Jaworski House

Category: TecHead

  • Slowness by Aggregation

    <iframe src=”https://www.flickr.com/photos/jaworskihouse/15676661972/player/” width=”386″ height=”137″ frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe><br />n<br />nI truly understand and appreciate the benefits of loading the content of your website from various other sources across the net. I really do! In fact, I do it myself with the website for the nonprofit I run, the SJAA. But is this the…

  • twitter search string

    I realize this is no super killer discovery, but it’s a big enough deal to me, so I’d like to record it. So here it is.<br />n<br />nSearching on Twitter takes the following search syntax:<br />n<br />nhttps://twitter.com/search?q=@[some-search-string]+OR+#[some-search-string]<br />n<br />nIn Firefox, it escapes the hash to a <u>%23</u> (without the two underbars).<br />n<br />nThere. Now I…

  • Has Apple Jumped the Shark?

    <a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaworskihouse/8270386450/” title=”Engraved Ipod?”><img src=”https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8224/8270386450_d9b2124f44_n.jpg” width=”320″ height=”177″ alt=”Engraved Ipod?”></a><br />nI got an email this morning from Apple, again trying to lock me in, er, sell me in to their i* world. But this time, I took notice. They offered to engrave an ipod with a custom message.<br />n<br />nIsn’t this something that’s best left to…

  • Exposing Kids to the Internet and Technology

    It’s been on my to-do list for a while now, something called “parental controls”. My thoughts around that has to do with having a pre-tween in the house, as Penny is well into fourth grade and the school is asking her to have, as part of her fourth grade supplies, a USB flash drive. She’ll…

  • adobe-flashplugin

    I have a virtual box running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I updated the system every few weeks or months, but I had been having trouble due to the adobe-flashplugin removal always erring out.<br />n<br />nDid some searching on the interwebs and got to a forum on crunch bang linux. Read through it, tried some of the…

  • On the Old Dell

    We have this old laptop, a Dell Latitude D510. It used to be hooked up to a corporate network, and I always had a feeling that this instance of Windows XP was always trying to reach out to those domain controllers of yesteryear, trying to reestablish network connections that haven’t existed in years.<br />n<br />nOne…

  • Indoor Flying

    I finally got tired of fighting every little last breeze outside with the RC Helicopter, so I took the advice of the guys in the shop and decided to only fly it indoors. In the garage, that is.<br />n<br />nOf course, the air is very still inside, so it’s a lot easier to control. I…

  • RC Heli’s

    Not sure I mentioned, no, I’m sure I haven’t mentioned (because I haven’t posted in far too long!) the fact that I picked up a cheap radio controlled helicopter over the summer. Maybe that’s one of the reasons I haven’t been posting, all my time’s been consumed by this new “hobby”, time suck.<br />n<br />n<a…

  • Last of May 2011

    It’s the last day of May, 2011. Might be a good time to recap the month.<br />n<br />nPenny had her annual piano recital for 2011. You can see <a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dWZpnUsa2A” title=”penny on you tube”>her performance on YouTube</a>. If you are interested in how she did a year earlier, compare it to <a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSIseCtrDKE” title=”penny on…

  • In the First Hundred Thousand

    I just got an email (auto mail, no doubt) from Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn’s founder and chairman, thanking me for being an early adopter. According to his mail, I was one of the first 100,000 members of the site, and they recently passed the 100 million member mark.<br />n<br />nThat was a long time ago that…