Monthly Archives: February 2005

I just wanna watch TV…

Last week, Sandy and I were watching a DVR’d show. Suddenly, the playback started to skip (kinda like a scratched DVD), and then we hear the awful sounds of hard drive preparing to eat itself. But then, it went away … Continue reading

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New Dave Matthews Band Ice Cream Flavor

Nancies.org reports that Ben and Jerry’s is rolling out another Dave Matthews Band themed flavor, Dave Matthes Band Magic Brownies. Hmm, the name is a little suspect considering usually tries to down play their stoner image. Not sure where that … Continue reading

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Now That’s Some Bad Publicity

Was listening to NPR (on our local station WAER) on the way into work this morning and caught a story about tax preparation programs. One of the hosts who had never used tax prep software before was going through building … Continue reading

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Next in World Domination for Google

Maps. Props to Sean for passing on the info that Google’s Maps application is now in beta. I goofed around with it a little bit, and it seems to work pretty well. The most impressive stuff to me was very … Continue reading

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Interesting Article: Most Common Ways to Kill a PC

Over the years, I’ve been known to fry a PC or two or random component, in my quest for the ultimate PC. Sometimes it was cheap faulty hardware, sometimes it was me being a moron, sometimes it was that the … Continue reading

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