This page used to be called portfolio. I've relabeled it projects. It seems more fitting. But since I like the definition of portfolio, I'm leaving it here.

Merriam-Webster defines a portfolio as "a hinged cover or flexible case for carrying loose papers, pictures, or pamphlets".

This page is somewhat like that; it is a page that carries the loose web sites where I have documents stored, projects being run, and pictures being displayed. Note that many of the links below take you to other sites I own, operate or fund.

Companies, past and present

Stickman Ventures, Inc. (http://www.stickmanventures.com/) was started in 2007 with my good friend and business partner Gareth Coen and my brother James. We're developing a series of products and projects. We've also found ourselves doing quite a bit of consulting for clients.

J5 Studios (http://www.j5studios.com/) has been a site I've run since early 2000. It houses many of my in progress open source software projects, hardware projects, general photography sets, and my running old chronicle of thoughts and events. Want to know what I was working on in June 2002? J5 Studios will tell you. Want to read some of my undergraduate papers? J5 Studios houses them.

Your Media Coverage (http://www.yourmediacoverage.com/) was formerly a place to make creative film projects. We made a splash with creative ads for Toyotas' Yaris and General Mills' PopSecret brands, I was interviewed for an NHK documentary on used generated advertising and we drummed up a far amount of buzz about pink plastic flamingos.

Software, hardware, and things

It should be noted, that anything rather recently will find it's way onto Github, so you may want to check there.

idlemailcheck is an IMAP IDLE mail check script written in Perl with Snarl notification. I've written two posts (see here and here) about it's inception.

Using Perl, Tor, and cURL to game an IP check voting engine. The article explores the dynamics of using Perl, Tor, and CURL to display the flawed logic behind most online polling engines.

unting a laptop on a Chief flat panel cart using a $6.99 document holder. A hack of necessity with a low barrier of entry, the article details the steps needed to add a cheap laptop holder to a rather pricey LCD cart.

Excel Macro's for MBA's - Several Excel macro's for dealing with special formatting issues, and data analysis. Mostly hacky methods I created for my MBA 612 class, these macro's get the job done.

Camera Sync for USB Mass Storage Cameras - This software makes the viewing/copying/deleting of images on a USB mass storage camera an automated process through the use of Gtk Perl.

Escputil GTK Perl FrontEnd - This software is a front end to Robert Krawitz's superb program escputil, which is part of the gimp-print project. You'll need escputil to use this program, because this script is only a simple Gtk Perl frontend to escputil.

O.R.I.G.I.N.A.L GTK-Perl Frontend - GTK Perl GUI I did for O.R.I.G.I.N.A.L. web gallery, mostly because I was bored one day.

New Mail Count to Cell Phone - Little perl script that connects to your IMAP server, and sends number of new mail messages to your cell phone. To be used via a cron job.

Today's Weather - the XML / CSS way - Little program to use XML weather feeds and place information on a map using PHP and CSS.

Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall / Weblet - Redesign of Charles Steinkuehler weblet package. Not currently maintained.

Building a 35mm depth of field adapter for a digital video camera - Just when you thought it couldn't be done any more hacky, we did it..

Hacking a cell phone battery to fit an MP3 player - Making a LG cell phone battery work with a Creative Nomad Jukebox 2 MP3 player.

Epson PhotoPC 3100Z and Linux - Details getting an Epson PhotoPC 3100Z working with Linux.

Palm m515 on Red Hat 7.2 with usbserial.o - Details getting a Palm m515 working using USB serial on an now ancient Red Hat 7.2 (which I'm still running on some boxes).

Palm III to m5xx bridge - Wiring diagram for how to create a bridge for older Palm peripherals.

Automotive

Installing a tachometer in a 1998 Toyota Tacoma Pickup - Need to see those RPM's? Let's install a tach in Josh's truck.

The Undergraduate Papers

They may be old, but they still have some life (because apparently people keep turning them without my name...but professors keep finding me) so here they are, a fair amount of my undergraduate course papers from Seattle University - Undergrad Papers / Docstoc