Category Archives: Science and Technology

Science and Technology: Things to do with aged tech: Old smartphones as streaming media jukeboxes

Posted on 17 July 2015 by dlhitzeman

If you’re at all like me, you have a lot of old technology lying about. One of the most common forms of that old tech is in the form of old cellphones, which means for me, smartphones. One of the solutions I have employed for upcycling these phones is to use them as streaming media […] Continue reading →

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Science and Technology: Glitches and Cybergeddon

Posted on 8 July 2015 by dlhitzeman

If you read the kinds of news feeds and websites I do, you can’t help but have come away with the breathless, panicky sense that the cyber world is collapsing in on itself as the result of what has been, so far, three unrelated technical glitches involving United Airlines, the New York Stock Exchange, and […] Continue reading →

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Science and Technology: The LastPass hack and the Internet security dark war

Posted on 16 June 2015 by dlhitzeman

There are those who will see the latest LastPass hack as a vindication of their view that online password managers are a disaster waiting to happen. Frankly, despite some of the hyperbolic headlines,  I believe the concept is still sound. Here’s why: First, it’s nearly impossible for any particular user to manage his internet presence […] Continue reading →

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Science and Technology: Some thoughts on the ado about crowdfunding fails

Posted on 11 June 2015 by dlhitzeman

Or, caveat emptor always applies. If you’re at all like me and follow the crowdfunding world with a sense of excited curiosity, then you can’t help but to have noticed the crop of “how not to get scammed” articles littering the tech writing world in the wake of the FTC ruling over a known Kickstarter […] Continue reading →

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Seeing the world in studs: a Lego journey: Subscale Space Random Build

Posted on 16 May 2015 by dlhitzeman

Here is a space station and space ships in subscale I built from a recently arrived random 1 pound of grey bricks. I used about half the bricks that came in this build. I really need to build a photo box to get better pictures of this stuff… DLH Continue reading →

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