Pretty self explanatory.

I have a strong suspicion that all of this shit will fade away. A webpage about a website, made for posting things about website posts. Really neat. Anyhow, some idiots who sell ads have this as a checkbox of sorts. Having facebook, G+, and Twitter integrations is important, for some reason. I don’t know…let me blog and get off my lawn. swantron.com/twswantron.com/fbswantron.com/+The Twitter link is my personal feed, which is basically an occasional link to a post (on this goddamned site.) The other two are unused, and shall likely remain that way. Happy interneting.

New office.. …same old tricks

Blow the dust of the multimeter…project time… Mission: resurrect an electronic stapler from the dead. You have to start somewhere.

Now with 100% more sod… Unfortunately, I ordered and slapped down 6500 ft^2, which was short by 15%. Project status: ongoing.

I mean listen, we’re sitting here talking about practice. Not a game. Not a game. Not a game, but we’re talking about practice.

Spam filter for physical mail. Somebody run with it. We must have been inserted into some sort of new homeowners database. Each day, several ‘official looking, if this was 1983 or so’ letters show up in the mailbox. Most of them are attempting to bilk me out of money for ‘special homeowner’s life insurance’ or something of that nature. Thanks, but no thanks. There is a bright side to this spam…they all have return postage. Hence: Fighting the system, one crude drawing of a robot flipping off spammers at a time. You’re all welcome.

Suppress for a few minutes any issues you may have about invasions of privacy. I’m going to talk about something very cool from a technology point of view…namely an Android Spy App. The theme alone may send the paranoid looking for their tinfoil hats, but at the core is something pretty impressive. So, from a technical standpoint, Mobile Spy is awesome. Once the app is installed upon the tracked device, it will run under the radar. It spins a PID and runs undetected. The viewing interface is a live control panel…you can view the remote device’s screen, see the GPS info (overlayed onto a map…you bet) in real-timne, send silent SMS commands… The next level of interaction is even more involved. Via Mobile Spy, you can view the photos on the device…see Gmail messages…see Facebook and other social network activity. You can view the apps installed onthe device, URLs that the browser has hit, and phone contacts. Sort of creepy. Perhaps the two items that have been incorporated into the feature suite involve the exit path. You can initiate a block on any of the applications. This would be useful for something along the lines of blocking Astro File Manager, to keep hidden files and apks from being exposed. The second is nothing short of brilliant…a built-in remote uninstall. End of story. Snap back to reality. This is powerful stuff, and not to be taken lightly. If the usage is legit, this tool is amazingly legit.

First trip out with the new shades… …Vulcan Salute-worthy.

Ever since the announcement of the Google Glass project, I have had an image of Geordi La Forge in my head. Good old Geordi… Honestly, the project is pretty cool. The prototype units are sort of reminiscent of Star Trek, but they serve a unique function. Merging computing and vision is not an easy thing, once the whole ‘rest of the world aside from the text written to screen’ comes in to play. Where will this end up? I have a strong suspicion that the goofy looking units will end up being swept under the rug. The future, my friends, is in the contact lens. The small, not very obtrusive, disposable, can still wear sunglasses, little contact lens. The kicker is the link between contact lenses and high tech stuff that already exists. If vision correction isn’t enough to float your boat, how about Microsoft’s past work to implement a glucose tester into contact lenses. You don’t have to be diabetic to appreciate that. You don’t have to be a Microsoft fanboy to give them credit for a cool project. Swap Microsoft out for Google, who is arguably way more bleeding edge. Add in the fact that the Google Glass project has been declared an early success, and that the contact lens makes more sense down the road. I’m guessing we see Star Trek Glasses, and then shortly behind Star Trek Contacts for sale before too long.