http://blog.nonmundane.org Tech discussion and thoughts on the digital lifestyle Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:47:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Since the beginning of Feburary 2008 I have been in the unique position to both own an imported Nokia N82 Symbian-based smartphone as well as have access to the beta trial for a new application and website that utilizes the platforms hardware and software potential and is called Qik. Based ... http://blog.nonmundane.org/archives/2008/04/29/adventures-in-qikking/ FEAR IT! All of the information can be found on the Evite which is here: Evite for Dan's 32nd Birthday Party! The important thing to remember is that it is THIS WEEK on SATURDAY. I have email addresses for a lot of you people, but not all of you so I have posted ... http://blog.nonmundane.org/archives/2008/04/23/my-32nd-birthday-party-approaches/ I know I haven't posted in a while here but that is going to be changing soon. Life has been pretty busy, but this is for good reasons. Things are getting done and progress has been made. After all, I did graduate! In the meantime, the Nonmundane.org server has moved ... http://blog.nonmundane.org/archives/2008/04/22/bloody-vikings/ I'm in San Francisco, CA at the 2008 RSA security conference this week and have been getting my bearings around here. This is the first time I've ever been to Moscone Center or the Metreon and so far its all pretty snazzy. Beautiful view of the city skyline from the ... http://blog.nonmundane.org/archives/2008/04/07/even-security-people-need-single-signon/ This year I am hanging out with some friends of mine up in Marina Del Rey for New Years Eve. In case some of you folks dont have plans already or were wondering what is going on then this post is for you. If you are going to show up ... http://blog.nonmundane.org/archives/2007/12/31/new-year-eve-is-comingjoin-me/ Okay everyone, this is the day none of you have been waiting for! I finally got my grade for my last quarter at UCI and I passed all of the classes! What this means is that barring any bizzare unforeseen circumstances (i.e. I owe the uni money somehow, I turn out ... http://blog.nonmundane.org/archives/2007/12/24/i-am-graduating/ Disclaimer - Don't be drinking anything when you scroll to the last photo in this list. I saw the below photo while scanning through Digg while waiting for some software to finish compiling. I think it is pretty telling as to why it seems so many people these days who are ... http://blog.nonmundane.org/archives/2007/12/24/a-cavalcade-of-cool-photos-sfw/ I finally went ahead and upgraded to Wordpress 2.3.1. I ended up having to uninstall the Bad Behavior plugin because, well, it was behaving badly. Namely when I tried to login to the admin page of my blog from home it thought my home IP address was a known bad ... http://blog.nonmundane.org/archives/2007/12/24/wordpress-updated-etc/ I just needed to share what I just learned because I myself can't believe it. Long story made short, I had not received a license renewal notice from the DMV for my cars tags which expired near the end of this month. So, being the bright person I am I ... http://blog.nonmundane.org/archives/2007/09/27/how-can-i-help-you/ I just finished uploading photos from Rich and Michelle's wedding last week to my server. There were a lot of chunkers in attendance and overall it was a lot of fun for everyone involved. One funny thing that happened was the priest presiding over the marriage forgot to conclude the ... http://blog.nonmundane.org/archives/2007/07/25/photos-from-rich-and-michelles-wedding/ Wait, isn't that redundant? Apparently something pretty massive went down at the 365 Main colocation facility in San Francisco at around 1:30pm-ish. More importantly however, this looks like there was a power outage in a large portion of the SOMA district of San Francisco that affected somewhere between 30,000-50,000 people. From ... http://blog.nonmundane.org/archives/2007/07/24/its-as-if-millions-of-emo-souls-cried-out-in-agony/ So for the past month I have been paying for my Yahoo! Personal's account in an attempt to see if the service had gotten any better or see if there were any actual real people using the service. I've been keeping track of the numbers and results so far and ... http://blog.nonmundane.org/archives/2007/07/24/why-i-probably-wont-be-renewing-my-yahoo-personals-account/ So my friends are what you might call the perfect storm of planning r-tardation sometimes. Don't get me wrong, I love them like family but sometimes they do things collectively that are at the same time completely awesome while being totally retarded. Case in point, this past 4th of July it ... http://blog.nonmundane.org/archives/2007/07/11/new-photos-and-friends-birthdays/ I'm going to go see the Transformers. And for those you you playing the home version of our game, apparently none of you people did a damn thing today. http://blog.nonmundane.org/archives/2007/07/04/screw-this-noise/ This must change. If you know of something going on, be it BBQ, party, gathering of awesomness.... WHATEVER. Reply back and let me know, or IM me, or call my ass 562-331-1603. If I don't hear of anything I may just head out to the beach for some sun. http://blog.nonmundane.org/archives/2007/07/04/its-the-4th-i-have-nothing-to-do/