http://www.adam-amber.com Stuff we find interesting... Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:28:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Every year Lanesboro holds a festival in honor of rhubarb.  It is one of the many small town festivals around Minnesota in the summer and it gives a great excuse to visit one of the best small towns in Minnesota.  The festival itself is pretty small, they have Rhubarb Olympics ... http://www.adam-amber.com/2008/06/07/lanesboro-rhubarb-festival/ About a week ago I saw this post on mythtvnews.com and was immediately inspired to try hacking together a mythtv frontend for our bedroom TV (connecting to the backend/frontend mega box we have on the living room TV). I have been using MythTV on the TV in the ... http://www.adam-amber.com/2008/06/06/turning-an-apple-tv-into-a-mythtv-frontend/ As I mentioned in the last two posts, this morning my GMail account was hacked. In the panic that followed I went through a lot of work trying to check to make sure all my other accounts were ok (Credit Cards, Paypal, etc) while at the same time trying ... http://www.adam-amber.com/2008/06/03/so-your-gmail-got-hacked/ I posted my hail pictures a couple days ago, I also sent some in to the local news and one of them made it on! I admit it isn't the most artistic of shots, but it is still cool to get something on the news :) http://www.adam-amber.com/2008/06/03/my-hail-picture-is-famous/ Well after some searching and Jon finding the right checkboxes on the google help pages to get to the right form I was able to submit and get my email address back (after providing lots of info to google to prove that it was my account).  I apologize for the ... http://www.adam-amber.com/2008/06/03/gmail-account-restored/ I am trying to put this everywhere I can to let people know that it looks like my gmail account has been hacked. I know that there has been some spam sent from it and other messages. Please disregard all email from that address! I am working ... http://www.adam-amber.com/2008/06/03/my-gmail-account-is-hacked/                As you can see from the pictures above we had a large amount of pretty good sized hail today.  Amber was at home during the storm, while I went through the storm twice, once on a bus driving on highway ... http://www.adam-amber.com/2008/05/30/large-hail/ There are people who make charts/graphs/diagrams of music lyric/title representations.  I think this is cool because it requires the interest of small subset of people who listen to popular music and enjoy graphing.  There is a Flickr set here (there are a few really great ones and many that are ... http://www.adam-amber.com/2008/02/29/chart-toppers/ Can you believe that some people got paid to make this? I would have paid to help :) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e9AJVtuCKc[/youtube] The site is a bit annoying, but check it out here I highly suggest getting past the annoying layout. You give it a short musical phrase on a piano and then they ... http://www.adam-amber.com/2008/02/25/i-am-wasting-my-degree/ A very cool concept for a game and proves that there is still a place for innovation in game play not just graphics quality.  I don't want to give any strategy away so give it a try and just click around (after you get the concept down see if you ... http://www.adam-amber.com/2008/02/20/an-inovative-way-to-waste-time/