t was about time to clean up the crusty wordpress template powering bnee.com. It was one of the first templates for wordpress I created, and it has powered this website since 2006.
I’ve kept track of all of the revisions of my website since 1997, you can see the whole progression on my old stuff …read more
[This was updated 12/16/2008 with the most recent software I am using]
7-zip – This program will handle nearly any type of compressed file. Its pretty solid and supports drag and drop. – Replaces WinZip & WinRar
Daemon Tools – Daemon tools is a CD emulator, needed if you want to mount CD or DVD images. …read more
A picture I took in Hong Kong recently got featured in the Error’d section of The Daily WTF. They even took the time to blur out the kid’s faces.
Brendan Nee observed some children at a Hong Kong airport enjoying one of my favorite passtimes – dancing on a projected DOS prompt!
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I’ve been living in a live/work converted warehouse space in San Francisco for a few months now. Along with seven other people, we did all of the work of building out the space ourselves. My brother put together a video time-lapse montage of our progress and posted it on youtube, check it out:
If …read more
I’ve been rocking Google’s new web browser Chrome for the last few days and really like it. Browsing craigslist and clicking on email mailto: links I realized there isn’t an obvious way to force these links to open a gmail window in Chrome. Most Windows systems will have the default mailto handler set …read more
En route from Belize City I decided to honor the start of the 2008 Olympic Games by taking the Panda Express challenge. A sign in Houston’s George Bush Intercontintal Airport posed the question: “Which is better, Beijing Beef or Orange Chicken”.
After trying both, I give the gold medal to Orange Chicken with Beijing Beef taking …read more
I haven’t posted recently, but if you noticed the Twitter feed on this site you probably guessed that I am still alive.
I got back from my world trip, went to google I/O, spent two weeks searching for a live/work space in San Francisco, and since June 11 I’ve been working on extensive rennovations to the …read more
Warning: Rant below
I decided to take a last minute trip to Belize with Lisa to meet up with Jed who has been traveling around Mexico for the last few weeks. Lisa found a $360 ticket at 8 PM leaving at 12:30 AM so we packed, hit up a Taqueria for a goodbye burrito and …read more
I woke up this morning to check my email and found a very exciting update from Google. I’ll be attending Google I/O, which I was already very excited about. Google arranged for my favorite band to entertain at the reception after the first day: Flight of the Conchords. How the Conchords could …read more
I spent some time figuring out how to get the wordpress wp_list_pages function to return the results as a PHP array of URLs and page names. There wasn’t an obvious way to do this and searching google did not yield anything particularly useful. The wp_list_pages function has an “echo” parameter which when set …read more
Caused some financial havoc, too, by breaking authorize.net. This story is of personal interest, because I was trying to get wifi today in the hotel I’m staying at to participate in the West Coast S. […]
SFAppeal wrote a great article detailing the hurdles of trying to get real time info from a public transit agency. In the case of San Franciso Muni, they claim to own the data and also the desire for. […]
You’d think it would be easy to change the stacking order of things you overlay in Google Maps, right? Like, no one wants that stupid AC Transit logo to go underneath the polygon they drew . . . . .. […]
Via The Transportationist: In Michigan, miles of deteriorated rural roads that need repaving have been reverted to gravel. According to WWMT: The county estimates it takes about $10,000 to grind up a. […]
A unified fare payment medium will go a long way in unifying the Bay Area’s highly fragmented, 28-agency transit system. From a user perspective, needing to know fare rules and exact change for mult. […]
Our good friend, consultant and roommate, Jason Wolfe, is interning at Willow Garage, a robotics research group in Silicon Valley. They recently achieved a significant milestone in robotics: their PR2. […]
To our loyal blog readers – this isn’t quite ready for production, but I wanted to explore BART’s new open data feed and do something fun. Comments, thoughts, appreciated. A few known issues: We. […]
Via TechCrunch: Apple may be known for its advertising prowess, but this little marketing coup is going to go down as one of the most hilarious ad placements in recent history. doubleTwist, the compan. […]
Jed, Mike and I were featured on TransForm’s flickr page as attendees of this years Summit 2009: Windfall for All. We attended sessions on carsharing, transit and even one that discussed Cool Neighb. […]
Both New York and San Francisco, there are streets closing to create new pedestrian plazas. New York has begun closing parts of Broadway in Times Square and Herald Square on weekends to create additio. […]
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