jared benedict

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Things that Keep Me Busy

¶ The Future is Yesterday - My blog. Topics include IT, Copyright, Radio, GIS, and more.

¶ Libre Map Project - Frustrated trying to find detailed maps around my house, I've decided to started a project that will hopefully make it easier for others to find maps and figure out how to use them.

¶ Vermont 251 Club - Corin and my mission to document our visit to all 251 towns in Vermont.

¶ redjar photo gallery - I take pictures of the mundane.

¶ Homemade Digital Picture Frame Project - I am slowly attempting to convert a clamshell iBook into a digital picture frame.

¶ Archiving Projects

• SlashCache - A caching application which mirrors web content. Still very early in development.

¶ Radio Projects - I listen to way too much public radio.

• This American Life MP3 Podcast and other random TAL bits
• Scheduled recording of broadcast radio
• Audio Conversion tools
• Radio Schedule and Stream Aggregator (RSSA)

¶ Wikipedia - I occasionally contribute photos and other additions to the Wikipedia project. (My contributions)

¶ Rural Broadband Information - I live in the boonies and am always looking for a way to get high-speed Internet access. Some day it will happen... or we'll just move.

¶ Power/Electricity Related Stuff

• Mini Review of the P3 International Kill A Watt Model P4400

Things that Used to Keep Me Busy

¶ Road Trip 2002 - After graduating from college, Corin, Ogden, and I spent 43 days driving across the US and Canada. I brought my laptop and digital camera along and updated this web site as we travelled.

¶ Automated Community Bike Project - My Hampshire Division III (similar to a senior thesis) was the development of an automated community bike program. I've also created the CommunityBike.org website in order to centralize information about community bike programs.

¶ Grep - While a student at Hampshire College, I implemented various IT related services. All services initially ran off my personal server in my dorm room. I integrated these services into an intranet called grep. When I left Hampshire, I turned over grep to the IT department. They have updated sections and killed off others.

¶ Hampshire Weather Station - While at Hampshire College I developed a web front-end for displaying data from the weather station.

¶ Hampshire Wireless - While a student at Hampshire, I started the Hampshire Wireless project. I raised money and installed wireless access points around campus. By the time I left, nearly all hang outs were covered with 802.11b wireless access.

¶ Five College Network - A central, on-line location for five college groups and activites to colaborate.

¶ Hampshire Mac User Group - Founder of Macintosh user group for the Hampshire and Five College community.

¶ Hampshire Linux User Group - Co-founder of the Five College Linux User Group.

¶ wonka.hampshire.edu - Maintainer of "Wonka", the server purchased for the Linux User Group, Mac User Group, and Windows Game Collective. Currently serving images for the web cam in ASH 221, the home of the group web pages, and storage spot of various software and Linux distributions.

¶ Solitude - Project to build an "independent entity" that does "something" and relies on no outside intervention. I know that doesn't make sense. Read on for clarification.

¶ Project Windmill - A solitude project to power a wireless web server using Hampshire College's windmill.