… and her name is iPhone. After two days I’m still pretty jazzed about my new iPod Nano, and was showing it’s tininess and sexy screen to a couple of guys as I was heading out of the office. After a couple of minutes a guy wanders over and says “I couldn’t help overhearing you […]
I Have Seen the Future of the Mobile Phone… Read Post »
As I said I just got an iPod, so now I have to deal with managing the music for it in my particular situation. I have the following going on at home right now: A fileserver with approximately 140G of mp3s all nicely tagged via MusicBrainz‘s tools and organized nicely into directories (ie: music player
Thoughts on the iPod and Music Management Read Post »
So after talking, lusting, dreaming, and waiting, I am finally an iPod owner. Today after work I picked up a new silver iPod Nano after deciding to Just Do It and stop my bitching. Yes, I should have waited for the iPod Touch, and yes, I will get one when they are available (money to
I Am An iPod Owner! (Finally) Read Post »
I saw over the weekend that Canadian Tire has the Roomba Discovery (link to CT page on for $100 off of it’s regular price of $399, putting it at $299. Is that a good price (Canadian) for a Roomba? It doesn’t look like this model is around anymore, and is now eclipsed by the Roomba
Dear Lazyweb: What’s a Good Price for a Roomba? Read Post »
Seriously, their humorous little skits in between who-cares awards could really use some work…. I’ve never seen people like John Stewart be so completely un-funny. However, I did find a very funny picture of a mom bird feeding a baby bird to make me feel better. Speaking of TV and movies. Shoot ‘Em Up (trailer)
Wow, The Primetime Emmys are Lame Read Post »
Just read the PCMag iPod Touch review and am really wondering if I should just plop down the credit card at the Apple Store. There is no current ETA for the iPod Touch to appear in Canada, and the official ETA for the states is another two weeks… and and this way I’d be able
Apple iPod touch: Full Review – Review by PC Magazine Read Post »
First of all, I have to give kudos to Henry Wong from Arena-MaxTronic, Inc. for putting up with me asking a bunch of really stupid questions and walking me through reconfiguring the MaxTronic Arena RAID box (similar to this one but an older version). I had been watching this box at work sitting beside the
RAID Disk Box… Engaged! Read Post »
Finally decided to upgrade the ‘ol blog to the latest and greatest and broke all my templates. Grr…. I’ll fix it up tomorrow morning. I wish that Movable Type had a “bring in all default templates for this version” option. I can use the ‘refresh templates’ button, but that only works if you have something
Just so my bitching isn’t restricted to Microsoft, today a fair chunk of time fixing the Arcterex.net webserver after the latest version of Apache that is in the Gentoo repository. Version 2.0 has been installed and working fine for a while, but the config layout seemed to change and a bunch of things moved. Generally
Gentoo Apache 2 Updates Read Post »
So I went out with my Brother-In-Law Sunday to get him a new laptop. His requirements aren’t all that high, basically surfing and checking email, so we picked up a half decent deal at Future Shop, a little HP dual core system. When I started setting it up for him I remembered why I hate
Why I Hate Buying Computers Read Post »