The Ownage

I have always taken a lot of pictures with my phone, ever since I had a decent camera phone (various Sony models, best was the K850i). I recently upgraded from an iPhone 3GS to the iPhone4. It takes pretty decent pictures, even in low light, and can record at 720p video. Sadly missing though, is [...]

Just walking around used to be such a chore, but today, wow…I don’t know if it’s because I slept all day, or my diet, or losing weight, but I just feel so strong and light on my feet, which should be impossible since Im still near 400 pounds, lol. NEED MOAR EXERCISE! I’m going out [...]

After reaching a critical mass of almost 420lbs, I decided last week that I need to lose weight. I made some relatively simple changes to my diet, and as you can hopefully see by the “Bulk-O-Meter” on the right, it’s making a big and quick difference, 11 pounds in a week Of course someone as [...]

Check this one out Play This Game If you want to skip all the ads and whatnot, you should be able to get it fullscreen via this link: http://www.the-ownage.com/downloads/littlewheel.swf

I made a prediction some time ago that “within 5 years games will no longer use controllers”. It looks more and more like this is coming true, in multiple ways. There is the Microsofts “Project Netal”, which basically uses multiple cameras and voice recognition to do full motion body capture – a fancy way of [...]

Building a Linux powered TCP/IP water sensor

I received my SheevaPlug Dev Kit today from GlobalScale Technologies. I took some pictures of the unboxing. This thing is so small! A 1.2Ghz Ubuntu Linux PC the size of 2 decks of cards – Ownage! Below are links to the pics. Stay tuned for more posts as I fire it up and put it [...]

I’ve decided that I want to do a solar project. I live in Arizona, where we have tons of sunshine, so why not?  I’m not sure what kind of solar project I am going to do, not anything full bore crazy like powering the whole house, I think I will just do something like a [...]

I ordered one of these to experiment with. It’s basically a very small complete computer. It has a 1.2Ghz processor and runs Linux (Ubuntu). It has a single Gigabit Ethernet interface as well as a single USB 2.0 port.  You can find a writeup about it here. The first thing I am going to do is [...]

This graph is a comparison of our July household energy usage. Last year is on the top. As you can see, this years usage for July (bottom) is quite a bit lower, most probably due to the new windows.  All I can say is … w00t!