http://www.ostrowalker.com Is it hip to be a triangle? Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:44:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I’m taking part in a neat online sleuthing mission at MacHeist (http://macheist.com) which is scoring me some cool free apps and a bunch of virtual money to apply to a mega pack of cool apps at the end of the multi-week mission. This week I scored a copy of 1Passwd (http://1passwd.com/) ... http://www.ostrowalker.com/?p=86 Apple’s new iPod nano just made my 8-month old mini obsolete. Bummer. Now I’ve seen one in person thanks to my friend Henning who just got one. Lust lust lust. http://www.ostrowalker.com/?p=85 Even though I’m not a very prolific blogger, lately I’ve deferred my need to record links for personal use by posting to del.icio.us. Much less clutter in the blog, easier to search, and still syndicated. Guess I had better rethink the purpose of this blog. My del.icio.us page: http://del.icio.us/joshuao (also in the ... http://www.ostrowalker.com/?p=84 Weirdness. Just doing my occasional vain search for my last name on Google I discovered at the bottom of page 2 a link to a French translation of my blog. It looks like someone tried to translates my wife’s blog into French, but how did it end up as a Google ... http://www.ostrowalker.com/?p=83 Liberated Games has been around since August 2004. Their mandate is to catalog all commercial games that have been released as freeware to the public. Some great classics are in there, including: Wolfenstein 3D Doom/DoomII Quake I/II/III Descent I/II Hexen I/II Duke Nukem 3D Grand Theft Auto I/II I love classic gaming! Unfortunately most of them won’t run on my ... http://www.ostrowalker.com/?p=82 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } 109_0996, originally uploaded by JoshuaO. He’s still a little small to reach the 9 and 3 positions on the steering wheel, but Evan has already gained an appreciation for Recaro seats ... http://www.ostrowalker.com/?p=78 Well, Magmic’s other active co-founder, John Criswick, decided to do his latte budget a favour and pick up an espresso machine for work. Throwing my somewhat selfish suggestion of a Rancilio Silvia aside, he opted to go for a fully automatic, digital offering from Starbucks. The good news is that it ... http://www.ostrowalker.com/?p=76 This is handy and I’ll have to give it a go! http://www.ehow.com/how_115509_silence-squeaky-stairs.html To that end, eHow looks like a pretty handy reference site. http://www.ostrowalker.com/?p=74 John Carmack, of id Software fame, is now blogging. He even put up an interesting posting on his experience and analysis of MIDP development. http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/johnc/Recent%20Updates http://www.ostrowalker.com/?p=73 Google’s Picasa has released a v2 of their already wonderful digital photography management software. It’s better than ever. www.picasa.com http://www.ostrowalker.com/?p=72