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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

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08/26/2006 18:33
I got a call from a woman who lives about a mile from our house, at 703 Foote St. NW. (We're 703 Decatur St. SW). She was calling to let us know that a UPS package with my name on it had been mistakenly delivered to her house, and that I could come pick it up. I drove over and found a box from J&R Music World, with my name, her address, and my phone number on it. I didn't recall ordering anything from J&R; in fact, I hadn't since February 2005. We agreed that we should open the box, and it turned out to be a Sony VAIO Micro PC, an item costing $1800. I hadn't ordered one, and neither had she or her husband. In the payment area on the invoice, it showed my credit card info (with most of the digits Xed out) and my phone number. Something was definitely screwy, so the woman, Mary, called J&R, but their customer service department was closed for the weekend. We agreed that it was clearly my problem, so I drove home with the box, called my credit card, and explained to them what had happened. They quickly opened an investigation into the charge, and assured me that it would be taken care of. On Monday morning, I'll call J&R and ask them to explain what happened. Hopefully, they'll just issue an RMA, pay to have the item shipped back, and refund my credit card. Pretty scary....

08/25/2006 22:35
Yet another cool T-shirt, this is one I've had for about a year.... the line represents the Thames River.... This shirt is probably the coolest souvenir I've ever bought on a trip, and it only cost 3 pounds....

08/22/2006 17:31
Now I'm cool.

08/08/2006 18:07
Dear Asian electronics manufacturers,
I would like to offer my services to your industry as a whole. Translating manuals, diagrams, and other instructions into English is a tricky task. Clearly you could benefit from someone with above average (dare I say superb?) English skills to help clean up said translations. I humbly offer to perform this service for you at a reasonable (by U.S. standards) wage. Enclosed is an example of the kind of thing I can help you avoid, taken from the packaging of an iPod video cable I recently purchased.

Sincerely,
Craig A. Wyzik