (besides that USB stick jutting out the side of the Eee all the time)? Boot time is slow. Since the USB [...]

I’ve been combing over various guides and instructions online for installing Ubuntu on the Asus Eee PC (*), and I ran into a few kinks along the way since I don’t have a USB CD-ROM to install from and opted for a USB flash drive instead, so I thought I’d write the process out in [...]

Check out this picture. My Asus Eee PC (*) next to a 12-inch PowerBook. What’s really crazy is that the Eee has a faster processor. I had total flashbacks today seeing these two computers next to each other. The 12-inch was my *favorite* Mac of all time. I built a blog around blogging about that [...]

Still loving my Asus Eee PC. Check it out. It’s the perfect size to strap onto my bike rack for the daily commute:

One thing I forgot to mention about the Eee yesterday: when it’s sitting in your lap, if the screen is pushed back much farther than 90 degrees, the weight of the screen plus [...]

My Asus Eee PC arrived today. I’m using it right now to post this first impression post about the Eee. First off, despite what all the other reviews out there say, the keyboard isn’t too small. It takes a bit of getting used to, but it works nicely and I can type pretty fast on [...]

Sad news to wake up to on a Monday morning:

Currently Marc’s immediate family as well as his brothers and parents are in or on their way to Albuquerque to be with Marc. Sue has asked me to keep Marc’s colleagues and friends in the technology community updated as information becomes available. Please do not contact [...]

So, I finally managed to get my blog’s new design to fully validate. Check it out. It took a little bit of combing through the code, but I managed to squash all the validation errors.
The most problematic of the errors was one caused by Blip.tv’s embed code. If you want to embed Blip.tv videos without [...]

Check out what Scoble says about the Kindle:

It’s obvious that they never had this device in their hands when they were designing it.
Whoever designed this should be fired and the team should start over.

Ouch.

I’ve always thought about what my perfect gadget would be, and I think we’re getting closer and closer to it, simply because I have several devices now which approach the ideal.
So here are the things needed for a perfect gadget:
1. Always-on connectivity
2. Sustainable power (preferably self-powering through solar-panels or a built in hand-crank like the [...]

Here’s a pic of my temporary Asus Eee PC (*) that I received today and already sent back to NewEgg. It’s incredibly small and I was super-excited about it, but after it got past this original boot screen and I launched Firefox for the first time, it became clear that there was something wrong. At [...]

See Eye of Judgement (*) to understand what the heck this post is about.
So Eliot brought Eye of Judgement (*) for the PS3 over last night. It was kind of like being inside an episode of Yu-Gi-Oh, as you’re playing, essentially, a card game, brought to operatic levels of absurdity by video game goodness. All [...]

This morning’s ride consists of me talking about why all the 15 or so podcasts I’ve recorded between last episode and this one never made it on this site, about my pet parrots, about Gmail IMAP (*), about my iPhone (*), about updating to 1.1.1., and hacking, and more largely about Google (*) with just [...]

So, now that Gmail finally gave me IMAP access (THANKS, GOOGLE!), I have a pretty awesome system setup. IMAP access via iPhone to my main (Gmail Apps), secondary (.Mac address), and tertiary (old regular Gmail account) email accounts. I set up READLATER folders in all three accounts, so now whenever I’m on my iPhone and [...]

Kristin and I have a new home phone number, and it’s over Skype with this new little wifi handset, so we can take it with us anywhere. We’ll be distributing the number soon, after we’re sure it doesn’t really suck as a phone.
As a side-effect of this transition (and my own stupidity for not creating [...]