A picture I took in Hong Kong recently got featured in the Error’d section of The Daily WTF. They even took the time to blur out the kid’s faces.
Brendan Nee observed some children at a Hong Kong airport enjoying one of my favorite passtimes – dancing on a projected DOS prompt! View the post on The Daily WTF
The DOS prompt reads: “Error on Web Fetching: Could not connect to remote server” over and over on the DOS prompt. Also, I misreported that it was in the Kong Airport, a closer inspection of my image library indicates that it was actually in a subway station near the Kowloon train station.
I’ve been living in a live/work converted warehouse space in San Francisco for a few months now. Along with seven other people, we did all of the work of building out the space ourselves. My brother put together a video time-lapse montage of our progress and posted it on youtube, check it out:
If anyone is planning to visit SF at some point, let me know as we do have a guest room available from time to time.
I’ve been rocking Google’s new web browser Chrome for the last few days and really like it. Browsing craigslist and clicking on email mailto: links I realized there isn’t an obvious way to force these links to open a gmail window in Chrome. Most Windows systems will have the default mailto handler set as Outlook Express.
One option is to install the gmail notifier program. I opted instead for a quick change to the Windows XP filetype settings.
Note that following these instructions will cause all mailto links to open in Google Chrome, even if you are browsing in Firefox, Safari or (gasp) Internet Explorer so make sure you want to use google Chrome as your primary browser before continuing.
In any windows explorer window (except desktop):
* Go to Tools > Folder Options > File Types
* Near the top of the list of filetypes, click on “URL:Mailto Protocol”
* Click on “Advanced”
* With “open” highlighted, click on “Edit”
* Change the application to:
This should all be on one line with no spaces at all. My path was “C:\Documents and Settings\default\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe” To find yours, just right click on a google Chome shortcut (like the one in your start menu), go to “properties” and copy the “Target” field.
En route from Belize City I decided to honor the start of the 2008 Olympic Games by taking the Panda Express challenge. A sign in Houston’s George Bush Intercontintal Airport posed the question: “Which is better, Beijing Beef or Orange Chicken”.
After trying both, I give the gold medal to Orange Chicken with Beijing Beef taking the silver and the Kung Pao chicken not even making it to the final round.
On a related note, a representative from Boingo wifi promptly commented on my last post and stated that they were looking into the firefox compatibility issue. I was impressed by their prompt response (someone at Boingo must monitor Twitter or google) but still surprised that this was the first they had heard of the issue.
On my return trip through Houston I didn’t check into whether or not the issue was resolved, I discovered the free wifi available from the Continental Presidents club you can use if you sit at the Gloria Jeans Coffee between E11 and E12.
I haven’t posted recently, but if you noticed the Twitter feed on this site you probably guessed that I am still alive.
I got back from my world trip, went to google I/O, spent two weeks searching for a live/work space in San Francisco, and since June 11 I’ve been working on extensive rennovations to the warehouse I and 7 others moved into (pictures to come). Between drywalling and scraping adhesive off of the floor, I and my business partner Jed have been ramping up our business, Horne Nee Inc.
I decided to take a last minute trip to Belize with Lisa to meet up with Jed who has been traveling around Mexico for the last few weeks. Lisa found a $360 ticket at 8 PM leaving at 12:30 AM so we packed, hit up a Taqueria for a goodbye burrito and beer and BARTed to SFO.
I had some last minute work I had to get done this morning, and a 3 hour layover at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston. I haven’t jailbroken my old-school iphone since I upgraded the firmware, so I didn’t have a good way to tether it to my laptop, nor did I have an SSH application on my phone, so I had to buy the $7.95 airport wifi provided by Boingo.
I opened up firefox and after sitting through a flash intro on the boingo website, I entered my credit card info. After a confirmation screen, I was presented with the data I had entered and asked to download the GoBoingo Utility, an application that could run on my PC and notify me whenever I am within range of a Boingo hotspot. Clicking “Download and Install” was the only way to continue purchasing internet access.
Only after beginning the download was the page redirected to the page announcing that my credit card info was incorrect. I retyped my info and even tried a different credit card with no success. Noticing how quirky the website was, I decided to open Internet Explorer just to see if perhaps this form couldn’t be completed in Firefox.
After downloading the GoBoingo toolbar for the 6th time (this time in IE) I was given a page showing that my credit card details had worked.
Not only did they make me download unwanted software (note: you just had to download the .exe file, it is up to you to install it) but I had to use IE. What if I was using a mac? Would I have been locked out of wifi at George Bush Intercontinental?
I was able to complete the necessary work before getting on my plane to Belize. If you ever run across a boingo hotspot, make sure you are using IE.
I woke up this morning to check my email and found a very exciting update from Google. I’ll be attending Google I/O, which I was already very excited about. Google arranged for my favorite band to entertain at the reception after the first day: Flight of the Conchords. How the Conchords could fit this into their schedule is a mystery, I wonder how many people at Google are die-hard FOTC fans.
I’ve been rocking 
I woke up this morning to check my email and found a very exciting update from Google. I’ll be attending 
