Author: jason
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TikiUSB?
Whoa, this is pretty cool. A tiki shaped USB drive. How cool is that? They’re a little pricey, but they’re hand made. Probably no more expensive than a one made by a street vendor in Maui. Don’t be the last on your block to get yours.
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Building your own DVR, Part I
In my last blog, I brought you up to date on the hell that is dealing with Time Warner Cable for service. In the comments, my pal Sean was surprised that I didn’t just dump the Time Warner DVR and buy my own. I don’t think I’d buy a dedicate DVR myself (like one from…
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I just wanna watch TV… Part II
So in the last installment, I was left with a HD cable converter, and a charge to keep calling Time Warner Cable to inquire if they had any HD DVR boxes available. So, Thursday I give them a call. I give them all the background and they put me on hold trying to figure out…
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Quote of the Day
Was listening to All Things Considered on the way home and they had an article about the Westminister Kennel Club Dog show (includes audio), and one of the judges had this to say about the Best in Show winner: She just did everything right, it was not an easy decision, but there’s just something about…
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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 and all was right in the world again. Then Saturday morning, I fire up the…
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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 leaves their original DMB inspired flavor, One Sweet Whirled. Its not listed on the Ben…
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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 a return in Turbo Tax. When it got to the part about dependents, he said…
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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 fast updates on zoom and the ability to pan directly using the mouse. Here’s a…
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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 stars just happened to align at that point in time. Here’s a great article from…
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That thing gotta Hemi?
Jinkies, if the Chrysler 300C wasn’t powerful enough for you, stay tuned for the new SRT-8 high performance version. The regular v8 is rated for 340Hp (for reference, that’s twice as much as my Passat has already), the SRT-8 will be 425Hp. Gulp! I heard rumors a while back that they were supposed to do…