I’m sitting in my hotel room in Dublin, OH, reading up on some stuff to prepare for a job tomorrow. It’s 11:58p right now, just watching TV for the sake of background noise. I just was able to tear my eyes off of Russell Simmons presents Def Poetry for a few seconds after [...]

I thought it would be good to give props to products that I think deserve some attention. I buy head phones a lot. I like to carry music or podcasts with me, either with my iPod (3G), my laptop, or whatever. I used to buy the on-ear (OE) headphones (the kind with [...]

I was recently introduced to the idea of lock bumping (thanks Steve) and, after doing some further research, discovered that it is a very easy, highly successful method of opening many standard, pin-tumbler locks. There is a simple, informative explanation of this lock-opening technique by Barry Wels and Rop Gronggrijp, members of TOOOL: The [...]

I’ve been using The GIMP since I stopped pirating software a few years ago. I am by no means a graphic artist (more like a graphic tragedy), but for those who want to become an open-source software user and this want the capabilities of a powerful image manipulation program, The GIMP is a great [...]