personal

Quick trip to WV

I got back to SC late last night (actually about 2:30am). Elisabeth and I had a great time together in WV. I arrived there late Friday evening. The drive went pretty well except for getting stuck in Charlotte traffic for about an hour on the way. It was a bad idea to drive through Charlotte… Read More Quick trip to WV

computing, web stuff

Dial with your iPod

“Here’s”:http://www.macmerc.com/articles/Pro_Pod_Power_Tips/363 a cool idea: use an iPod (actually a number of different digital audio players would work) to generate a touch-tone signal and place a call over a standard analog line. This scheme can even store address book entries using playlist files. It’s actually quite intuitive know that I think about it, but it’s something… Read More Dial with your iPod

current events

ID mixup makes tragedy even more painful

“This”:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13081646/ is an amazingly tragic situation made even more painful for some of the families involved because of an extremely unfortunate ID mixup. I find it a little surprising that the mistake was made in the first place, let alone that is was propogated for so long.