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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)
| 08/31/2004 09:14 |
| The Microsoft Wireless Intellimouse Explorer Leather? What the...? This is a joke, right?
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| 08/30/2004 13:34 |
| My office backs up to the CT suite at our clinic. Every time they do a scan, the machine plays a recorded voice that says "Breathe in. Hold your breath." I hear that sound in my sleep now.
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| 08/27/2004 10:12 |
| The big fat empty PowerEdge server chassis arrived, and it's very impressive. It showed up in a giant box, on a pallet, just like a normal server. The delivery guys were required to open the box upon delivery to ensure that there wasn't anyone hiding in the box. You can never be too sure.... |
| 08/23/2004 13:59 |
| At our office, I have a new Dell PowerEdge 2600 server that I need to install in my Dell PowerEdge 4210 rack. Dell servers install easily into Dell racks with what Dell calls "RapidRails." The rails clip into the racks, without use of any tools, then you just set the server into the rails. The result is the server mounted in the rack like a drawer in a dresser. Anyway, the new 2600 that I ordered showed up with the wrong rails. They are rails designed for non-Dell racks, and they require a ton of screws to install. I contacted my Dell rep to find out about getting the correct rails, and he said he'd take care of it. What he found out was that the only way they can ship rails is with a server--specifically a server chassis. Since this was clearly Dell's mistake, they're going to take care of me. They're going to send an empty server chassis, just so their "system" will allow them to send the rails. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with an empty Dell server chassis. It would require proprietary Dell power supplies, and a host of other Dell-specific parts.... Weird. For anyone keeping score at home, Dell sent me Part No. 01T859, when they should have sent 01T839.
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| 08/13/2004 16:52 |
It seems like I always have an extra PC that I'm trying to get rid of. Here's the latest:
$375
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| 08/10/2004 09:31 |
My little Shuttle SK41G server is about to burst from all the stuff I'm storing in it, so I figure it's time to step up to a real server. I had an Intel P4 motherboard, CPU, and RAM sitting around, along with a nice Antec file server case, so I ordered all the necessary parts to build a nice home server. The shopping list looks like this:
I'll have a nice RAID 5 setup with 600gb available space, a quiet power supply, and a DVD burner. Quite a nice server for digital photos, music, video, games, flight sim files, etc. |
| 08/01/2004 20:12 |
| i just returned from a jolly Sunday afternoon of IV antibiotics and ER hijinx. For a few days now, I had noticed that half the toes on my left foot were swollen, tender, and red. Thinking it was either nasty athlete's foot or gout, I wasn't too worked up about it. Finally, my wife had had enough, and hauled me down to the Capital Medical Center emergency room. The first nurse thought it was probably just gout, so I figured they'd just give me some pills and I'd be on my way. Not so fast... Dr. Kaufman said it was clearly an infection, and that if it kept on like it was, I could lose my foot. He ordered immediate IV antibiotics. I'm a wuss when it comes to things pointy and hurty, so I wasn't too happy about his plan. But, you can't really argue with losing your foot, so I agreed. I shook like a leaf when Nurse Bunny tried to get the IV started, but I was really trying my best not to freak out. Unfortunately, the vein "blew out" according to Nurse Bunny, so she gave up and let another nurse try. Nurse Scott, he of the gout diagnosis, took a little more time, and got an IV started in my left hand. It hurt a little, but I was getting by. 45 minutes' worth of Rocephin later, they bandaged me up and sent me on my way--with someone else's prescription for Percoset. Wowee, that's a big mistake. Anyway, I would assume I'm on the road to recovery....
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