Category Archives: /seattle

Fire @ the Kincora…err Manray

By Ken | Published: July 31, 2007
  After hacking on a Koolu today at the office I noticed the smell of something burning. Concerned we had shorted some hardware we frantically sniffed around the office looking for fire. Turns out the back of the building that is home to Kincora and Manray was on fire.
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New Digs

By Ken | Published: July 31, 2007
Alot of things have happened in 2007 with my company. We completely revamped our online store to start of the year, we have added a ton of new products and we moved in to a new address located on pine in Capitol Hill. June 16th marked an entire year since I left my full time [...]
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Food Hacking Lab, dyno-mite

By Ken | Published: November 26, 2006
So I occasionally post some food related things. I think this weekend has inspired me to do some more. I was honored through a string of coincidences have my house be a stop on the 2006 West Coast FoodHacking tour.I was introduced to Marc via a good friend. After discussing the possibility of Hack Lab [...]
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DrmFree.org

By Ken | Published: October 3, 2006
Today is “Day Against DRM” , and in celebration I project that I have been helping bootstrap went live today, DrmFree.org. DrmFree.org is a federated search engine that can help you find music to purchase or download for free that does not use DRM. The basic principle is simple, if consumers are educated and [...]
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Fall Ultimate

By Ken | Published: September 14, 2006
So I finally got off my ass this year and joined one of the Disc Northwest ultimate leagues. Its a “hat league” which has people of varying skill levels. Some how I managed to end up the captian of the Central District team even though I probably know less about Ultimate than anyone else on [...]
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Softball!

By Ken | Published: April 27, 2006
Well we are a little over one week into the Softball Season. So far so good. Our team made a fine first showing, we beat The Garage Team both games of the double header. The Garage took the championship away from us in the final round of the playoffs last year, so this is a [...]
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Hack Night Summary – April 12

By Ken | Published: April 12, 2006
Getting ready to head out from hack night but things still appear to be going strong. So far this evening: -Some update on the status of the Node at the Ambassador building. -Eric Butler’s friend whose name I can’t remember was dissecting an Iriver h320 and replacing the battery with a higher capacity third party Ipod gen 2 battery.  -Discussing [...]
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Mind Camp 2.0

By Ken | Published: April 11, 2006
I briefly mentioned Seattle Mind Camp 1.0 when I attended about 6 months ago. Seattle Mind Camp 2.0 is coming up in just over two weeks. They are seeking to expand their geek diversity , so if you can think someone that should been there last time and wasn’t let’em know. Technorati Tags: mindcamp, mindcamp2.0
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HackNight 3/29

By Ken | Published: March 31, 2006
Better late than never…Some of the hacknight details. Rob discussed the release of Pyramid Linux, a replacement for the aging Pebble Linux that we have all learned to love and loath on embedded hardware. Pyramid is based on a Ubuntu and has all the lastest bits kernel and userland wise. We also renewed the SSL certificate [...]
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SeattleWireless Hacknight Details 02-26-2006

By Ken | Published: February 22, 2006
The usual suspects met up at Redline for Hacknight. Alright, well not all of them.Usually Matt or Rob blog the hacknight details. Rob is in Italy at ICTP eating cake and drinking much espresso I am sure. Matt is busy hacking parenthood. As I mentioned in a previous post we installed the asterisk server. I brought [...]
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