Just like you, I barely comment anything becuase the code I write is self explanatory and needs no explanation.
... or maybe it's that I'm in a hurry and since it makes sense to me what it is and why it exists, that I don't bother to talk about it.

Once in a while I run into a comment like this that just makes me giggle:

// send the request & get a response
response = GetResponse( request );

Genius insight, there. Thanks.

I'm a huge fan of DD-WRT. I originally installed it about 3 years ago on a Linksys WRT54G because XBox LIVE stopped working. The only device I've ever had an issue with is the Nintendo DSi. For some reason it could never connect.

Yesterday after some pretty bad storms the router was kind of unresponsive and I had to hard-reset it. While reconfiguring it I decided to do two things:

1.) Change the encryption to WPA2 Personal
2.) Add a virtual wireless host that had WEP for the regular DS games, like Mario Kart

The first goal was easy and much to my surprise the DSi connected to the wireless with no issue, I was able to get online and all that fun stuff.

The second goal, not so much. Unfortunately virtual hosts on my router just won't work no matter which configuration I give it. I can never get the network to actuall be created. I am guessing it's just that I have an old router. The previous version of DD-WRT had the same issue. So no WEP for me.

Now you may be asking "Why would you need WEP if the wireless is working on the DSi with WPA2?" Well, Nintendo, in it's infinte wisdom, implemented the wireless configuration for games with very little assistance from the device's OS. Actually, with almost complete independence. I have yet to find a reason why they would have done that. Almost every device I have ever seen handles the network configurations at the OS's level and then the software just uses what is available. Imagine if you had to set wireless up separately for every browser, anti-virus application, online game, photo manager (Picasa, iPhoto) that used the network? Yeah it's kinda like that.

*sigh*

I have been waiting to get iOS 4.2 to see if it could breathe a little life into a 2 year old (2... seriously) phone. I upgraded about an hour ago and I'm here to tell you... didn't do a darn bit of good.

You may see videos on YouTube or whatever.. .but here's the thing.. you can fake it.

Reboot your iPhone, IMMEDIATELY go into Messaging, YAY IT'S SO FAST .... now go to Safari browse a little, one page is fine... now go to another app, any app ... NOW go back to Messaging... LAME, STILL SUCKS. Opening your Camera or Photo app? Get ready for the same 2-8 second lag you had before.

Very disappointed, Apple. Very, very disappointed.

Theres going to be a post here in the near future debating converting to an Android or upgrading to iPhone 4.

I found this very entertaining... and so will you. Actual YAHOO! Chatlog.

Mike: did u see all the stuff about Parallels 6?
Mike: supposed to be a 40% speed increase and a much faster Windows boot
Adam: I only saw a headline or so.  yeah I did see that part
Adam: funny how they are always faster
Adam: like how every Windows is the best windows ever
Mike: Yeah
Mike: hahha
Mike: seems like actually, every OTHER Windows is the best Windows ever.
Win 3.1 <-- worked
Win95 <-- ... uh...
Win98 <--- worked well
WinMe <--- .... where's the bottle of scotch
WinXp <--- Lasted almost 10 years...
Vista <--- like binary diarrhea
Win 7 <--- Awesome
Adam: oh yeah totally
Adam: but when they are introducing them on stage, EVERY one is the best one ever
Adam: to hear MS say it
Mike: Well yeah.
Mike: "With the exception of Windows 7. Windows XP, Windows 98 SE, and Windows 3.1 .... this is DEFINITELY the best and msot stable product we've brought out..."
Mike: just doesn't sound as exciting
Adam: haha yeah true
Mike: remember how complicated Win95/98 got with Win 95b/c and Win98 Upgrade, 98, and 98 SE being of completely different stability nad usually using different drivers.
Adam: crap I had forgot most of that but yeah that did get complicated
Mike: "It says it's for Windows 95"
"Yeah this is 95a Upgrade, you need 95b becuase you need WinSock 2"
".... wut...."
Adam: man that sucked

Admittedly, I think that the jailbroken iPhone is awesome for all the wrong reasons.

I am a huge fan of hacked hardware. I have neither the drive nor the intellect to hack hardware myself so I have to rely on others to hack, then I just use their crap.

I jailbroke the iPhone for a few reasons:

1. Backgrounder. At first I thought this would change how I used the iPhone. Over a short period of time I discovered that I used this very little, then I realized I NEVER used it. Then I deleted it. Background apps sound really great, particularly using Pandora Radio, but for me, I never really found a place for it. Leaving this device, like any, constantly streaming audio over wifi or 3g drains the battery like free pudding at fat camp.
2. Winterboard. Being an artsy-fartsy guy I wanted the iPhone to look pretty. Prettier than it already did. This worked, there’s some battery/performance penalty, but it’s negligible and for day-to-day use it’s unnoticeable. Having 5-icons in the bottom dock is seriously great, as simple as it sounds it’s probably my favourite jailbreak perk. I’m easily impressed.
3. QuickReplySMS. I never bought it, it’s $3. I guess two things influenced my lack of purchase on this one. First thing I don’t trust the iPhone Hack Community with my credit card. I could have taken a big pain-in-the-ass route and used prepaid but that’s just ridiculous. To me, these apps are hacks, not in a bad way, but they are being written by someone who is circumventing an established paradigm to make money. This strains my trust. No offense, I’m sure you’re all wonder and ethical people, but it ain’t happening. Secondly, I don’t know if I will keep the jailbreak, so this may be money in the toilet.
4. Emoji. Turns out, this is already free in the App Store, who knew.
5. Emulators. These turned out to be expensive, the free ones worked ok, but I was not impressed with the performance or the fact that my big, fat sausage-fingers covered half of the screen and these games were meant to use an unobstructed screen. More...

Lets get something straight here: Giving a device the label 'tablet' implies a few things...

1. I'm going to ingest it
2. I'm going to dissolve it in something
3. I'm going to write on it (like paper)
4. I'm going to read from it (like paper)

While your companys 5-inch, no-phone-having device may be amazing, it's not a tablet. It's a Personal Digital Assistant. 'But it's so much more..', no it isn't. It's a palm pilot in 2010. A tablet would be something like, for instance, the iPad, or the JuJu. There are special purpose tablets, like the WACOM drawing tablets... I'd almost call that a drawing 'pad', but I think tablet works there.

THIS (DELL Streak),on the other hand... NOT A TABLET, it's dinky, it fits in your pocket, you technically can read and write on it, but it's not a tablet... it's a PDA, and a mighty bad-ass PDA at that.

I'm officially putting a 7-inch minimum on screen size to be considered a tablet.