Two weeks ago (Monday, March 5th, 2007 - I am obviously a bit late in posting this) Galan, Ben, and I went down to the new Sound Transit Operations & Maintenance Facility for the official dedication and the first public tour.
Seattle has been in great need of a good public transportation system for a long [...]
Due to intense fog at the launch site, we weren’t able to launch as planned. After a lot of consideration, we decided to do a tethered launch to test everything out. This was a huge success, and proved very valuable. The balloon got to around 250 feet and took lots of pictures. All of our [...]
Over this past week, I’ve been involved in an amazing project to build a weather balloon carrying a bunch of cameras and launch it into the edge of space. We’re just finishing up some last minute details right now, and plan to head out to middle of nowhere eastern washington very soon. We’re going to [...]
January 30, 2007 – 8:32 pm
Earlier this month I had the great opportunity to become the first person to join the growing team at BillMonk.com!
BillMonk is a free service that makes it easy to track expenses between friends, and to settle them up instantly online. Particularly popular with roommates, young professionals, and college students, it has been used for splitting [...]
December 8, 2006 – 11:24 pm
Casey posted a link to this song in IRC today, I like it quite a bit:
Jonathan Coulton - Code Monkey
The song is under a Creative Commons license which allows for redistribution with very few conditions, but if you like it, I ask that you seriously consider paypaling $1 to the artist. DRM-free music that makes [...]
November 18, 2006 – 2:15 pm
The Wall Street Journal published a spot-on article a few days ago about the Novell+Microsoft arrangement.
It’s only available online to subscribers, so I scanned it:
And making the news yesterday, The CEO of Microsoft has straight up said that every (with the exception of Novell/SuSE of course!) linux company, developer, and user is violating Microsoft-held patents, [...]
November 7, 2006 – 2:45 pm
Vote today.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin
UPDATE: It seems a few people everyone missed the point here. I was most certainly not suggesting that anyone should vote republican, I was trying to point out the foolishness of this advertisement. I [...]
November 5, 2006 – 1:10 pm
Lots of talk about the Novell+Microsoft agreement. I don’t have much to say, but wanted to post something.
From the Microsoft Press Release:
Novell will also make running royalty payments based on a percentage of its revenues from open source products.
I find this particularly disturbing, considering that all of the compatibility problems between Windows and Linux are [...]
October 30, 2006 – 11:45 am
Saturday’s field day was a success! The alki group got together around 11:30 and quickly had a link to the folks at magnolia.
The primary form of communication between sites was FRS, which was absolutely horrible. Apparently everyone else could here us fine, but we could barely hear anything, and had to constantly ask the [...]
October 27, 2006 – 12:48 pm
This Saturday (October 28th, 2006), SeattleWireless is holding our
second Field Day.
From the website:
Field day is a free hands-on, all-day exercise for those interested in
learning about wireless networking and community wireless networks.
We will be setting up a mesh network at three parks around Seattle:
Alki, Magnolia and Gasworks; as well as directional wireless links
connecting them all together. [...]