Jarrod Trainque

May 28, 2005

How to waterproof virtually anything

A few weeks back I found myself over friend’s house playing poker and having a few beers. This household takes poker real seriously, so naturally we found ourselves playing on one of those green felt-covered poker tables you usually find in a casino. At some point in the evening, after a number of drinks had [...]

May 24, 2005

New Futurama episodes direct to DVD

Got Futurama.com is reporting that there may be new Futurama episodes on the horizon: Over the last week, several sources from within the animation business have indicated to us that there is renewed talk at FOX about bringing fresh Futurama content directly to DVD. We corroborated this with other sources close to the show before [...]

mobile.trainque.com

After discovering mobile hotmail I decided to put together a tiny little personal WAP portal at mobile.trainque.com. This web page, optimized for wireless phone and WAP devices currently includes MSN, Yahoo, Hotmail, Google Search, and Google Local. Use it to: read news read entertainment news get sports scores get financial news read email search the [...]

May 23, 2005

Hotmail Light

Here’s a nice little trick for Hotmail users. Instead of managing your hotmail via hotmail.com, point your browser to http://mobile.msn.com/hm/folder.aspx? and log in with your hotmail username. You will be redirected to a minimal hotmail page originally intended for mobile devices. That means no images, no ads, almost no styling, and none of that MSN [...]

May 21, 2005

Best Prime Time Sitcoms of All Time

Here’s a list that’s been sitting on our coffee table. Feel free to add to it. In no particular order: Simpsons Taxi Cheers Mash Seinfeld Cosby Show All in The Family Wonder Years

May 16, 2005

Kung Fu Hustle & It’s All Gone, Pete Tong

This past weekend I went to the movies twice (a rarity). I saw It’s All Gone, Pete Tong and Kung Fu Hustle. Here’s a little bit about each.

May 13, 2005

More site redesigns

Hey… it’s been what, like a month with the old design? Time to do something new. This theme is more tech-centric, usable, and relies on WordPress managing all static pages. Thoughts welcome.

GTDTiddlyWiki – all your tasks are belong to you

My latest fascination: GTDTiddlyWiki GTD Tiddly Wiki is a GettingThingsDone adaptation by NathanBowers of JeremyRuston’s Open Source TiddlyWiki. I wrote about TiddlyWiki a while back. This particular version is a client-side wiki focusing on managing one’s own projects. It’s a single file and supports saving. I’m running it off my thumbdrive, and using it to [...]

May 3, 2005

The Time Traveler Convention this weekend

This Saturday, May 7th, 2005, MIT is hosting the The Time Traveler Convention where the question of whether time travel is possible will finally be answered. Technically, you would only need one time traveler convention. Time travelers from all eras could meet at a specific place at a specific time, and they could make as [...]

May 2, 2005

Crest Whitestrips: before and after

So I found myself in CVS a few weeks back, shopping for a new toothbrush. It had been forever since I had a new one, and the current one was falling apart and leaving bristles in my mouth on a daily basis. That’s when I realized how huge the tooth whitening solution industry had become. [...]



Next Page »