A moment of silence for analog TV … … ok, that’s enough. If you didn’t realize it, today was the official (finally!) switchover from analog to digital TV broadcasting. If you’ll recall, the original February 17 deadline was delayed by Congress to give households more time to prepare. What’s strange is that back in early [...]
Archive of entries posted in June 2009
If you’re trying to sell me something …
… you really should know the product! I just got cold-called at work by a gentleman with an Indian accent: “Sir, I am calling on behalf of SAP because you are qualified to receive a free white paper about SAP and how …” Since my primary focus is PeopleSoft system administration and development I am [...]
Vizio VECO320L 32″ LCD HDTV
We’ve been transforming our guest bedroom into a combination guest bedroom/exercise/game room. The TV in that room was an old silver 13″ Magnavox tube that just wasn’t going to work for playing Rock Band 2 on the Wii, so I started shopping for a new flat screen television. While I wasn’t specifically looking for a [...]
Mint-Eee fresh
How many more Eee puns can I come up with for my blog posts? The Windows 7 release candidate just wasn’t cutting it for me on my EeePC 900A. It looked nice, but Windows is just not meant to be crammed into 4gb of hard drive space. Even after vLite’ing the install I barely had [...]
WIJFR: The Bellmaker
Vicious Foxwolf, Urgan Nagru–a fox who long ago discovered the body of a wolf and skinned it to wear as his own–is holding the young Mariel and Dandin captive. The pair are at the mercy of the evil despot and have only one hope of survival. But can they really count on the legendary freedom [...]
