Brian Jepson’s Weblog

Geekzone’s
M Freitas writes “from San Jose, California, where the Bluetooth
Americas 2003 is taking place. This is a three days event, happening
from 9 to 11 December 2003.”

The Tao of
Mac: “As always, the amount of work involved in making tech
successful is mostly focused in making it unobtrusive. Not quite
invisible, but simple, reliable, and above all, with zero hassle.”

Jeremy
Zawodny: “RSS may not be perfect, but it’s good enough. That train
left the station quite a while ago.”

This
HowardForums thread suggests we might see it in six months.

Who Will Be
Eaten First?; Cthulhu education in the Jack T. Chick style. (via
Boing
Boing)

What were they thinking? PETA rented a billboard in one of the most
Catholic places on earth, and put up an image of the Virgin Mary
cradling a dead chicken. I think it’s beautifully surreal, but I don’t
think PETA was thinking about raising the weirdness level when they did
this. I think they genuinely thought they’d change some minds about meat
consumption. More power to ‘em even if they changed one mind, but they
shouldn’t be surprised that a lot of people freaked out about it.

Shit, though, this gets me thinking. $3000 isn’t bad to blast a
custom bizarre message to the people of Rhode Island and nearby
Massachusetts for a month. I’m thinking of the slogan we used in
college “Don’t Breathe Too Deeply.” It’s damn good advice no matter how
you interpret it…

News Articles:

• PETA billboard with
  Virgin Mary coming down

• Billboard
  Depicts Virgin Mary Cradling Chicken Carcass

• PETA
  Billboard Depicts Virgin Mary Cradling Chicken Carcass

MobileWhack has gone
live–it’s going to be the most concentrated dosage available of mobile
hacks, tips, stories, and tidbits. I’ll be contributing over there as
well, so be sure to check it out for maximum mobile geekery.

I’ve been corresponding with
Timothy Stone about the instructions
for Mac OS X startup items in Mac OS X for Unix
Geeks. Yesterday, he sent me the photo that appears to the right.
Tim was reading my biography, which mentions the coffehouse I ran while
I was there. Turns out that his wife did a stint at the University of
Rhode Island, and has a Cafe de la Tete mug to show for it. What a
small world!

I’m getting ready to upgrade to a 15″ PowerBook, so I’ll be leaving the ranks
of 12″ users pretty soon. To ease the burden on my wallet, I’m selling a few
things. Here are some things I’ve put up on eBay:

• Pocket PC with
  GPS, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi adapters

• Compaq
  Internet Appliance with Linux and Wi-Fi; this is hard to describe, so see
  my post
  from the other day for links.

Here’s some stuff that’s going up on eBay soon, unless someone makes an offer
before then (send mail to stuff <at> jepstone <dot> net):

• Palm m125 with Bluetooth adapter
• Texas Instruments TI-92
  Plus calculator

• D-Link
  DI-713P 802.11b Access Point, 3-port hub, and print server

• Some miscellaneous PC100 SO-DIMMs