Damon Timm and Rosa Lee

Welcome

Damon Timm is the author of the travelogue and memoir In Search of #6, available to read or download as an audiobook & podcast at damonjustisntfunny.com.

He also has a number of other quasi-talents (circus clown, web mistress, water boiler, guitar plucker) which are readily exploitable; read his bio, check out his recent computer-related blog postings, his witty anecdotes from damonjustisntfunny.com or send him a message.

Recent Blog Postings

Of Britian and Backsplash

During a recent visit to the United Kingdom I was reminded of a charming and altogether little publicized facet of British living, which I had pushed to the nether regions of my memory (for reasons which will become clear). It all came rushing back to me (literally) upon my first visit to the loo [...]

I Want My: Motorola Motofone F3c (CDMA)

This is how it happens: I’m reading this article in the New Yorker and it mentions this cellular phone that one can buy, unlocked (i.e., no twenty-three year contract), for $50. The author, Patricia Marx, describes this Motorola Motofone F3 as an antithesis to the iPhone — it doesn’t even have a color screen — [...]

Happy New Year!

One year has passed since my last posting. It certainly doesn’t reflect good blogmanship that this much time has elapsed, but it does indicate that I have had very little to complain about in this last year. Which is also a bit of a problem — for it can be frustrating having nothing [...]

How To: Configure and Use D-Link DWL-650+ with Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04)

Purpose: with the new version of Ubuntu (Feisty, 7.04) my D-Link DWL-650+ AirPlus WiFi card stopped working out of the box (I believe it has something to do with the ACX drivers and the new kernel; a bug report has been filed). In previous versions of Ubuntu (6.10/6.06) the DWL-650+ was simply plug-and-play. [...]

How To: Network Trash on Ubuntu File Server (NAS) with SFTP (SSH + Fuse) and AFP (netatalk)

Purpose: create a Network Trash System for a Ubuntu Linux file server (NAS). Reason being: by default, files deleted on file server go away permanently (as they do when you run rm from the command line). On my Mac (OS 10.4) and on Ubuntu (7.04) if I connect either via AFP (through netatalk) [...]