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iPhone unlocked

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:18:25 GMT

That really didn’t take very long.

Link: http://www.engadget.com/2007/08/24/iphone-unlocked-atandt-loses-iphone-exclusivity-august-24-2007/

Newspaper vending machine mod

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:19:45 GMT

This is brilliant.

Link: http://flickr.com/photos/46229495@N00/584140010/

Flickr bugs

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:05:53 GMT

Either it’s really buggy over there today or someone with some mad skillz is still really unhappy about the whole “move to Yahoo! sign in” thing.

This morning I noticed every few pictures in my photo stream “belong to someone else.” The titles and descriptions are correct for the pictures of mine that should be there, and clicking through to the photo page shows everything is okay (though Amy just reported this isn’t always true).

For example this is page 4 of my Flickr stream. There are three pictures near the bottom titled “Blackberries,” “Green,” and “Amy takes a picture.” If you click through to their photo pages (as of 8:52 this morning) you’ll see what I’m talking about.

More Flickr forum threads: 1, 2 (official thread), 3, 4, 5

Update from Flickr (9:55am):

Normalcy should be returning. You can Shift + Reload the view of your photostream to force it, but we’re also flushing the system from this end. It seems that one of our caching image servers was polluted during a network outage in the wee hours. I just want to reiterate, the site was not hacked! It was a bum image caching server.

... and a quick Shift+Apple+Reload on my browser shows that they’ve got it fixed. Good response time Flickr.

Update (2/19): Same bug again.

Target price drop hack

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 18:01:53 GMT

If it ends in “4”—buy it, it won’t get any cheaper

Link: http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/target/target-price-drop-hack-226909.php

Firefox, IE vulnerable to fake login pages? | CNET News.com

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:10:11 GMT

A “reverse cross-site scripting” hack that affects both of the big browsers. Scary stuff.

Link: http://news.com.com/2100-1002_3-6137844.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1009_3-0-10&subj=news

Roomba as MIDI instrument

nicholasjon@nicholasjon.com (Nick) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:31:06 GMT

People with too much time on their hands can make very interesting things

Link: http://todbot.com/blog/2006/05/03/roombamidi-roomba-as-midi-instrument/