I’ve been a bit out of the hardware game, I tend to ignore hardware specs and details until it’s time to actually get a new system, and I’ve been thinking that I should get an idea of what’s out there. I did some surfing today (partially because ScoobyD is speccing out a new system and […]
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If anyone out there has a lot of love and some deep pockets, you can feel free to buy me the Sonos Digital Music System (slashdot commentary, Mad Penguin review). It’s sort of like a high end version of something like the Squeezebox. Any number of wireless players are connected to your computer with it’s
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Not the coolest pic ever, but this image is still pretty neat, if you have 4 monitors stacked on top of each other that is 🙂
Anyone else having really crappy Shaw service lately? I’ve seen my cable modem jump offline and then back on again at least once or twice a day and am getting 13% packet loss sometimes. Hopefully it’s not just me, cause Nothing Has Changed since it was working fine….
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Sunday was a long, hot, and busy day. We got word Saturday night that we would be getting the kitchen from a demoltion that FireflyBro has access to, so all of Sunday was taken up by filling up two trucks, a trailer and a minivan with cabinets, doors, hinges, a stove (which ended up falling
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Today work was nice enough to send me to / let me go to a VMWare conference in Vancouver. Long day, but I came back with some interesting ideas about how we could do our QA process a bit better with some of the virtualization technologies that VMWare has. They also (basically) give away all
Just discovered Kernel Panic, and it’s a definate addition to the morning comic reading list. I started reading some of the archives and so far this one is my favorite (only because it’s true 🙂
Been a while since I’ve said what’s going on in the world of me, and a lot has been happening lately, so here goes…. Personal Improvement I took (after much convincing) the PSI Basica seminar. A lot of different opinions on them are out there, but for me it was really good. I’ve set some
While doing random searches this morning for Olsen Twins news, I saw this story about Eminem poking fun at Olsen twins. “Heavens no!” thinks I, “Whatever has that nasty man done now?” I started read, but the second sentance was this: The provocative rapper has a new video for his song ?[three letter vulgarity for
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Long time, been very busy lately, and will update soon, but in the meantime here’s a couple of my favs from a photoshoot in the garden last night. The color is a little off, in real life the rose is more purple than red, but my whitebalance just didn’t seem to want to believe me,