March 2011 – BTMJ.org

I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

Orson Welles

Mothership

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

Marlon Brando

Near Field Communication (NFC): What is it and why should you care?

So not only will you be able to make payments from your phone – throwing your wallet out the window and creating extra space in your pockets for your hands – the same device will also contain your ID, railcard and all those frustratingly addictive membership and loyalty cards that you can never find when you actually need them.

Rich Tones

CSUCI Library

Editing MacOS Hosts File in Terminal

Ok, so I don’t forget this again…

sudo nano /private/etc/hosts

Maybe someone else will find that helpful.

The empires of the future will be empires of the mind.

Winston Churchill

StatusNet Open Source “Twitter” Installed in Lab

Want a private micro-blogging environment? I’m experimenting in the lab with this Turnkey Linux appliance of StatusNet. The screenshot above shows the public timeline with some test “notices” (as I would guess “tweet” is probably a trademark by now) and “repeated notices”. There is even a desktop client and support for all kinds of features.

Finally added some nice rye to the collection (more on that after we pull the cork, here’s a good tidbit for now). Special thanks to Laraine for a mission accomplished!