rootflags.org

I hadn’t ever heard of this until today. After reading it, I have to ask myself, just who are the 3 Congressman that voted against this bill and how in the world could they possibly justify it?

Those three Congressmen, btw? Paul Broun and Tom Graves of Georgia, and Ron Paul of Texas.

While there are tons of things I love about my jailbroken iPhone 3G (OpenSSH, VNC, Google Voice), I have a few favorite apps. As I’m cheap, all of these are free, save for my #1, which was well worth the $0.99:

5. Five Icon Dock lets you add an extra icon. Yeah, it seems trivial at first glance, but you can put all four Stacks on your dock, plus still have single-touch access to a fifth icon. Mine has my Phone first, followed by a Stack called “Apple” (with SMS, iPod, Mail, etc), a Stack called “Web”, a Stack for “Games”, and a Stack for “Utilities”.
4. Stack v3 gives you sort of an instant categorization view. I put mine on my Five Icon Dock, which gives me access to about 90% of what I do every day within two touches of any screen.
3. The 3G has a camera, but only the 3GS an newer can shoot video… until now. Cycorder gives you 15 FPS video on your 3G.
2. Apple might have added multitasking to iPhone OS 4, but they won’t enable it on the iPhone 3G. Get ProSwitcher and listen to Pandora or Slacker while running other Apps.
1. If you have iPod/iPhone accessories which aren’t “Apple Certified”, you’re probably tired of the Airplane Mode warning. I found it annoying when I would occasionally use the USA Spec iPod Integration in my MDX, but with the iPod/iPhone alarm clock I got for fathers day, I suddenly found myself anooyed every night. Fro $0.99, Popup Blocker is my sanity savior, allowing me to block dozens of different types of nusiance alerts.

This is how to tell what Marcellus Wallace looks like

Is it spelled kilometer or killometer? I can never get that right…

Or maybe ‘Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology…Better than he was before. Better, stronger, faster.’

All told it took about 48 hours to complete (no, not straight through), but we’re now running 64-bit Ubuntu 9.10 on a new AMD Athlon II 620 (quad 2.6GHz core).  That should make wordpress super fast! <sarcasm intended>.

I was curious just how old our Evanston, IL home is, so last week I visited the Evanston Historical Society.  Checking the Sanborn fire insurance maps, the house at 933 Sherman Avenue dates back to at least 1899 (seen here) and the house at 931 Sherman Ave dates to between 1909 and 1920.  City assessment records show residents going back to 1894, and an assessment done in 1961 shows a property age of 73 years, putting the home at around 1888. I definitely believe that because when running speaker wire through the walls I came across an old newspaper clipping advertising a cure-all tonic “as seen at the 1893 World’s Fair“.

I copied a number of documents, but haven’t had time to fully analyze the property history; however, I’ll update as I figure out more.  Sadly, Evanston achitectural blueprints only go back to 1895, so the city doesn’t have our original floor plan on file, and the historical society doesn’t have any photos of our block.  I’ve posted the relevant Sanborn Maps and other clippings in the gallery.