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Have you played with one of these $100 network attached storage servers? I just found out about them today. They’re “Plug computers”—a solid-state wall-wart-sized low-power-drawing Linux server; attach a Gigabit Ethernet connection to your router and a USB drive for storage, and you’ve got file sharing and media streaming on your home LAN and over the web. There’s the TonidoPlug, the PogoPlug, and the announced-just-yesterday Marvell Plug computer. I don’t know if I’m too easily impressed, but if these things deliver what they promise, then our home network needs just got way cheaper.

FunctionFlip – Software – Kevin Gessner. Gonna add this to my MacBook Pro.

A reminder to go and fix these when I’m home from work.

The New Facebook Privacy Settings: A How-To – Gadgetwise Blog – NYTimes.com.

I really am trying to implement a working GTD system for myself, and a wiki seems potentially very valuable, as I have many different contexts but many of them are related. I would love a wiki I mirrored/synched across iPhone, Mac, and my web space. Probably asking for too much and I don’t have the chops to develop it myself. This is a possibility: Mobile Wiki Server, a $3.99 app for the iPhone; how much of a hassle to sync, though? More on this later.

Does this work?

Update. I posted this from the new Wordpress v2.0 for iPhone. It respects Textile formatting. Now to see if Posterous will let me do that.

I have a nephew who shouldn’t see this until after Halloween.

Dessine moi un objet » Blog Archive » Iphone and Itouch paper stand / dock [LETTER US SIZE]. Many thanks to Dessine moi un objet for the template and the photlef

Creating a home emergency kit can be a simple to enormous undertaking depending on the level of energy and preparation you want to invest into it. Most people are on the “Stay warm and fed until the power comes back on” camp, not the “Prepared for zombie apocalypse” camp, and though it never hurts to prepare for the worst we’ll be focusing more on the former than the latter.Once you read over the following tips you can adopt them to fit your needs based on your locale and weather, size of your homef, and how much storage space you have available.

via Put Together a Winter Home Emergency Kit – Stay In, Geek Out – Lifehacker.

First Look: Travel organizer Tripit.com offers iPhone app, from The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Must learn about this app, and use it with Ellen, so we can keep track of each other.

Saturday is one of two days a year that Decatur accepts just about any kind of electronics for recycling. We’ve got an old coffee maker that’s missing the carafe, a decrepit PC with a bad power supply, some old big batteries, cell phones, and some other odds and ends. Some of these things are toxic, and we don’t want them in landfills, and we’re very glad Decatur provides this opportunity.

You can probably do this in your town. Search for recycling centers in or near your zip code at Earth911.com.

Has we got a pic?
No: the LibXML2 Fix plugin needs to be activated too. One more test from the iPhone in a minute.

Will this post work? Heres an image:

_Edit: fixed. Somehow this site’s xmlrpc file got changed. Details here.

Installed the latest WordPress update but have had little chance to investigate. Had a permissions problem at my host but got it quickly settled.
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————Edit – above you see the mess left when I try to create a post including a photo uploaded from the WordPress app on my iPhone. I use the Textile plugin, and maybe that’s what’s messing things up, but I suspect the text editor on the phone uses some sort of rich text formatting that borks things. Grumpy.

Security: Lessons Learned from a Hacked Gmail Account
May none of us learn these lessons the hard way. Ooof.

In which I post to a particularly on-point post from Lifehacker about cleaning up my desk, which you see here, snapped from my phone. Part of cleaning things up begins this morning with backed-up posts I want to get on line, so that reduces the pathetic factor a little, I suppose.

Will is setting up his new MacBook Pro. After choosing several different laptops, and even eating the cost of a Lenovo restocking fee, he chose the Mac. A key determinant: the included 8GB iPod Touch. I’m pleased, almost excessively so. It’ll be fun to watch him adapt, but difficult to keep my fat Mac-familiar nose out of it while he does.

I found the two-column version of the theme I use here, but it doesn’t work with this version of Wordpress. I’d like to have just one sidebar… Stef was right, the second one clutters the space. It’s very difficult to find the theme I want…. That should be a hint to learn something and do it myself, right?

Right.

[Sigh.]

At my host, Joyent, I’ve managed to move from Harwood, a FreeBSD Linux server to Laurel, a “Shared Accelerator” on Sun Sparc hardware running OpenSolaris. Which means little to me, a n00b who knows enough to create a lot of difficulty. Once I figured out the database password confusion, this blog reappeared along with my other one. This post is a test, to make sure I can still post. If you’re reading it, well, guess what?

Things you never thought you could do with your camera | MetaFilter

Yow – apparently amazing things can be done with a hacked Canon point and shoot.

Via PopUrls.com, 60 Advanced Photoshop Tutorials – Top Web Resources. I love Photoshop tutorials. The more I learn about Photoshop the more I love it.