Hacking my Blackjack 2 (Samsung SGH-i617)

During my research for the FreeRunner post the other day, I went looking for information on my current phone – the Samsung Blackjack 2 (SGH-i617) – and found a website dedicated to the phone! blackjack2.info is a website in blog format dedicated to hacking up the, you guessed it, Blackjack 2! I was really interested [...]

Brain Computer Interface (BCI)

I’ve been doing a lot more hard core programming and linux administration lately and I’ve come back to a place in my mind that I’ve been before. I feel as if I’m absorbed in the technology I work with, but that my body in it’s current state cannot keep up with the mind when processing [...]

Continuous Integration with PHPUnit and Friends

Well I haven’t blogged lately and I thought I would throw something out there about my current efforts. I’ve been at work doing a lot of PHP stuff lately and I’ve been really unsatisfied with the setup I had. The code I”m working with is mostly legacy PHP 4 code, so I’m rewriting it using [...]

OpenMoko Neo FreeRunner Released

The OpenMoko Neo FreeRunner hardware platform was released recently and after looking at it (finally) I really want one! I was talking the other day with a friend about open standards in the mobile computing industry. I was upset about SMS not having QoS standards in place after dealing with our campus emergency notification system, [...]

Turning the Big 25!

I turn 25 in 10 minutes. Last year at this time I was thinking “I turn 25 in 1 year!” They say that the only thing guys have to look forward to after turning 21 is 25 because we get the holy grail – a drop in car insurance. Well let me tell you, 24 [...]