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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)
| 11/29/2004 22:24 |
| Here's a passage from www.traveladventures.org that very concisely explains my own attitude towards European travel: "The attractiveness of Europe for me lies in its diversity. There are not many places in the world where so many different cultures live in such a small area, where so many different countries with such different histories all share the same corner of the world, where the origins lie for so many other countries." |
| 11/29/2004 21:58 |
| With new PC parts on the way, I find myself checking FedEx's website every few hours, hoping for an update. If you have bookmarks to specific tracking numbers, you are probably a geek.
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| 11/27/2004 19:38 |
| Uh huh. Sure. Like a Victoria's Secret lingerie model would really have a 5 year old Powerbook. And what is she doing with it? It's not plugged in, it doesn't appear to have a wireless connection... Sheesh...
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| 11/24/2004 23:23 |
| Man, The Onion kills me.
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| 11/24/2004 22:47 |
| Here's the rundown on the parts I'm thinking of buying to replace my current desktop PC: Shuttle SB81P Barebones System Pentium 4 LGA775 530 3.0ghz CPU 1gb Mushkin PC-3200 DDR RAM 160gb Seagate SATA Hard Drive NEC Double Layer 16x DVD-+RW Drive Gigabyte Nvidia GeForce 6600GT PCI-Express Video Card |
| 11/24/2004 22:21 |
| I'm shopping at NewEgg, and I see some memory that has the following tagline: "Purchase this Item and Receive a $-10.00 rebate by mail." So, does that mean if you buy it, you'll owe them an extra $10? When you send away for the rebate, will the rebate agency send you a bill for $10? Hmm... Scary.... |
| 11/24/2004 21:55 |
| The pedestrian crossing signals in the (former) East Berlin have these jaunty little men on them telling you whether or not to walk or stop. They're called "ampelmanchen" for "little fat men." Anywho, the city of Zwickau is changing some of their little fat men to little fat women, on a trial basis.... Hmm...
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| 11/22/2004 19:06 |
| Hey, Dubya, wait yer turn...
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| 11/18/2004 20:06 |
| The publishers of the Molvanian guidebook are back with a new title, their guidebook to Phaic Tan. "For too long now Phaic Tan has been closed off from the outside world, a country visited each year by just a handful of hardy travellers, aid agency workers and hostage negotiators. But now, thanks to this fully up-dated Jetlag guide, everything you need to know about planning a trip to Phaic Tan, birthplace of the trouser press and irritable bowel syndrome, is here."
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| 11/18/2004 10:59 |
My new Dual Xeon Dell PowerEdge 2650 arrived yesterday. I got Windows 2000 Server installed on it yesterday afternoon, then mounted it in my server room rack and went home. When I got to work this morning, I hooked up all the cables and tried to boot it up. Instead of booting, it started stinking. Uh-oh. Something burned up. As fast as I could, I got the thing unhooked and out of the rack. Back into my office, I tried again, and it was definitely dead. In order to be sure that they are covering all the bases, Dell is sending out a technician with the following parts:
Basically everything but the drives.
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| 11/17/2004 22:31 |
| Check out President Clinton's smooth Toshiba Satellite. He's composing an email to Senator John Glenn, who was aboard the Space Shuttle at the time. I wonder what his Internet Explorer Favorites list looked like?
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| 11/15/2004 10:33 |
| Why do football players and commentators use the moronic phrase "make a play"? For example "We needed someone to make a play, and that's just what he did..." or "the difference in the game will be whoever can make a play." It seems that to "make a play" means to run without getting tackled, catch the ball when it's thrown to you, etc.... In otherwords, doing what you're supposed to do anyway. It's not noteworthy when a wide receiver catches a pass (Woo! He really made a play on that one), or a running back eludes tacklers for a nice run (It was 3rd and long, and he really stepped up and made a play!). I don't know if maybe when that phrase was first coined it had a more specific meaning, but it is pretty clear that any real useful meaning has been lost. Then again, there is no shortage of defensive linemen who strut, dance, and boast everytime they make a tackle, because, of course, they made a play. Never mind the fact that they may be down by 24 points, they made a play, baby! |
| 11/15/2004 09:42 |
| We bought a new vacuum cleaner yesterday--the first one we'd ever purchased ourselves. Our only other vacuum had been a garage sale Kenmore that seemed to belch out as much dirt as it picked up. Anyway, we splurged for a Dyson Animal, and it is very impressive. Within a few seconds of starting it up, the clear canister started rapidly filling with dirt, dust, and cat hair. Maybe the secret to the popularity of some vacuums is that they show you the dirt they're picking up, making you feel comfortable that they're working. It did do a nice job slurping all the cat hair off of our cats' couch....
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| 11/12/2004 15:17 |
| Must... have... caffeine....
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| 11/07/2004 18:21 |
| Here's another great article on the importance of travel as a means to better understanding the rest of the world. Rick Steves in the USA Today |
| 11/07/2004 13:29 |
| Here's an underwhelming article about Seattle at MSNBC. To summarize, people here drink a lot of coffee, complain about the weather, and vote Democratic. Surprise!
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| 11/06/2004 10:51 |
| Behold the ultimate breakfast food item.
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| 11/04/2004 18:53 |
| In keeping with the recent travel theme, here's a link to a cool online guide to the country of Molvania. Looks like an interesting place to visit.
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| 11/03/2004 14:24 |
| I got nothin'. I'll just quote from Will Carroll's blog, which is normally a baseball blog. "I’m not interested in discussion, debate, dissection, or much of anything. I did all I could to work for my candidate and he lost. At this stage, it doesn’t matter if it was fair and square or not. He conceded. The popular vote went wildly to Bush. Fine. Now, I’m not interested in “reaching across the aisle.” I’m not interested in “building bridges” any more. I’m not interested in explaining the nuances of educating the masses. I’m somehow numb and angry, forelorn and dismissive. As others are saying, you want him, you got him. The ones of us that didn’t want him, that did what we could to save the country, we’ll be the ones saying “told you so” when kids are dying in Iran, when the budget deficit explodes, when the Constitution is rewritten, when our gay friends are rendered illegal by archaic laws, when they bring back coat hangers as a medical instrument, when they rule the 14th Amendment is as “quaint” as the Geneva conventions, and when somehow we are horribly reminded that Osama bin Laden is still free." |
| 11/02/2004 12:21 |
| I read that 1.8 million people in Florida voted by absentee (mail-in) ballot. Those ballots have been in the hands of election officials for a couple of weeks now. Elderly Floridians die off at a rate of around 455 a day. Makes you wonder how many dead people's votes will be counted.... |
| 11/02/2004 10:18 |
| Vote. There are a lot of places where you can't. |
