Jan Ole Peek

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Hack your $80 GPS System

GPS systems out there range anywhere from $70 to upwards of $400 depending on the feature sets included. I recently took advantage of the fact that some of the low-end GPS systems on the market run on Windows CE. This leaves open the opportunity to hack the system, gain access to the Windows CE desktop, […]

Witnessing History

It’s not often that one gets to witness history this up close. Obama has just become the first African-American president of the US and I was here to see it all happen. No, I was not at some sort of election party. Yes, I am Canadian and damn proud of it. No, I’m not American […]

Terror-free Gas? Proof of American Stupidity?

I bet people will buy into this, too: Claiming U.S. dollars used to purchase gasoline made from Middle East oil funds terrorism, a group called the Terror-Free Oil Initiative opened the nation’s first “terror-free” gas station. By the way, later in the story it says that the first contributor of this group buys some of […]

My next Cellphone

Screw all the other ones (Fuck Steve Jobs too – hate that guy) but I do want this… Capping literally years of speculation on perhaps the most intensely followed unconfirmed product in Apple’s history — and that’s saying a lot — the iPhone has been announced today. Yeah, we said it: “iPhone,” the name the […]