I just picked up a black berry 7290 device that i will be testing out with the enterprise server – my initial review is that its bas ass the price isn’t.

Other nerd news they can put a chip on a cat brain and see what the cat can see

My link of the week is the coolest idea out there – so cool I actually went to work to build a linux box with a sound card (damn ibook wont work with linux/sound) and I redirected the harddisk data to the sound card, what that means is that you dump the binary data to the sound driver. COOL you get to hear the crap that modems put over the phone line. I don’t know why I had fun with this but it was.

Linux also will help you run OSX on XBOX not cool but new

Also if you’re looking for a PVR project the masters of hacking put out a guide

4^th of july is near time for the K-80’s to shine

spent the weekend at WWU for the 9+ birthdays that are this month. Had a BBQ (pictures) and also played some serious amounts of GTA: San Andreas, Lead foreman Micah and I built the first ever tiered seating system in the living room for the event. Also spent some time at the UP, but most notably of the weekend was Mikes new Mustash

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Wednesday I went to go see a Mariners game over at Safeco Field, got nice seats on first base right at field level. they were sweet its the only way to watch a game. I also got about 40 shots of cereal and am going to make a calendar of her for her mom. the m’s won it in the 12th it was a good game. I wish they would have lost however, then they would have been dead last. Picture of baseball

having problems with my ball

Thursday i went bowling at kenmore lanes in Kirkland. good place got to hang out with Kadi who i haven't seen in a few and conor2 from OR who works at the porn shop from the gnome thing. Bowling Pictures

weekend @wwu and i work in 3 hours shoot.

it was a fun weekend at the park, hung out with corene who is always busy with church and work and caroline who is up at wwu dooin fun things so we just dont see as much any more. Friday went to grasslawn park and i actually swung or swang until i was sick. then Saturday mike and i did some nerd stuff with ibooks then went to a new park in Redmond called pergo park? or something. basically if your in Redmond and know the secret road back by cadman and the brick road the park is there. its a awesome park. i tried to skate board with little success. i did that because my basket ball skills are crap and i couldn't play bump very well. but that park is awesome – mike has a beard now, its about as awesome as we figured it would be. conor also wanted to start golfing again so we went golfing

all pictures here

interesting day for random links.

Mice can now be R/C mice this is fun, also this is a laboratory i hope to work for one day

another day of 14 hour work, thats 28 hours worked in 48, whats wrong with this picture?

i just worked 14 hours!

in other news mike is in town and his sister graduated high school!

in the recent blog world at work it has become a trick to have the site ranking on google. what with Jon’s recent posting on ballcocks making him get hits for such a topic on google. You can always cheat and link up to larger blogs with a trackback to a site like zach braffs blog where you can go check out the new $imdb(chicken little) trailer, or hear him chat about some new movie he is working on.  its not listed in the google how to. but in my log’s appears to make a huge difference to site hits.

The google patent on how they site rank was posted and a clif notes of the article is posted here basically from corbis to st.ankybeer.com you should read this site if your a web admin.

oh yea a quick note about shoes. i found a site that will show you the thousands of ways to lace yoru shoes. so get in the know

ok if you dont know who mike jones is then you havent gone to a club or watched MTV for a month. MIKE JONES. so while correcting eli on his use of “BOBO’s” where he should have had “fo fo’s” I confirmed my statements form this site here. if you want a awesome page to read of the translation of rap music this is gonna make you laugh for a long time. so sit back and check out the rhymes of MIKE JONES

i finished my car and have a off site link to the pictures they are also in my photo gallery

off site link

last night i worked all night due to a broken web page so i didn't sleep much. nothing new going on just goin to link the fans of the blog to some cool pages i found today while waiting for a vendor. new osx patch soon btw. yet another p2p application to get us more files.

Interesting hack of the day….

1. Copy the root directory and the i386 directory of the WindowsXP CD
to your harddisk
2. Extract the Bootsector of your WindowsXP CD
3. Change 2 Bytes in i386\Setupreg.hiv :
a) Open Regedit
b) Highlight HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
c) Menu: File -> Load Structure -> i386\Setupreg.hiv
d) Assign an arbitrary name to the imported structure e.g. “Homekey”
e) Goto HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Homekey\ControlSet001\Services\setupdd
f) edit the binary key “default” and change “01” to “00” and “02” to
“00”
g) Highlight “Homekey” and select menu: File -> unload structure
4. Burn your new XP Pro CD
5. Install WindowsXP as usual. Your XP Home Key will work.

Note: You cannot apply SP2 to such a WindowsXP Pro, so step 1.b)
might be to integrate SP2 in your Installation CD

 How to remove the pesky key from 2000

To modify the Setupp.ini file, open it in notepad. It will look like this:
[Pid]
ExtraData=6376796F71737A76767385CA66F124
Pid=51873OEM

Change the OEM to 270  on the Pid Value so it looks like this:
[Pid]
ExtraData=6376796F71737A76767385CA66F124
Pid=51873270

This should work on most CDs. This will allow you to install Windows 2000 without a serial number, this will NOT work on evaluation versions of Windows, or Windows 2003. after changing the file reburn to a booting cd and install.