http://fettig.net/weblog The latest on Abe's work Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:16:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I think the Nexus One is a great mobile device (as a Google employee I got one at the end of December and I've been using it as my full time phone ever since). It was officially announced today, but in all the coverage I haven't seen anybody talking about ... http://fettig.net/weblog/2010/01/05/nexus-one-total-cost-of-ownership/ This afternoon I spent a little time playing with Aza Raskin's new mega-meta-extension for Firefox, Ubiquity. (If you're not up to speed on Ubiquity yet, imagine bookmarklets, extended with power similar to Greasemonkey (including the ability to control your entire browser window) and controlled with a lovely command line interface ... http://fettig.net/weblog/2008/08/27/ubiquity/ A few days ago my iPhone stopped syncing correctly. When I tried to sync I would get a message that contact syncing had failed because "the sync server failed to sync the iphone". If I disabled contact syncing, calendar synching would fail with the same error message, and if I ... http://fettig.net/weblog/2008/02/18/iphone-sync-problem-and-solution/ Update, 2/18/08: Thanks to those who have taken me up on this offer so far. I still have a few copies available. I'll update this post when I run out of author copies, so if you're reading this that means the offer is still good. Also, I've been asked if ... http://fettig.net/weblog/2008/02/14/copies-of-twisted-book-available/ I recently started running MythTV on a Linux box I have sitting in my basement. This machine also acts as a home file, web, and print server, and it had a couple of internal hard drives in it already, plus an external USB drive for backup. MythTV soon ate up ... http://fettig.net/weblog/2007/10/16/1-tb/