Author: jason
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Paige’s Butterfly Run 2006
Hmm… woke up at 5:30 to the sound of pouring rain. Strolled over to the window; yep. its really coming down. Feels like its gonna be one of those never gonna stop raining type of days. Moved over to the computer to check the radar on weather.com. Yuck, that’s one big cloud stuck over CNY.…
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Really Expensive Cat Toy?
When you’re not using your MacBook Pro for productivity, it makes a fine cat amusement. Aw, how cute. Cute, until that screen gets all clawed up, anyway…
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10k Running Fun
My first 10k for 2006 is now on the books. Last Sunday, I did the Fayetteville 10k Classic. Its a kinda small race, with about 200 runners; but, it was pretty fun, none-the-less. I was pretty familiar with the area and the course from random biking excursions over the years. But, I didn’t remember how…
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SmackBook
Way cool, someone has hacked the motion sensor in the new Macbooks so you can use it to swap desktops. Give your Mac a little tap on the side to go from OSX to Windows. Ha! See it in action. (Via)
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Cool Video of the Day: Parallels on a MacBook
The Unofficial Apple Weblog had a link to a slick video demo of fast operating system switching with Parallels on a new MacBook. They start off in OSX, flip over to Windows XP (where they download and install Firefox, hehe), and then bump over to Ubuntu. I can’t tell if the emulation/virtualization itself is fast…
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Ready to Rock
Just signed up for f’ville 10k and paige’s butterfly runs. The former is next Sunday, the latter is the following Saturday. Gonna be a fun week! Hope the weather is better than than last Sunday. Did 10 miles. When I started off it was gray but brightening up. Mile 2 the sun was shining, and…
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Cool Video of the Day: Upgrading your Macbook
Here’s a YouTube video (from MacWorld, via O’reilly weblogs) that shows removing the battery, RAM, and harddrive from a MacBook; all in about 30 seconds. Cool. Never been that easy in any IBM or Dell laptop I’ve ever worked on.
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Fifth Ave Apple Store Opening Today
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (a daily read) reports that the Fifth Ave Apple Store is opening today. They included a link to an awesome flickr picture set showing just how over the top the store will be. I’d like to stop by, someday… In other Apple news, the new macbook‘s are out. I’m currently trying…
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Cool Web Technology: DabbleDB
Making my bi-weekly scan through CssMania, I spotted DabbleDB. At first, I thought they were just another webified ASP version of Microsoft Access (there are a bunch of them these days, along with some simpler open source projects that attempt to do the same.) They are kind of like Access, but with a lot smarter…
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BigScreenConcerts: David Gilmour
Hmm, I’d say it was about 75% suck, unfortunately. Turns out that BigScreenConcerts are just crappy concert DVDs, shown in 4×3 with a digital projector. If this was supposed high def digital film distribution, they’ve got a long way to go; a lot of pixelation, some motion distortion (watch the drum sticks), and lots of…