Thursday, December 11, 2008

How Dangerous of a Driver Are You?

How dangerous of a driver are you?

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Stickers hold the world together; Glittery stickers make the world brighter

Google is giving away stickers related to Gmail including keyboard shortcut stickers and old school "This belongs to" stickers that include @gmail.com. I want to get them, but I am probably not going to take the time to send a SASE to Google. If I do I'll let you know.


Official Gmail Blog: Get your Gmail stickers

Monday, July 14, 2008

Fun With Physics and Music

A water and cornstarch mixture and music combine to form a disgusting yet entrancing combination:


Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Sean's Tweets for the Day

  • 18:42 @mollywood More info to come? #
  • 18:43 Define dicker #
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Saturday, June 28, 2008

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Thursday, June 26, 2008

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Sean's Tweets for the Day

  • 18:36 @mollywood Possibly if you use different install paths. They'll sharethe same profile though. #
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Monday, June 23, 2008

Sean's Tweets for the Day

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Thursday, June 19, 2008

Sean's Tweets for the Day

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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Sean's Tweets for the Day

  • 18:49 Happy Firefox Day! #
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Friday, June 13, 2008

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Thursday, June 12, 2008

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Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Sean's Tweets for the Day

  • 23:40 @jasoncalacanis did i already miss the form? i'd voted for the video earlier today. #
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Gmail updates for speed; not quite there

Official Gmail Blog: A need for speed: the path to a faster loading sequence

I've been noticing that Gmail has been loading slower now that it shows a status bar while loading. The status bar seems to fill up multiple times before my inbox loads and now takes up to about a minute to load my inbox.

Anyone else experiencing this after the load time update?

Sunday, June 08, 2008

Sean's Tweets for the Day

  • 10:47 @comcastcares You seen to do that all the time. #
  • 10:52 @comcastcares I can definitely understand that. It's been a busy week for a lot of us. #
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Thursday, June 05, 2008

Sean's Tweets for the Day

  • 18:23 On a hot day like today i'm glad i can park in the parking deck. Also traffic seen to be moving better here with a cop than the signals #
  • 18:33 There are 5 lights out on concord starting at atlanta rd. #
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Sean's Tweets for the Day

  • 10:37 I'm about to give blood. Convenient that the red cross is doing a blood drive in my office building. #
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Sunday, June 01, 2008

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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Revision3 Taken Down by MediaDefender

Revision3

Wow! MediaDefender placed their own torrents in Revision3's BitTorrent tracker and then abused their server with SYN packets. Revision3 uses BitTorrent for the distribution of their own media files--not files owned by other parties/companies. MediaDefender, who is often funded by the RIAA, MPAA, and their members, attacks illegal file sharers. After Revision3 removed the files that MediaDefender deceptively put into its tracker MediaDefender commenced a DOS (denial of service) attack on Revision3's torrent tracker server.

"Although I can only guess, here’s what I think really happened. Media Defender was abusing one of Revision3’s servers for their own purposes – quite without our approval. When we closed off their backdoor access, MediaDefender’s servers freaked out, and went into attack mode – much like how a petulant toddler will throw an epic tantrum if you take away an ill-gotten Oreo.

That tantrum threw upwards of 8,000 SYN packets a second at our servers. And that was enough to bring down both our public facing site, our RSS server, and even our internal corporate email – basically the entire Revision3 business. Smashing the cookie jar, as it were, so that no one else could have any Oreos either."

This is unacceptable from any point of view. MediaDefender should be stopped. How? I don't know. I wouldn't doubt it if there was a petition posted online somewhere.

P.S.: Thanks to @mollywood for the tweet about this.

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Sean's Tweets for the Day

  • 10:43 So we just got to the renaissance festival. The temperature is just right and this guy might kill himself trying to swallow a sword. #
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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Sean's Tweets for the Day

  • 15:05 I had a good night camping with Sheena and the young women from church. Mm smores. It was just right for camping up here. #
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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Sean's Tweets for the Day

  • 10:18 So, Prince Caspian was terrific. It had action, accents, gorgeous scenery, a good plot. Everything to make @skysheena fall asleep. ;) #
  • 20:08 Man! Since i paid for turbotax out of my refund my stimulus check will be sent by mail by 7/11 instead of deposited by 5/16. I'd been ha ... #
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Sunday, May 18, 2008

Sean's Tweets for the Day

  • 15:51 Prince caspian 30008 #
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Sean's Tweets for the Day

  • 13:22 Wow. Cypess's phones are down for all their customers! Have been for about 20 minutes now! #
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Monday, May 05, 2008

Sean's Tweets for the Day

  • 15:12 @huntersmom i wish we could have been there this week. #
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Friday, May 02, 2008

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Saturday, April 26, 2008

Sean's Tweets for the Day

  • 21:24 @wilw No offense, but I just LOLed! Lego Wesley Crusher. Lego is coming out with everything they can. #
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Friday, April 25, 2008

Sean's Tweets for the Day

  • 12:49 Follow jason calicanis #
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Saturday, April 19, 2008

Sean's Tweets for the Day

  • 17:54 Traffic sucks. #
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Sunday, April 13, 2008

What my internet connection can do



This is what my internet connection can do on a good day and time.

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Sean's Tweets for the Day

  • 23:05 GO ROCK CHALK! #
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Saturday, April 05, 2008

Sean's Tweets for the Day

  • 10:06 Bummer. The softball game for tomorrow has been cancelled. #
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008

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Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Sean's Tweets for the Day

  • 10:52 Holy cow! It's snowing! #
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Friday, March 07, 2008

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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Sean's Tweets for the Day

  • 08:53 It snowed and is snowing! #
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Sunday, February 24, 2008

Portal: A Very Brief Review

Portal is one of the most innovative games to come out in the past year. It is a puzzle game that involves the use of portals (duh!). You are able to enter one portal and instantly come out the other portal. I have played this and agree with many who call it (one of) the best games of 2007. You start to realize what you can do with these portals and can get enveloped in using portals to solve puzzles that are placed in your path. Currently, I am on level 19 of Portal and am trying to figure out how to get to the next area. This is a very addicting game and I can't wait for there to be more content available for it.

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Sony PlayStation 3, Blu-Ray Disc, and Video Games

When Sony introduced the PlayStation 3 to the market it was the most expensive console at the time. It (originally) played PlayStation One, PlayStation 2, and PlayStation 3 games as well as DVD and Blu-Ray Disc movies. It originally came out in 20GB and 60GB models that included compatibility for most PS2 games. Then, in order to lower production costs Sony replace those models with 40GB and 80GB models that omit the Emotion Engine chip that was used for PS2 compatibility. Games made for the PlayStation 3 are still somewhat lacking. As far as I can tell, most PS3 games seem to have graphics that are either on par with the Xbox 360 or worse than those of the Xbox 360. The Metal Gear Solid 4 has been delayed and reportedly Grand Theft Auto IV was delayed because of PS3.

On the other side of the PS3 it was launched as the least expensive Blu-Ray Disc player on the market. To this day it is still one of the least expense BD players due to its price changes. It is also one of the few BD players that is easily updated as most of the first-generation players did not include an ethernet port as opposed to HD-DVD players which all had an ethernet port for easy network access. Many BD players are updatable via ISO disc images downloaded and burned to a CD/DVD and then run on the player.

Sony has been pushing Blu-Ray relentlessly. It did not need to include Blu-Ray in its game console. I am sure its decision to include Blu-Ray was based on its experience with PS1 and PS2. PlayStation 1 helped more people get CD players, and thus more CDs. PlayStation 2 helped put a DVD player in people's homes. I am sure that they assumed that the PlayStation 3 could be used to push the latest disc standard which just so happened to be created and pushed by Sony. It seems that Blu-Ray has been winning the HD disc format war-especially with it's latest boost from Warner Brothers, and it is on track to finally win the HD disc format war.

I do not believe that HD downloads will become commonplace enough to supplant physical media before a clear winner is declared. I wish broadband in the USA was getting better, but they are not--with the notable exception of Verizon's FiOS service. (I have not heard much about AT&T's U-Verse service other than the batteries being replaced.) Broadband speeds are stagnant and Time Warner Cable is testing out metered bandwidth in Beaumont, Texas. Xbox Live Video Marketplace, Apple TV, (legal) BitTorrent, and DivX services are becoming more popular and will continue to do so, but until there is more competition and penetration of broadband internet service these will not replace physical formats.

Monday, January 07, 2008

Feeling Blu Thanks to WB

The news has been flying around that Warner Brothers--the last neutral movie distributor--will start distributing the HD versions of their films in Blu-Ray only. Their contract with HD-DVD will end in May 2008 and after that they will be exclusive to Blu-Ray. This will effectively end the format war as they join Fox, Disney, Lionsgate, and of course Sony Pictures on the Blu-Ray side leaving only Paramount, Dreamworks Animation SKG, and NBC Universal on HD-DVD.
WB Home Entertainment President Kevin Tsujihara said, "A two-format landscape has led to consumer confusion and indifference toward high definition, which has kept the technology from reaching mass adoption and becoming the important revenue stream that it can be for the industry." I agree that the format war has kept many from jumping into the HD disc pool. If the studios hadn't taken sides and distributed in both formats they might have both succeeded, but with Sony having a stake in Blu-Ray they created a stalemate by only supporting Blu-Ray and not HD-DVD.
It's over. Now we can just count down to when the remaining HD-DVD supporters will switch to Blu-Ray (probably not until BD Profile 2.0) and someone makes a Blu-Ray add-on for the Xbox 360.