Listening to: Transcendental Object At The End Of Time - Epsilon Blue

I have often spent time wondering about the weird disconnected feeling I have now that I have passed the year 2000… and how that imaginary barrier hasn’t been pushed out to another date. Danny Hillis sums it up well:

It was very surprising to me, getting to the future, that nobody was all that interested. Things just started to happen so fast, we were overwhelmed. With the microchip, we stopped being able to imagine the future — we had so much trouble handling what was being brought out in the present.

Listening to: Dashboard - Modest Mouse

Excellent:

Cars are the new smoking.

Hattip: Tim O’Reilly

Listening to: Paradise - Icehouse

From BBC World:

Security expert Bruce Schneier said: “As bad as the damage is from publishing - and there probably will be some - the damage is much, much worse by not disclosing.”

Listening to: Strawberry Swing - Coldplay

When I started Ponoko there were a list of specific people I wanted to end up using Ponoko. Stephen Templer was one of those people. I really love his art work. On Friday his latest automata was installed at Deluxe Cafe… some of the pieces were made using Ponoko. Stoked!

The second goal was that Ponoko was to be something that parents and children could use to learn… Whispering Inferno posted a small review - the key lines being:

We got out the beads tonight, some leather twine and hey presto, personalised jewellery. Can’t wait to try out some more complex stuff now we’ve mastered the basics. One more thing that technology lets me and my daughters learn together; nothing beats turning a paper design into a real world item!

Listening to: A Wonderful Life - Carl Craig

For my own notes: Developing iPhone applications using Ruby on Rails and Eclipse

Listening to: Alive And Kicking - Simple Minds

From the “you have no idea how it will get used” files:

This is a pendulum clock made of clear acrylic and nested brass tubes. The design of the gear train, escapement mechanism, and housing is original. As such, I’m sure it’s not as refined as it c…

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Listening to: Don’t You - Simple Minds

After getting my bash-scripting-fu on I was able to load my own content on the display:

Image Load Test 2
Originally uploaded by flash5.

Eventually I am going to have to recompile the OS of this puppy (it won’t do a DNS lookup for instance - let alone not having Perl or Python on board)… but I am going to try and put it off for as long as possible.

Listening to: Not Enough Love In The World - Don Henley

They sold out the first shipment of iPhones… seems they got their pricing bang on. Well played.

Listening to: No Names (Black Debbie) - Dangerdoom

I was going to give up being an Apple Fanboi. But then I upgraded my iPod Touch to version 2.0 of the OS and installed the iTunes Remote Control. Very cool. Next Lent I guess.

Listening to: Belfast Child - Simple Minds

Ok having nutted out how to talk to my dev board using the USB-serial connection… I then wanted to use the USBNET connection. Again this required some new drivers - but it was basically done by following the instructions outlined here.

The biggest hassle was setting up USB Ethernet on the Mac. You don’t have a comparable ifconfig call to make as you would under Linux. You need to install the USB drivers (additionally this if you’re running 10.5.x), wait for OSX to do it’s stuff and then set up the network connection in the ‘Network’ prefs panel. Once you’ve done that you can execute the relevant ifconfig call via the serial connection and then ssh using the OSX terminal.