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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)
| 12/20/2006 18:33 |
| The big windstorm that blew through last week played havoc with things at work and at home. While we didn't lose power at home, we lost power at all of our offices for varying amounts of time. I had to postpone our winter trip because I didn't know when power was going to be restored, and I didn't know what state things would be in when it did come back. Of course, power came back on just a couple of hours after I cancelled our reservations to fly to Japan.... I called the airline the next day, and for just a few more frequent flier miles, I was able to snag two business class tickets to Germany. We're flying to Munich, renting a car, and exploring the Christmas markets in Germany, the Swiss Alps, Milan, and places inbetween. We leave Thursday morning, and we'll return on New Year's Eve. Here's a picture of the way cool hiking boots I bought for stomping around in the Alpine snow, the Merrell Thermo 6 Waterproof:
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| 12/12/2006 09:58 |
| Here is an interesting article about how consumers need, and Apple should make, an intelligent home media server. Sign me up to buy #0000001.
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| 12/01/2006 21:55 |
| The CEO of Seagate recently gave an interview to Fortune magazine about what his company (who makes hard drives) really does. "We build a product that helps people buy more crap - and watch porn." How about that for honesty? Another great quote: "People worry that newspapers are going out of business. So what? It's the content that's important. No one gives a s**t about the delivery mechanism. Think about mail. You had the pony express, truck delivery, airmail, email. You don't care how it gets to you. I read more now than I ever did, but I get it off my PC. I don't need to go down to the end of the driveway and pick up the newspaper. It's the content that's most important."
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| 12/01/2006 18:50 |
| So now the gubbermint is assigning people scores based on how likely they are to be a terrorism risk. You can't find out your score, and you can't challenge the findings. Damn. I mean, I'd really like to know how I'm doing, and see what I could do to skew the results. |
| 12/01/2006 18:46 |
| CLASS CLASS NEVER RUNS SCARED. IT IS SURE FOOTED AND CONFIDENT. IT CAN HANDLE WHATEVER COMES ALONG. CLASS HAS A SENSE OF HUMOR. IT KNOWS THAT A GOOD LAUGH IS THE BEST LUBRICANT FOR OILING THE MACHINERY OF HUMAN RELATIONS. CLASS NEVER MAKES EXCUSES. IT TAKES ITS LUMPS AND LEARNS FROM MISTAKES. CLASS BESPEAKS AN ARISTOCRACY THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MONEY. SOME EXTREMELY WEALTHY PEOPLE HAVE NO CLASS AT ALL WHILE OTHERS WHO ARE STRUGGLING TO MAKE ENDS MEET ARE LOADED WITH IT. CLASS IS REAL. YOU CAN’T FAKE IT. THE PERSON WITH CLASS MAKES EVERYONE FEEL COMFORTABLE BECAUSE HE IS COMFORTABLE WITH HIMSELF. IF YOU HAVE CLASS, YOU HAVE IT MADE. IF YOU DON’T HAVE CLASS, NO MATTER WHAT ELSE YOU HAVE, IT DOESN’T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE. Apologies for the all caps. It was that way when I found it, and I'm too lazy to re-un-cap it. |
