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Goodbye, Canon G2
I think my faithful Canon Powershot G2 digital camera of 2.5 years, courtesy of Academic Computing, has finally bit the dust. =[ It wouldn’t turn on this morning. The LEDs and LCD don’t respond at all when I turn the ring to Camera or Play mode. I wrote to Canon in my distress and asked [...]
Mobiblu DAH-1500 MP3 Player
Just got my 1GB Mobiblu DAH-1500! Wahoo! I got the white one. The smaller one. Thanks for modeling, Jayme and Laura (who maintains that an MP3 player of this size is “ridiculous”)!
Ourmedia.org: Any good?
“Welcome to Ourmedia.org : We provide free storage and free bandwidth for your videos, audio files, photos, text or software. Forever. No catches. Get recognized for your creativity. Make your voice heard. Register now and join the personal media revolution.” Free storage? Forever? Shocking grassroots effort for how the Internet should be, or just a [...]
Dell replaces my motherboard
Dell came out and replaced my motherboard in 10 minutes flat. And all I had to do was write one email to them. No sweat! =] It was neat to get a closer look at the leaking capacitors too before he hauled the old motherboard away. Thanks, Dell! Of course, I’m sure I would’ve much more [...]
Dell bulging capacitors
My at-least-1-year-old computer at work was identified last week as one in a batch of Dell GX270 towers that possessed a critical defect with the capacitors in the motherboard. Like clockwork, it started exhibiting serious problems last Friday, and after 5 random shutdowns while I was just typing a document, I just gave up on [...]
Wifi Criminals
Hmm, hasn’t stuff like this been going on for quite a while now? What kind of precedent is this setting? Man charged with stealing WiFi signal
Gallery Upgrade
Upgraded my photo gallery to v1.5. It’s bigger and better! The homepage stats seem to load a bit faster too. Right now I’m trying to resize the photos in the Jujitsu folder. I can’t believe that by itself is 1.5 GB. The whole gallery is only 10.5 GB (which just won’t fit on 2 DVD-Rs [...]
Rare Items on Amazon
Amazon.com has some pretty rare stuff listed. Check out this amazing book by Frank Donk. And who wouldn’t want a Badonkadonk? Oops, this entry is for nerds. Where’s Triumph the Comic Insult Dog when you need him? Ah, there he is. Somehow I got to all this by reading the May/June 2005 edition of Stanford [...]
Time to Start the Caffeine Habit?
You gotta give it to Canada! Canadian University Offers Spam and Spyware Writing Course Anyway, that has nothing to do with anything, except that I tried Mozilla Thunderbird for a week to try its spam-filtering capabilities, only to run whimpering back to MS Outlook 2003 this week after desperately missing its wealth of features and [...]
Top 10 List for 2005 Prius
Top 5 quirks of a 2005 Prius: -Annoying beep when going in reverse. (What am I, a big honkin’ truck?) -To maximize fuel economy, it actually encourages you to drive slowly (and to play the “let’s see how long I can possibly go without using the brakes” game). -$350 replacement cost for a new smart key. (Haha, [...]
Quick Review: Canon i960
It’s not often that I’ll make an endorsement, but: The Canon i960 photo printer (a worthy replacement of the already-pretty-awesome Canon i950) sells for less than $199 and kicks butt!! Whisper quiet operation! Entire 8.5″ x 11″ photo sheets printed in just over 1 minute!! Prints are vibrant and crisp, using just ho-hum Office Depot photo paper!!! [...]
Goodbye, 1994 Honda Civic LX
My 1994 Honda Civic LX is SOLD. Thanks for your interest. -No matter how many times I vacuum and wash the car, it gets dirty by the next day since I park outdoors. It is a bitter, hopeless struggle. Kind of like showering and doing laundry. -Armor All Cleaning Wipes suck. They leave streaks all over the car! [...]
WordSpy.com
Another fun word website: http://www.wordspy.com/ Now I can use these trendy terms with confidence: mobile speed bump, furkid, drink the Kool-Aid, crackberry, information environmentalism, nanopublishing, biostitute, jump the shark, undecorating, bridezilla, manscaping, carbon neutral, butt call, egosurfing, spim, IMS. And if you want to find a way to get your old email into Gmail, try http://www.marklyon.org/gmail/ [...]
First Look: Spymac.com
Is this for real? http://www.spymac.com/ Do I really want to trust a service that has the word SPY *and* MAC in it? Hmm… Free membership includes 1 GB email account, 350 MB combined storage, personal blog, forum access, etc… Um, check it out! (And let me know what happens.)
Google Toolbar
Wow, I’m really liking the Google Toolbar (http://toolbar.google.com). How did I never consider it before? It’s like always having a Google page up, ready to go. It’s packed with features like “Search Current Site”, “Search Images”, “Highlight/go to search terms”, and “Translate to English” functions – basically a little of everything that makes Google so awesome. Yeah, I [...]
Settlers of Catan
So, I got introduced to this game called Settlers of Catan during a after-work hangout about 3 years ago, and it didn’t seem all that interesting until maybe 2 weeks ago. Suddenly, I discover that EVERYONE plays it — coworkers, random strangers, trusted friends, great spiritual leaders… Something clicked in my head — “You know, I [...]
