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I recently upgraded to a
Blackberry 8700g.
Email, cellphone, web
access, and PDA all-in-one.
I love Canon digicams.
I had an S330, then an S230,
now an SD400. They're solidly
made, they take great pictures,
and they're ultra-portable.
I've gone back to the dark
side. I once again have an iPod.
This time it's a 60gb iPod Photo.
The Dell Latitude D620
is my current work laptop.
It's a cleanly designed
Centrino Duo machine with
amazing battery
life and a nice screen.
My home laptop is a
15" Apple MacBook Pro
dual-booting both Mac OS X
and Windows XP. Hooray for
Boot Camp!
I recently upgraded to a 20"
Dell 2001fp LCD. It has great
image quality, and convenient
USB ports on the side.
My current PC is
a P4 system based on an Intel
D915GAG motherboard in an Antec
Sonata II case. 200gb Seagate
SATA hard drive, nVidia GeForce
6600GT video card, SB Live 5.1,
and NEC DVD-RW drive.
Just like with digicams,
I like Canon inkjet printers. My
i860 is quiet, fast, and produces
first-class color prints.
Not much to say here.
If you're an aviation enthusiast
and you have a fast PC,
go buy FS2004 now.
If you get hooked on
flight sims like I did, you'll want
a good flight controller. The
CH Products Flight Sim Yoke USB
is probably the best all-around
flight controller out there.
It ain't cheap, though....
My Current Reading List
Eastward to Tartary:
Travels in the Balkans,
the Middle East, and
the Caucasus
by Robert D. Kaplan
Falling Off the Map
by Pico Iyer
Great Bridge: The Epic
Story of the Building of
the Brooklyn Bridge
by David McCullough
The Polish Way: A Thousand
Year History of the Poles and
Their Culture
by Adam Zamoyski
Best of Europe 2006
by Rick Steves
2008
October (2 entries)August (1 entry)
June (1 entry)
May (2 entries)
February (2 entries)
2007
July (1 entry)June (7 entries)
April (5 entries)
February (4 entries)
January (11 entries)
2006
December (5 entries)November (3 entries)
October (10 entries)
September (6 entries)
August (4 entries)
July (7 entries)
June (5 entries)
May (7 entries)
April (15 entries)
March (9 entries)
February (7 entries)
January (15 entries)
2005
December (4 entries)November (6 entries)
October (15 entries)
September (4 entries)
August (9 entries)
July (18 entries)
June (10 entries)
May (12 entries)
April (19 entries)
March (18 entries)
February (10 entries)
January (20 entries)
2004
December (9 entries)November (21 entries)
October (9 entries)
September (15 entries)
August (7 entries)
July (7 entries)
June (8 entries)
May (10 entries)
April (5 entries)
March (12 entries)
February (18 entries)
January (9 entries)
| 04/27/2004 20:05 |
| When you work in I.T., and you work for a good company, it's important not to make fun of end users' mistakes and silliness. I'm not sure which of those two categories the following tale falls under, but it's too good not to pass along. I get a phone call from someone in one of our branch offices, and she says that their laser printer is printing on both sides of the paper all of a sudden. Hmm... It's an HP LaserJet 1200, which is not a duplexing printer. Before HP started farming out their el cheapo LaserJet design to Konica Minolta, this was their bottom of the barrel. Well, there was the LaserJet 1000, but that is a printer best forgotten. So, I start wondering if somehow they have unlocked some magical duplexing capability in that printer, or if they got a new printer that I didn't know about. Neither of those two possibilities is very likely. In the interest of being nice, I decide to play along. I walk the person through a few things, to make sure we're dealing with the printer and printer settings that she should have. I even do the obvious thing, and ask if it's possible that someone stuck some completed print jobs back in the printer upside down on accident. "No, no, I already looked," was the reply. "I can see that the paper is blank." Alrighty, then. I had the user print another document, and once again, it had other "stuff" on the back. At this point, I've about had all I can take, and I ask the user to take the paper out of the printer, and inspect both sides. Yes, you can guess what she discovered. I have a great job!
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| 04/24/2004 18:11 |
| I just heard a statistic that Americans spent $9 billion on plastic surgery in 2003. Think of all the really cool stuff we could have had for $9 billion, like a functional national railway system (high speed trains, anyone), broadband Internet in every home, health care for a lot of people who didn't have it.... But, alas, no. Instead, sorority sisters got fake knockers that they can show off at Lake Havasu or Mardi Gras, brittle 50-something women got face lifts, and used car salesmen got pec implants and hair plugs. That's just great, everyone. Keep it up!
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| 04/13/2004 20:45 |
| "You read about all these terrorists -- most of them came here legally, but they hung around on these expired visas, some for as long as 10-15 years. Now, compare that to Blockbuster; you're two days late with a video and those people are all over you. I say we put Blockbuster in charge!" |
| 04/12/2004 10:06 |
| Boy, have I been delinquent in maintaining this journal, or what? I've just been really busy at work, so I come home and act like a sloth all evening. Our new building construction is racing along, and now I'm able to work on all the I.T. parts of the puzzle. My server racks, UPSes, KMM unit, shelves, and etc. will arrive tomorrow, and the voice/data wiring will finish up something in the next couple of weeks. The network hardware has been ordered, and we're just working on figuring out the time line to have it all installed. The phone system is in the planning stage, and it should be installed in early June. Other than that, there is fiber optic connectivity, more new PCs, server testing, Wi-Fi installation, cable TV, voice T1s, and a bunch of little things that I can't remember at the moment.
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| 04/06/2004 16:40 |
| This is a cage nut.
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