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A First Tussle With Linux's iPhone Killer: The OpenMoko Neo1973: "The Neo1973 is the first piece of phone hardware designed to run the open source OpenMoko software platform. Although not yet ready for prime time, the Linux-based mobile OS has hackers excited. Photo: Paul Adams"

Gotta love that a linux iphone rip that you can hack and is not locked to AT&T.

Where do I get mine?

Random stuff I find funny at 1AM.

I find it really funny that there is already an iphone clone out there.

Voltaic Backpack, Solar Backpack, Solar Bag

Voltaic Backpack, Solar Backpack, Solar Bag: "The Voltaic solar bags are mobile power generators, designed to charge your devices without tying you to a power outlet, which makes them ideal for traveling."


Cool toy of the moment? This is a good idea for people like me that are constantly needing to charge their digital camera or their ipod.

Solar Back Pack by Voltaic

I just couldn't resist sharing this with you, we've all had this moment at some point in our lives... just not on camera.

Hey riel, what’s the best way to share all these pics and flip video we have of Email? Create a blog or something? you must know....thanks, n

I get this question a lot, so I've decided to post this answer on my blog so I can reference it for others later.



Sign up for a Gmail account http://mail.google.com (it's free)

Then go to http://pack.google.com

Download Picasa, Firefox with Google Tool Bar (don't grab google desktop unless you have a really good processor)

Next off you go to http://blogger.com - sign in with your gmail address
sign up for a new blog... make a post have some fun.

Go open Picasa on your computer, from within picasa you can hit the big B button to post a photo directly to your blogger account.

From within gmail (top right) or in Picasa, you'll notice that there is googles online photo sharing service,(picasa web) you can also use that to create a slide show, store galleries etc.. here's one of mine : http://picasaweb.google.com/djriel/SnowingInVancouver

Finally, for video storage head on over to google video http://video.google.ca/
you can again sign in with your gmail account and then upload videos there
Again from within the interface, when you're watching your / or any video
there is a blue button on the right side that says "email / blog / embed"
hit that, it'll open up and you'll see a link to post it to blogger
you can then write up some text, and it'll embed it into your blog for you.

All very slick and easy once you get used to it.

You can also use the google toolbar (you might have to go into options to add the B button to the tool bar) to blog directly - so highlight whatever you want in a document or on a webpage, hit the big orange B button ... and it'll pop it into a quick post box for you.

A further cool thing you can do is go into your blogger settings (on the site) and set up a mobile number - they'll give you an address to mail to, you can then mail photo's off your camera phone straight to your blog (text in your quick message and then edit it later on the computer)

Welcome to the new age :)

Everyone loves Riel

Everyone loves Riel
Originally uploaded by DJ_Riel

This is so cool, when your name is Riel, you rarely find your name on anything, let along a chicks wrist... how hot is that, she's got my name tatoo'd on her body! yum!

The XL Blog: Forget Furbie, now there's GenPets

The XL Blog: Forget Furbie, now there's GenPets

Second Life: Your World. Your Imagination.

Second Life: Your World. Your Imagination.: "Have a hand in shaping the future of Second Life! Linden Lab announces the release of the Second Life viewer source code.

* Read the Linden Lab blog post
* Read the press release
* Check out our Open Source FAQ and more"


Anyone on this yet? I can't believe 3 Million people have nothing else to do, but if IBM is setting up shop there, I feel I should at least check it out.

Check out this weird weather happening in Newfoundland.

It's called an "ice push" and I guess it happens when the air is freezing and the ocean not far from it... it's like snow being plowed out of the ocean, very weird.

OK, so I couldn't resist looking for some more music related demo's of this type of multi touch screen technologies.

I don't feel like this approaches the "full interactivity" that I imagine, but it's still a pretty cool fader system.

OK, this has to be one of the coolest computer interfaces that I've ever seen. It makes me wonder instantly... "what could you do with sound if you could interact with it the way they are interacting with images".

Imagine being able to drop on instruments to a flowing loop, bring the pitch and tempo up and down by dragging your hand, slowing it in parts, dropping in new soundscapes... Ummmm