My Integer.

I'm now a proud owner of my very own integer.

6C 86 DF 5E BD 84 6B E2 5D C9 1E 2F FC 69 4C D2

You aren't allowed to know it. Use it. Publish it. Discuss about it. Think about it. It is mine. ALL MINE!

But you can get your own!

Holy Impropable Invention Batman!

Gizmo - A documentary collection of vintage inventions to improve life. I laughed so hard on occasions that my wife started to get annoyed. Amazing flying apparatuses, curious contraptions simply stupefying ... I'm lost for words. Go see it! Click on, there's nothing to see here.

Blood, Bullets, Bombs, and Bandwidth

A short article on internet-contractors in Iraq. It resembles a Bruce Sterling short story.

Ryan Lackey wears body armor to business meetings. He flies armed helicopters to client sites. He has a cash flow problem: he is paid in hundred-dollar bills, sometimes shrink-wrapped bricks of them, and flowing this money into a bank is difficult. He even calls some of his company's transactions "drug deals" – but what Lackey sells is Internet access. From his trailer on Logistics Staging Area Anaconda, a colossal US Army base fifty miles north of Baghdad, Lackey runs Blue Iraq, surely the most surreal ISP on the planet. He is 26 years old.

The whole article.

¡Acrobacia especial de Mexico!

Halcones - motorcycle acrobatics with machines you don't usually see. Panheads that is.

I'm Alfred Bester

I am: Alfred Bester A pyrotechnic talent who put only a small portion of his energy into writing.

Which science fiction writer are you?

Ejecting N800 usb-filesystem from OS X

I recently got a shiny new toy. The Nokia N800. It is a very nice piece of hardware and Os X recognized it right away as two external harddrives. One for each SD-card. The problem is the ejecting the filesystems from finder. When you eject one, it just remounts itself back. And quite fast too.

Even if my work machine is an old and lowly (at least by Moore's Law standards), it was still fast enough to mount the Internal SD-card before it had properly dismounted the the removable one. So after playing the game for a while, I got bored and just plugged the usb-cable off. Only to find out the Os X taunting me for not properly putting away the device.




Then I finally discovered the Proper Way Of Doing Things. It is actually quite simple. When you want to disconnect the usb-cable from your Mac. You just have to:

1. Fire up the Disk Utility (from Applications/Utilities folder)
2. Select the filesystems you want get rid of (see the screenshot)
   
3. And unmount them
   

Screenshot:

Note, you must unmount them, if you eject them they just keep popping back.

Anyone for AppleScript?