http://feelslikeburning.com You can't spell geek without EE. Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:13:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few months ago, my headphones broke. They were Sony MDR-NC6s, pretty cheap but the noise-canceling really helps cuts out the HVAC in a cube environment. They failed when I stood up and the cord was wrapped around my chair. The cord pulled out of the bottom ... http://feelslikeburning.com/2008/11/29/adding-an-audio-jack-on-headphones/ (The photos are located at Adam's Workbench) I live in a pretty cool apartment building in south Minneapolis. While I'm lucky enough to have a office, the office doesn't have enough space for a workbench. Even if it did have enough space for a workbench, I wouldn't be able ... http://feelslikeburning.com/2008/04/08/uncluttering-with-a-closet-workbench/ Last Saturday marked the finale of the third season of the new Doctor Who. To celebrate, Amanda and I made a cake--a TARDIS cake, with Jelly Babies. I had an easier time than I expected finding Jelly Babies. Our local grocery store had them in their tiny British section. We ... http://feelslikeburning.com/2007/07/04/making-a-doctor-who-tardis-cake-with-jelly-babies/ I recently installed Linux on my Macbook with Boot Camp. I recently decided to use a virtualization solution instead, and wanted to get that space back. When I ran Boot Camp, it wouldn't combine my partitions together, possibly because I put Linux on there, instead of Windows, and ... http://feelslikeburning.com/2007/05/31/restoring-to-a-single-partition-after-installing-linux-with-boot-camp/ The project page is located at http://feelslikeburning.com/projects/gregarius-sticky-exporter/. The only change is that it now uses the database information stored in dbinit.php, so you don't have to put in the information by hand into the php file. http://feelslikeburning.com/2007/03/26/gregarius-sticky-exporter-updated-to-v02/ I love Actiontastic. I really do. After I realized how much I was relying on it, I read a few Django tutorials and started work on an open-source clone. The morning I was going to release my clone to the world, the author of Actiontastic announced he ... http://feelslikeburning.com/2007/03/20/actiontastic-exporter/ Dear internets, I would like to be able to print index cards on my Samsung ML-1740 in Linux. It can be done in Windows. Have any of you ever gotten this to work? I'm not averse to writing code. I've written a CUPS backend in python. ... http://feelslikeburning.com/2007/03/13/linux-driver-to-print-index-cards-on-the-samsung-ml-1740-lazyweb-request/ The project page is located at http://feelslikeburning.com/projects/gregarius-sticky-exporter/. I use Gregarius for my feed aggregator and reader. I've had a busy semester, and have marked close to 2000 items as "sticky" so I can read them when I have more time. I don't like the built-in "Browse Sticky" ... http://feelslikeburning.com/2007/03/05/gregarius-sticky-post-exporter/ The Nokia 770 is the best ebook reader I have ever used. I use FBreader, a very versatile reader for Linux. My favorite feature is screen rotate. This lets me use the 770 sideways in my hand, and I can use my finger change pages with the ... http://feelslikeburning.com/2006/04/16/reading-ebooks-on-the-nokia-770-with-fbreader/ Summary in photos: My Treo 650 arrived today! It's a free replacement of my Treo 600 that no longer makes or takes phone calls. I haven't had a lot of time to play with the new Treo, but because it has Bluetooth, I should be able to interface the Nokia ... http://feelslikeburning.com/2006/03/21/with-a-treo-650-and-a-nokia-770-i-shall-take-over-the-world/