Author: Brett

Check out the 360 cockpit view of space shuttle Discovery. Drag around with the mouse. Shift/Control zoom in and out.

My router died last night when I tried to upgrade DD-WRT to a newer version. I lost my DHCP server, the LEDs stopped blinking, it was unpingable…the works! Here’s how to fix a failed DD-WRT upgrade relatively quickly. I was using a Netgear WNDR3700v2, but I suspect the recovery process is similar if not identical…

Carl’s Jr.’s TV ads (Hardees for you east-coasters) have always been about showing how big and sloppy their burgers are. For years they’ve been a real turn-off for anyone who likes keeping their hands clean. (me) Something changed recently and in just one commercial their ads have gone from awful to awesome. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28S-1zgkorw

I don’t post here about work very much. I suspect a few customers may be reading this, though. There’s big news in the world of DreamHost this month. We’re bringing on our first CEO. We’ve never had one before. The press release went out today. Check it out if you haven’t already. I wrote it….

The people on the Whited00r project are saints. They’re taking Apple firmware updates and optimizing them to run on older hardware that Apple has long since abandoned. I haven’t tried it yet, but anything that promises to give me back at least some of the speed that I saw in “the old days” on my…

Please enjoy Blue Spruce by Béla Fleck and Edgar Meyer. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtbRWcIVv30 This is my favorite Béla Fleck song. And he’s not even playing the banjo! From Music For Two.

Oyster is a travel site I’d never heard of. They’ve just launched Oyster Shots. Rather than presenting a handful of staged photos provided by the hotels themselves, they send their people to hotels and take their own set of high-res photos. They cover the rooms, pool, restaurants, everything. There are over 300 photos of The…

The Napoleon Dynamite animated series will be coming to Fox in 2012, filling the spiritual hole left by King of The Hill’s cancellation. First look trailer: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scWAETwLojk

A few years ago Orange County consolidated the radio systems used by every Fire and Police Department in the county into one gargantuan, hugenormous radio system called the CCCS (Countywide Coordinated Communications System). Instead of having thirty-four cities each with their own isolated radio systems, the CCCS created one huge, interoperable communications channel across the…

“Going Out of My Head” and “For Me” performed live in 1967 on ABC’s The Hollywood Palace by Sergio Mendes’ Brasil ’66. Complete with an introduction from the man himself, Herb Alpert. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCroGq0G_Gw