Wirehead on Hacking

This will start to contain all of my noises and ruminations about hacking, hardware projects, gadgets and the art of programming.

Little bit o' Droid-lust 2009-10-24 03:18PM

My VX6800 has been falling apart, of late. Since nothing out there was really impressing me enough to spend money, I took it to the Verizon store, complained about how the keyboard wasn't working, allowed the rep to test the phone to verify that it was, in fact, not working, and got a new refurbished VX6800. But then I started hearing about the Droid...

Why I'm not excited about Windows CE and Windows Mobile anymore 2009-10-23 11:51PM

Long time readers of the blog have noted that I've been using Windows CE in various forms for quite a long time, largely by accident or because I like to think even more different than your average Apple user...

Cloud and the Sidekick-opalypse 2009-10-13 10:52AM

One thing that bugs the crap out of me about this whole "Cloud" thing is that there's a few different moving parts that are sold as one amorphous cloudy bloby thing. The details are often hidden from view, at a different level of abstraction, so you don't think of them. On the other hand, I do think about it, and I've spent enough time in the biz that I've seen some of the popular ways to store data in action...

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