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Well, this is exciting: TheOneGreatX.com is blocked in China.
I know it’s probably not a personal thing, I’m pretty sure no Chinese official has ever visited this site, but hey, it’s interesting to note.
Also, let me just say that restricting the information citizens of a country can see is fucked up and plain old wrong. I know that we in America enjoy our free access to such a huge body of information, and that’s great. Remember how lucky you are to be able to do that.
And if you’re reading this and thinking it’s a good idea to block information from people below you, then you, my friend, are a backward little prick and you need to get off your high horse.
Information should be accessible, plain and simple. Especially information published to the public on the internet.
Seriously, people, seriously.

If you want to see if any site is blocked in China, visit www.greatfirewallofchina.org.

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So, today I went to visit Phillip Torrone (writer for MAKE Magazine). He runs a laser etching business out of New York. Having gotten a new phone, I couldn’t resist having my logo etched on it. The whole process is very well done, and Phillip does excellent work. Also around was Limor (owner of Adafruit Industries). You can see my phone on their Flickr feed. Also check out other stuff they’ve done, and visit their website if you want to set up an appointment for yourself. Thanks to Phillip and Limor! Hope to see you guys again soon (maybe I’ll bring something else by).

In other news, go check out this nifty little light I built over the weekend.

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Hello again all!
I’ve been busy working, so haven’t written in a while, but here’s one thing I’ve been working on. It’s a clock based on Piet Mondrian’s Composition with Red, Blue and Yellow (1930). There’s more description below. Enjoy! Also, if you want the source code, send me an email.

Click Here to see the program

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There’s no doubt, the Logitech G15 is a great keyboard. But after a year of use, there is no doubt it’s going to be dirty. Here’s how to clean it

Before we begin, the disclaimer. I will not be held responsible for any damage done to you G15 (or anything belonging to you). And now, on to the article.

The G15 isn’t so different from most keyboards, so this guide could be used to clean any keyboard, really.

First, what you’ll need for this. You’ll need a Swiss Army Knife (or a flathead screwdriver, or anything flat, really), some paper towels, a Dust Buster (or a vacuum), and a container for all the keys. I like to put use one of those plastic organizers with multiple compartments, but anything will work.

First, UNPLUG YOUR KEYBOARD. Seriously, do it. Then remove the wrist rest (if you use it). Just turn the keyboard over and push the little plastic tabs in and rotate the wrist off. Next, using your screwdriver pop off all the keys. This is the fun part, believe me. Really, think about how fun this is going to be. Stick your flat tool under a key and flip it off. Make sure they don’t go flying across the room. Here’s a visual aid:

Put all the keys into your container. I sorted them by row in the container like this:

Once all the keys are off, grab you Dust Buster / Vacuum (the crevice tool works very well) and suck all the crap off of the keyboard like this:

Now that’s that all clean, grab your paper towels. Get one slightly damp. And I mean SLIGHTLY DAMP, like, HARDLY WET AT ALL. You really don’t need much water at all. Wipe off the black part with the wet towel, and before it dries, wipe it off with the dry towel.

Next, put all the keys back on. Then plug the keyboard back in, and enjoy!

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Well, TheOneGreatX.com is back!

We’re now hosted by GoDaddy.com and it’s going much much better.

For those of you wondering, we used to be hosted by Fuitadnet, but quite honestly they are one of the crappiest web hosts around. They’re pricey, have horrible service, and don’t know what they are talking about.

Also, there’s a new article. Read it here. It’s really quite interesting.

Lastly, before you go read that article, on the sidebar, you will notice that all ads have been removed and replaced with a badge for my Flickr photos. This is also replacing the bar of pictures that used to be at the top of the page. Enjoy!

now, go read that article.

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Anyone who’s used Internet Explorer 7 may enjoy the feature of being able to have multiple home pages open in tabs. Well, you can do this in Firefox too. Go to Tools | Options. In the Main Tab, you should see the box where you type your home page. Simply write each URL you want to open in a tab and separate each with a |

For instance, if you wanted your home tabs to be TheOneGreatX.com, Digg, and Google (very fine choices, I must say) your Home Page Box would read:

http://www.theonegreatx.com|http://www.digg.com|http://www.google.com

So there you have it, one fewer reason not to use IE7.

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So, what have I been doing with my time recently? Lots of things, but here’s one. I’m learning how to program in Processing. I’ve only been learning for a couple weeks, but here’s a program I wrote. If you download it, you can save the image.

width="400" height="400" mayscript="true">

To view this content, you need to install Java from java.com

Download the program (with source code) (638kb) here.

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I’ve disabled commenting, because I’m tired of dealing with all the spam. So, if you have any comments please feel free to email me at madison@theonegreatx.com. Also, the naming scheme for article URLs has been changed, so yeah.
New articles soon, I promise.

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Facebook makes it so easy to be conceited. Just check this out:

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Apples aren’t my favorite computer in the world. And Apple isn’t my favorite company in the world. Granted, the new Macbooks are very nice computers, and the operating system is more manageable than it used to be, but I still don’t really like them.
So, why did I go to the Apple Store? Why not? I’d never been, I was bored, and I wanted to see if inverting the colors on a mac really worked. For those of you who don’t know, if you press Control, Command, Option, and 8 at the same time, the colors on the screen.
First off, it was pretty damn hard to find a computer I could use to actually invert the colors. Every single computer was being used. And the second one opened up, someone rushed up to use it. Some lady nearly tackled me rushing to get to one of the new MacBook Pros. I finally got to a computer and tried it. It worked. So I walked over to another one that happened to be free and did the next best thing, directed Safari to TheOneGreatX.com. After about 5 minutes, I walked past the inverted computer. Some lady was there fuddling around in System Preferences trying to fix the colors. After another 5 minutes, the screen was back to normal.
Another highlight of my trip was that some employee asked me to move out of the way because he needed to polish the wall. Nice, Apple, nice.

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