About
I’m Brian DeHamer. I lve in San Diego, CA with my wife, two young kids and a healthy obsession with technology. I’m currently employed by Hewlett-Packard Company as a software engineer and work from home full-time.
The title of this blog is derived from the word “hammerspace”:
ham·mer·space -noun: an imagined, extradimensional, instantly accessible storage area that allows cartoon characters to have access to practically any item they wish without impeding the plot.
Hammerspace is that physical dimension that Bugs Bunny reaches into to pull out the mallet/anvil/shotgun which seems to materialize out of thin air or from behind his back (See the hammerspace entry on Wikipedia for more info). Being a bit of a nerd myself, I always appreciated the fact that someone was concerned enough with the physics of cartoons that they felt compelled to invent this concept and then give it a name.
So, from the idea of “hammerspace” and an obvious similarity to my last name we get:
de·ha·mer·space -noun: a non-imagined, instantly accessible storage area that Brian uses to store random thoughts, observations, and tips for later reference.
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I don’t see any other way to sent you a message, Will i was just wondering what type of program did you go in order to work home full time, I think that’s really cool, i’m in college and would love to work home. I love latest tech
Hey Brian,
Came across your site while doing some random Google research! I really liked your blog posting about using Vista’s WinPE environment for building ready-to-install Vista images. Got everything working and the image built but ran into Adobe licensing/activation issues post-install with the image. I will have to revisit this at some point ( I believe the pre-install cleaning of the image Vista registry may be the cause of this problem) – sysprep.exe /quiet /oobe /generalize /shutdown
In any case, I did get the image to install on several of my machines and it will come in handy for future installs. Hope everything is going well for you and Anna!
Take care. By the way, I just joined Twitter (jberlet).
John
Hey Brian,
I recently graduated with a BS in Computer Engineering and wanted to know what you had to do to get to work from home?
Nice pictures of your home office shed. – Premier Tall Ranch – can you send me a jpg copy of your shed pictures to share with my customers in Sacramento? Thanks
Jim Conard, Tuff Shed Sales Consultant.
Hi Brian,
I found your site by searching all over the HP Portal for solutions on how to connect my phone to my corporate email. I found your blog on how to connect an iPhone and it looked very helpful to those with an iPhone. My problem is that I have a Droid…
I’ve made contact with other Droid HP employees via the ClickKnow page and it seems that everyone else has no issues connecting to their HP email. I am at my wits end and am reaching out to anyone that will listen and possibly offer up solutions…
I tried calling HP IT and they refused to help. I’m thinking I must have some crazy security setting on my email that others at HP do not, but I really have no clue at this point…
I’m following everthing listed per the instructions on ClickKnow… here’s the thread: http://publish.gse.mvlabs.corp.hp.com/clicknow/story.php?title=Access_your_HP_mail_from_your_mobile_phone_or_PDA
If you can offer any advice or help me solve this issue, I’d be very greatful… I’d be happy to compensate you for your time (beer, food, gift card, cash…)
Thanks in advance for anything you can do (even a reply telling me you can’t help and/or if you can refer me to someone else).
Regards,
Todd (HP-San Diego)
Brian I followed your steps to have my emails displayed in the iphone (IMAP account). I can download all emails to the iphone, but whenever I try to send a new email via the iphone it displays an error…would you know why this happens?
Hi Brian,
I am pretty sure that you are the person that put together the, “google-voice-sidebar-gadget”. If not, disregard this message. If yes, could you perhaps be kind enough to tell me if this works with SMS texting as well? Google Voice has yet to create a way to modify the favorite contacts list on the sidebar and I was looking for a work around. Maybe you know something?
Sam
did you ever get any insight into using a linksys router to connect via wireless to exchange on an Iphone. Mine was working fine until this week now I have to use 3G to get my email for hp even at home.
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