.: Above The Aether :.

I’m the internet video link
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I found this great poster from the “Academy of Linguistic Awarness”  that I assume was hung on a college campus in California somewhere.
Don’t sound stupid, stop saying “like”.
I hope it makes you, like, smile or something.
-Dave

Originally called the $100 laptop project, it came in at just under $200 each, but still a bargain when you consider all the technology involved in making something like this.
In 2002, MIT Professor Nicholas Negroponte experienced first-hand how connected laptops transformed the lives of children and their families in a remote Cambodian village. A seed [...]

The good: Google introduced IMAP protocol for Gmail, allowing multiple platforms (web, phone, desktop application) to synch gmail seemlessly.  For example, if I delete an email from my desktop Mac Mail application, it will be deleted across all the access points I use to manage email.  Or so the theory goes.
The bad: It’s a fucking [...]

Gmail is getting a storage boost in the coming days, according to a recent post on the Gmail blog.  The storage counter will be sped up to increase in size a little more speedy than before.
It’s like free money…only not quite as good.
-Dave

Google Reader, the site I use to read my RSS feeds, has a neat feature that allows me to share interetsing blog posts I am reading with the public.  If I find something really funny or engaging I might post it here in the blog, but I also might just flag it to share on [...]

This video is a great explanation of exactly what RSS readers are and how they work. I really love it when complicated things can be described in simple terms. Cool stuff.
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-Dave

Having come to the end of our current cell phone contract, Justine and I picked up a pair of Blackberry Curves to check our email, blog, take pictures, etc. My first impressions of the Blackberry Curve is that it does the following things very well: phone, email, mobile maps, calendar, tasks, contacts.
It does the [...]

I’m headed to BarCamp Houston tomorrow.  I hope to hang with my fellow tech-heads and learn a thing or two.
I’m mostly interested in the design & usability sessions, but I’m also interested in the sessions about presenting content and team building.  It’s been tough to recruit good web designers in this town, so maybe they [...]

Part of me thinks the whirlwind of hype surrounding the iPhone is absolutely ridiculous.
Another part of me (the nerdy, gadget-loving part) wants one anyhow.
Will the iPhone revolutionize mobile communication as all of the commericals promise? Who knows. However, there are phones out today that can do all of the things the iPhone is [...]