Shannon Technology Blog

2006-07-13T20:33:00.000-07:00

No iPods while driving!!!!!!! What Blame Canada (Southpark)

2006-06-16T08:06:00.000-07:00

This is insane they are crazy Blame Canada Blame Canada Blame Canada Blame Canada Blame Canada Blame Canada
(South Park)
I quote from Gizmodo
"What's next? No putting on make-up while driving? No spilling a big beef taco on your lap while driving? This sort of thing may fly up on Canadee-i-o, but here in America we have laws, and those laws say we can twirl our scroll wheels until we crash into a ditch and flip our SUV.
While this "article" actually sounds like someone making something up, apparently Canada is trying to pass legislation against DWI (Driving While iPodding). I probably won't happen, but it will make for some great news affliate coverage ("Some people say that iPods are harmless fun, but our neighbors to the North think they're weapons of mass terror."

once again from South park " Blame Canada Blame Canada Blame Canada Blame Canada Blame Canada Blame Canada "

~Blake
and a little help with the south park thing from a friend~

97% of IT workers feel "traumatized" by their job

2006-06-15T17:59:00.000-07:00

According to a survey released this month by Dublin-based consulting firm SkillSoft, 97 percent of IT professionals feel traumatized by their daily work. Indeed, 80 percent of them get tense just thinking about going to the office.

That explains it all humm.........................................

~Blake Shannon

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New glacier theory on Stonehenge

2006-06-15T17:56:00.001-07:00

A geology team has contradicted claims that bluestones were dug by Bronze Age man from a west Wales quarry and carried 240 miles to build Stonehenge. In a new twist, Open University geologists say the stones were in fact moved to Salisbury Plain by glaciers.

Cool

~Blake Shannon

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Deadly Handheld Coilgun

2006-06-15T17:56:00.000-07:00

â��At last!! A functioning example of the combined wants in a coilgun pistol. You always see posts for this and that, read how if it could do such and such and the inevitable plans on doing whatever."

Hey

~Blake

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The New Fuel That Will Shape the Future

2006-06-15T17:53:00.000-07:00

If, hypothetically, all U.S. cars ran on 100 percent corn-based ethanol, and if one Ivy League professor's analysis is correct, then 97 percent of the entire country's land area -- including real estate now occupied by cities -- would be needed to grow corn.

Cool
~Blake

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The Best Buildings of the Year

2006-06-12T11:38:00.000-07:00

The 11 projects recognized with this year's AIA Honor Awards for Architecture include several museums, as might be expected given the undiminished power of museum mania. But there are also an equal number of libraries and government buildings, a happy sign that municipal agencies are increasingly respectful of good design.

The Clinton Library Is the Coolest
this is cool
via digg

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Top 10 Coolest Travel Gadgets

2006-06-12T11:28:00.000-07:00

Whether your travelling for business or leisure, these gadgets should help make your life easier. Tech Blog lists their top ten coolest travel gadgets.

This is cool I might go and pick up a few!

~Blake~

Via Digg

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UMPCS At Computex

2006-06-12T11:15:00.000-07:00

These UMPCS are awesome.

Here are some pictures.

These UMPCS are awesome.

Hey I have to give credit,
This is Via Engadget China
Engadget is awesome

Computer Viruses Monitored via Dynamic Worldmap

2006-05-29T13:17:00.000-07:00

You'll be able to view Previous Hour, Previous Day, Previous Month, This Year, and Previous Year. Color Coding has 6 Ranges (No Data, Quiet, Low, Medium, High, and Epidemic) This is cool wating till their is an epidimic!

~blake~

via digg

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Apple: Warning Do not put Macbook or Macbook Pro on Lap

2006-05-21T18:03:00.000-07:00

Hope this is not like the " Do not chew on iPod Shuffle"

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Awesome Scanning Pen from Plannon

2006-05-16T18:13:00.000-07:00

This pen has a mini usb and memory card port to export photos.

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Get in Google Notebook beta

2006-05-16T18:09:00.000-07:00

I followed this link and the Google Notebook page came up working. http://www.google.com/notebook/?utm_campaign=gnb&utm_source=us-et-labs

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MTV and Microsoft will take on iTunes

2006-05-15T17:44:00.000-07:00

Microsoft and MTV will make media player together..........humm........

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Irish worlds loneliest web sufers Google says

2006-05-15T14:14:00.000-07:00

This is..............odd Irish google the word lonely the most.....................ok

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Print from your laptop to your wall using a can of spraypaint and string

2006-05-15T12:03:00.000-07:00

This is the coolest thing ever! Two electronics engineering students in Zurich made this simple but intriguing way of printing from their tiny laptop to a wall of just about any size using a can of spray paint, some string, and two tiny motors. It's hypnotic to watch!

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Print from your laptop to your wall using a can of spraypaint and string

2006-05-15T12:01:00.001-07:00

RFID Robot: Someone to Watch Over Me

2006-05-15T12:01:00.000-07:00

This little robot asks as a personal assistant that keeps tabs on the things you take with you in the morning. You can tag your essentials like wallet, keys, cellphone, etc. with tiny RFID tags which provide communication range of a few inches. A pressure sensor detects your presence and the robot will ask you for a quick check of your bag.

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Last minute dodge takes takes Mars rover to safety

2006-05-15T12:00:00.000-07:00

Good news for rover fans - Spirit is safe for the winter. It had been heading for a north-tilting spot - to make sure its solar panels got enough sunlight during the imminent winter to survive - when a sand trap appeared (nice pic). But, despite its bust wheel, it scooted round and it now sitting pretty. Way to go little guy!!

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Robot that "RUNS" on water!

2006-05-15T11:59:00.001-07:00

its actually kinda cool!

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Roboroach betrays real cockroaches

2006-05-15T11:59:00.000-07:00

The robots act like undercover agents that can persuade a group of roaches to come out into the light.

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Top 10 Strangest Robots (Videos)

2006-05-15T11:58:00.000-07:00

TomCat, King Kizer, RunBot and many others. This is a round-up of the top 10 strangest robots. Lots of videos included This is really really cool check out the self assembling chair

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Cool gallery of soviet era gadgets

2006-05-15T11:54:00.000-07:00

This is awesome Look at the folding helicopter

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Funny Joy of Tech Pics

2006-04-22T19:41:00.001-07:00

The Guys at Joy of Tech Rock

The Guys at Joy of Tech Rock

Funny Joy of Tech Pics

2006-04-22T19:41:00.000-07:00

The Guys at Joy of Tech Rock

This is awesome

2006-04-08T18:42:00.000-07:00

Soon their will be a pilgrinage to this. Hint: a huge middle easten attraction

http://flickr.com/photos/bhaggs/124900112/

While on The Topic of Bluetooth

2006-04-03T17:41:00.000-07:00

Copyright tom's networking

This is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want one!
Now if they could make one with EV-DO

The BlueSniper Bluetooth sniffing and hacking “sniper rifle” is truly the Bluetooth hacker’s Bluetooth hack. Equipped with a yagi antenna, and powered by a little bitty Gumstix motherboard, the BlueSniper can detect vulnerable Bluetooth devices up to a kilometer away. A Bluejacker’s paradise.

In addition, the BlueSniper, developed by Los Angeles think-tank Flexilis, will list the services of all open devices it finds, making the devices vulnerable to all manner of exploitation.

According to Flexilis’ John Hering, “With multiple ‘guns’ it would be possible to track a single Bluetooth device as the person walked around. In less than a few minutes, 20 devices were detected all at distances over a half mile away.”

What’s more, all of this sniped data is displayed on the attached laptop, and can be stored for future reference.
Within what seemed like minutes of the BlueSniper’s debut, webpages sprang up with instructions on how to build your own BlueSniper.

Still, not something which Aunty would recommend, as the similarity in appearance to a real sniper rifle is striking, for obvious reasons, and the authorities might tend to ask questions later.

Via http://channels.lockergnome.com

This is Crap

2006-04-03T17:29:00.000-07:00

I should Know I was accused once for hacking someones cellphone and using the EV-DO connection to connect to the internet using bluetooth. Even thought this was a cover up for their own web surfing. The Phone company even said it was crap!

Well Here is the Article!
I quote this from Engadget Engadget Rocks!!!

No disrespect towards the fine police of the United Kingdom or their Sherlock Holmsian skills, but we're mighty skeptical of a recent warning by the Cambridgeshire division that thieves are using their cellphones to locate and steal Bluetooth-enabled laptops from the "boots" of cars. So far all of the evidence concerning this new high-tech modus operandi seems to be anecdotal, as police in Royston are also claiming that a recent a spate of laptop thefts can be attributed to Bluetooth-sniffing crooks, but neither department is reporting how they came to these conclusions. Still, it's probably not a bad idea to shutdown your machine instead of putting it sleep when storing it in the car, toggle your Bluetooth setting to "undiscoverable," or just bring the damn thing along if you're going to be away from your ride for awhile.

and [Via The Raw Feed]

This is crap!! I say this again

Lake = swirling vortex watch before you go into the water!

2006-03-27T15:09:00.000-08:00

Early in the morning on November 21, 1980, twelve men decided to abandon their oil drilling rig on the suspicion that it was beginning to collapse beneath them. They had been probing for oil under the floor of Lake Peigneur when their drill suddenly seized up at about 1,230 feet below the muddy surface, and they were unable free it. In their attempts to work the drill loose, which is normally fairly easy at that shallow depth, the men heard a series of loud pops, just before the rig tilted precariously towards the water.

At the time, Lake Peigneur was an unremarkable body of water near New Iberia, Louisiana. Though the freshwater lake covered 1,300 acres of land, it was only eleven feet deep. A small island there was home to a beautiful botanical park, oil wells dotted the landscape, and far beneath the lake were miles of tunnels for the Diamond Crystal salt mine.

Concluding that something had gone terribly wrong, the men on the rig cut the attached barges loose, scrambled off the rig, and moved to the shore about 300 yards away. Shortly after they abandoned the $5 million Texaco drilling platform, the crew watched in amazement as the huge platform and derrick overturned, and disappeared into a lake that was supposed to be shallow. Soon the water around that position began to turn. It was slow at first, but it steadily accelerated until it became a fast-moving whirlpool a quarter of a mile in diameter, with its center directly over the drill site.

As the whirlpool was forming on the surface, Junius Gaddison, an electrician working in the salt mines below, heard a loud, strange noise coming down the corridor. Soon he discovered the sound's source, which was rushing downhill towards him: fuel drums banging together as they were carried along the shaft by a knee-deep stream of muddy water. He quickly called in the alarm, and the mine's lights were flashed three times to signal it's immediate evacuation. Many of the 50 miners working that morning, most as deep as 1,500 feet below the surface, saw the evacuation signal and began to run for the 1,300 foot level, where they could catch an elevator to the surface. However, when they reached the third level, they were blocked by deep water.

Clearly, the salt dome which contained the mine had been penetrated by the drill crew on the lake. Texaco, who had ordered the oil probe, was aware of the salt mine's presence and had planned accordingly; but somewhere a miscalculation had been made, which placed the drill site directly above one of the salt mine's 80-foot-high, 50-foot-wide upper shafts. As the freshwater poured in through the original 14-inch-wide hole, it quickly dissolved the salt away, making the hole grow bigger by the second. The water pouring into the mine also dissolved the huge salt pillars which supported the ceilings, and the shafts began to collapse.

As most of the miners headed for the surface, a maintenance foreman named Randy LaSalle drove around to the remote areas of the mine which hadn't seen the evacuation signal, and warned the miners there to evacuate. The miners whose escape was slowed by water on the third level used mine carts and diesel powered vehicles to make their way up to the 1,300 foot level, where the each waited their turn to ride the slow, 8-person elevator to the surface as the mine below them filled with water. Although it seemed to take forever to get out, all 50 miners managed to escape with their lives.

Meanwhile, up on the surface, the tremendous sucking power of the whirlpool was causing violent destruction. It swallowed another nearby drilling platform whole, as well as a barge loading dock, 70 acres of soil from Jefferson Island, trucks, trees, structures, and a parking lot. The sucking force was so strong that it reversed the flow of a 12-mile-long canal which led out to the Gulf of Mexico, and dragged 11 barges from that canal into the swirling vortex, where they disappeared into the flooded mines below. It also overtook a manned tug on the canal, which struggled against the current for as long as possible before the crew had to leap off onto the canal bank and watch as the lake consumed their boat.

After three hours, the lake was drained of it's 3.5 billion gallons of water. The water from the canal, now flowing in from the Gulf of Mexico, formed a 50-foot waterfall into the crater where the lake had been, filling it with salty ocean water. As the canal refilled the crater over the next two days, nine of the sunken barges popped back to the surface like corks, though the drilling rigs and tug were left entombed in the ruined salt mine.

Despite the enormous destruction of property, no human life was lost in this disaster, nor were there any serious injuries. Within two days, what had previously been an eleven-foot-deep freshwater body was replaced with a 1,300-foot-deep saltwater lake. The lake's biology was changed drastically, and it became home to many species of plants and fish which had not been there previously.

Of course numerous lawsuits were filed, and they were subsequently settled out-of-court for many millions of dollars. The owners of the Crystal Diamond salt mine received a combined $45 million in damages from Texaco and the oil drilling company, and got out of the salt mining business for good.

No official blame for the miscalculation was ever decided, because all of the evidence was sucked down the drain, but the story described here is the generally accepted theory of what caused this massive disaster.

VIA DAMN INTERESTING

UMPC

2006-03-11T19:50:00.000-08:00

These UMPCs are awesome with a $600-$1000 I want one :-) This looks so cool. I was watching on gizmodo(www.gizmodo.com, This Website rocks ) about the Asus Tablet PC and it had a SD card Slot and firewire, also it had a 3.1 megepixle cammera. This looks cool.

Thanks
And if any of you WANT TO BUY ME ONE GIVE ME A SHOUT OUT !
More Pictures are comming

Sorry Havent posted

2006-03-10T08:44:00.000-08:00

Hey i am back my laptop has been brokin but i am back go to www.start-tv.com and see the new page when you get there click on shows and you will see me and the gadget guy.
Well have a nice weekend.

Airport

2006-02-16T16:39:00.000-08:00

Hey Yall this is a short post because i am in the airport in charleston and i am about to fly to miami well i hope you all have a nice day and please write coments i like your feed back
Thanks
Blake Shannon
Blake.cybercode@gmail.com

WOW sorry

2006-02-15T21:21:00.000-08:00

Wow sorry not posted in so long
I have launched a podcast with some other people. It is called SWATCast it is twicw a month and covers tech I am leaving for Miami 2 morrow and my laptop is broken so i will be "handheld bloging" the miami boat show well happy day after V-DAY
Blake Shannon
blake.cybercode@gmail.com

Digital Un divided comes out on monday

2006-01-22T07:08:00.000-08:00

Yes that is rigt Digital Un divided comes out on monday. Other than that my ibook is still broken and i slit all of my knuckeles open.but i am working on my podcast so look for "The Gears of Gadgets" Soon!

Have a nice day.

Blake Shannon

2006-01-14T09:26:00.000-08:00

I have benn sick all wekk and i still am and my ibook scree died again and a new twit came out and someone stole my flash drive and i went too see the treo and my 500 gig external hard drive failed and i have 3500 new RSS feeds. Wow that is a mouthfull. I think I am going to acctully bye a treo 650 because I like Palm OS (Man am i going to get hate mail that.) Well I missed a lot of css stuff so iif there is any cool stuf e-mail it to me (blake.cybercode@gmail.com)

Well Digital Un divided is still in the works.

Have a nice Martin Luther King Weekend.

Blake

Treo Came out to day

2006-01-05T10:04:00.000-08:00

Hey the Treo came out to day. I am sittting here right now with my friend who has a gatway cx200 tablet pc and i want one so badly this tablet is big and awesome.

treo 700 comes out tommorow

2006-01-04T17:54:00.000-08:00

I am going to get the treo 700 2 morrow this will be awesome i also went out a week ago and bought those shoues heelies the skate shoes those are awesome. I any readers are in CES please e-mail me. blake.cybercode@gmail.com

Sorry I have not posted in so long.

2005-12-30T19:51:00.000-08:00

Hey,

Sorry i have not posted in such a long time. I was in the western part of north carolina and I forgot my airport express. Well tommorow I am going to Jaclsonville Florida with some family to watch the Jacksonville Team Play in the Play offs. I will be hanging out in the Apple Store there. And Shopping for computer stuff like there is no tommorow. Well Happy New Year!

Christmas Was Awesome

2005-12-26T21:32:00.000-08:00

Hello I had an awesome christmas
I got an

1 xbox360
2 Hard Drive
3 Flash Drive
4 Flash Studio 8
5 Adobe photoshop pro
6 Robotics Parts
7 Bluetooth Dongle
8 irobot the movie
9 And a Small USB Hub
I hope You All Had a nice Christmas or Haniqua (I spelled That Totally wrong)
Well have fun with your gifts

New Podcast

2005-12-23T21:01:00.000-08:00

Hello
We are going to launch a new podcast called digital undivide on Start TV. This is a a podcast that help the technology chalanged and a show where geeks can be geeks e-mail me at blake.cybercode@gmail.com if you have any ideas i hope yall like the icon.
Happy Holidays
Blake shannon

MY IBOOK IS FIXED YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2005-12-23T20:36:00.000-08:00

Yes today i fixed my ibook at 10:32 and 55 seconds to night i am back from colorado and i am having fun i now have my ibook back so i can start working with a client. Yes I am sooooo happy !
This is the best 2 days before christmas present i have given my self.

Yippe

Well have a merry christmas
P.S. If any of you want to get your favriote blogger a a accer talet pc mainly the c200
Well thanks if you get me one e-mail me at blake.cybercode@gmail.com
snd i will give you my address.

Thank You
Blake Shannon Yeah I fixed my ibook

RSS Help ? For my life drive

2005-12-21T22:08:00.000-08:00

Hello I need help RSS help.
Well i was sitting here browing blogs and listining to on the run with tablet PCs Podcast. And i heard one of the guys talk about some software for reading RSS on his Treo 650 Since I have a life drive I was wondering if there was a RSS reader plugin or new browser capable of reading RSS on my Life Drive . If Any body knows about any rss readers for plam please let me know. My blog e-mail is blakeshannon.cybercode@gmail.com

Cybercode- That is what mt name on other blogs is such as engadget, Digg, Slashdot and more!

Happy ChristmasHaniKquanzica

Start TV ? Podcast Hosting?

2005-12-21T15:31:00.000-08:00

So at least some of you people in the blogesphere have downloaded podcasts. Some of you might what to make some yourself, but wait were am i going to get the servers and the bandwith. Well now you can start your own podcasts with start tv this is a podcats hosting it host both types of podcasts video, and audio. Start TV is currently not online. But it should be online in the next 2-3 weeks. If you would like you podcast to (mabey) get hosted contact me at blake.cybercode.com

The link for Start TV is www.start-tv.com

Happy Holidays and merry christmashanokquanzica

Laptop Problems

2005-12-20T20:43:00.000-08:00

If you have read the first page of my blog it says that i just got my ibook back after 2 weeks of waiting for it to be fixed. Well I got a new Hard Drive, Super drive ( CD/DVD Burner ) and new ports ( USB 2.0 Firewire , Audio and ethernet,) Well since i got a new Hard drive apple wiped out every thing, Including Tiger (10.5). So now i am running 10.2 . Well since I am in Colorado I can not reload tiger, So i am stuck with 10.2 and i am having trouble. Finder is not running and apps that use the web are not working ( mail , firefix and ichat) . If some one in the blogshere could help me. Well you ask how am i posting this i am using my palm lifedrive. This is very difficult because i am using a Infer Red Keyboard ( I know i shoukd get bluetooth) Well if you could help

Thank You

Blake Shannon

Merry christmas

Bill & Bono

2005-12-19T14:36:00.000-08:00

Yep that is right, Bill Gates ,Bono and Melinda Gates are teh persons of the year.
Yep Gates with his 29 billion dollar charity agency and bono contributing to many agencys. Well Thet deserve it.

New page

2005-12-19T14:03:00.000-08:00

Hello this is the second page of my blog This Blog will Talk all about TECH