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The Home Depot Absinthe Fountain

August 3, 2010

In the past few weeks I have men­tioned my “ghetto, Home Depot absinthe foun­tain” to a num­ber of friends.  Given the inter­net mantra of “pics or it didn’t hap­pen” and my dif­fi­culty of describ­ing all of the lit­tle details in words, let me start out with a pho­to­graph: The project arose from my desire to […]

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The business card companion cube

July 10, 2010

A few years ago, I ran across Ned Batchelder’s instruc­tions for mak­ing a busi­ness card cube.  Since then, I have made dozens of them, includ­ing a few con­joined cubes that form Tetris pieces.  It occurred to me the other day (about a year or two too late to hit the Por­tal craze and at least […]

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LJProxy: From friend-locked LiveJournal posts to Google Reader

November 30, 2009

I have been on Live­Jour­nal since 2001.  I have had a Per­ma­nent Account since 2005.  Many of my friends have used it for sim­i­lar amounts of time.  In the past few years, I have migrated my post­ing and read­ing off of Live­Jour­nal.  I do most of my blog read­ing through Google Reader, but still have […]

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Snazzy-Archives, Filtered

November 28, 2009

Note that this post is a dupli­cate of the Snazzy-Archives, Fil­tered project page, here at Net­ninja, and copied into the blog.  It has been inserted here to make it part of the blog time­line, RSS, and what­not so that it gets noticed.  Com­ments are dis­abled on this post but enabled on the project page, so […]

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YOURLS and Tweetie 2 for iPhone">Shortening with YOURLS and Tweetie 2 for iPhone

October 22, 2009

A few months back, around the pos­si­ble demise of the tr.im URL short­en­ing ser­vice, there was a sud­den rise in pop­u­lar­ity with run­ning your own URL short­ener on your own bou­tique URL.  That was when I set up Ninja Me (nja.me) using YOURLS.  At the time, I reverse-engineered the undoc­u­mented API enough to hack Twitter-Tools […]

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Monkey Fists

October 11, 2009

I picked up a few dif­fer­ent col­ors of para­cord, as well as some buck­les, last week at REI.  My hope is to make a para­cord bracelet, except I got dis­tracted along the way by a more chal­leng­ing project.  You see, the week before the REI trip, I picked up a cat toy that is essentially […]

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ARGfest

July 13, 2008

ARGfest (and the accom­pa­ny­ing Dark Knight screen­ing) is about a week away.  I’d really like to be with the rest of you in Boston, but with the new house and bud­gets being what they are, Kim and I need to be up in Seat­tle at a bel­ly­dance event, not tak­ing a sec­ond vaca­tion.  (As you […]

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Ketchup Post

March 2, 2008

I have been doing some house­clean­ing on the lap­top and came up with some pho­tos and videos that were not pre­vi­ously posted. The Chronu­la­tor The Chronu­la­tor is a great lit­tle clock kit.  It’s a dig­i­tal ana­log clock–using dig­i­tal tech­nol­ogy to dis­play the time on ana­log meters.  Appar­ently the guy who makes the kits is here […]

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PDA TODO Envelopes">Hipster PDA TODO Envelopes

June 14, 2007

Some­thing I for­got to post a week or two ago: some Hip­ster PDA “hang­ing envelopes” that I made for work and released as a PDF.  Basi­cally, it is a thin enve­lope that you can stick to the wall (with some­thing low-profile like tape or poster putty–thumbtacks may not work.) They’re great for TODO lists and […]

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XSL">Delicious Library XSL

April 30, 2007

Some recent dis­cus­sions of Deli­cious Library and Library­Thing on Rich’s blog, got me think­ing about a project I started just over a year ago.  It did not progress very far, and I do not think I worked on it much (if at all) since, but I fig­ured I should at least share what I have […]

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Hipster Sudoku

March 26, 2007

Last time, I talked about print­ing or stamps, but I caved in and sim­ply made a smaller Sudoku grid.  The pre­vi­ous grid was 2.75″ (on a 3″ wide card.) This new one is 2.5″ and should fall within the mar­gin of error of con­sumer double-sided printing.

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wcap software release

March 7, 2007

“wcap is a packet snif­fer that dis­plays URLs. It is is an appli­ca­tion that puts your eth­er­net inter­face in promis­cu­ous mode and lis­tens for web requests, dis­play­ing a nicely for­mat­ted list of URLs that have been requested. The infor­ma­tion it obtains is not mag­i­cal and is the same sort of stuff you can get from […]

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