New Gadget Shuffle
Musicians have musical instruments, scientists have microscopes, painters have brushes, I have portable electronics. There are a few new devices I’m interested in but on which should I spend my...
View ArticleBlog Me, Photo Me, Again
In reply to my previous post regarding a way to email photos from my cellular phone to my blog, I have found a new and better method. Flickr is a weblog for photos. It supports email posting and can...
View ArticleNew toy
Guess who got a PSP? That’s right, I did. Was it expensive? Hell yes. Does it look sweet? Oh yeah. Was it worth it? Time will tell… Right now I’ve got Wipeout Pure, Lumines and Ridge Racer. Wipeout...
View ArticleFavorite new features in Visual Studio .NET 2005
Work sent me to Microsoft’s Launch Tour 2005 on November 29th at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. It was probably the geekiest event I have yet attended. I mean I went to the AMD...
View ArticleVenture Brothers
I’d like to let the Internet know that The Venture Brothers is my favorite animated series of all time. I know it’s not the most cleverly scripted or well-animated show ever made but I love it. I used...
View ArticleUse SLI
Don’t buy the top of the line video card. Do buy two older GPUs and SLI them. If you’ve got an ATI chipset you’ll need to shop for CrossFire compatible video cards. Let me crunch some numbers for you:...
View ArticleUse del.icio.us
Don’t use bookmarks or favorites in your browser. Do index and tag your bookmarks using some online service like del.icio.us. I used to be a fan of FavoriteSync which would periodically upload all of...
View ArticleUse Media Player Classic
Don’t use Windows Media Player Do use God’s gift to media players: Media Player Classic. I can’t say enough good things about MPC. It’s small (less than 2MB), doesn’t use a huge number of resources,...
View ArticleAmarok
Amarok rocks. I store all my music on a 70GB laptop hard drive in a USB enclosure which I carry in my bag between work and home. Most of my tunes are MP3 but there are a few OGG and WMA albums. I am...
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