Monthly Archives: February 2007

Our latest interest

is digital cameras.  We’re looking mostly at the Canon Rebel XTi.  The dilemma, though, should we buy it at Costco where it is $100 cheaper, or Best Buy where with the instant rebates it’s only $40 more, but we get six months to pay for it and don’t have to wait?  There’s the other thing

Great disclaimer

Please Note: This is beta. It may blow up your house or turn your dog against you. –from blog.linuxinternet.org

Switch between windows

C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe dwmapi #105

In Charlie Booker’s “I hate Macs“, he describes his love for Apple’s new ad campaign – “Ultimately the campaign’s biggest flaw is that it perpetuates the notion that consumers somehow “define themselves” with the technology they choose. If you truly believe you need to pick a mobile phone that “says something” about your personality, don’t

New office

I nearly forgot to mention my new office (errrr…cube).  I’m getting exponentially more work done back here, and it’s also warmer so I don’t leave at the end of the day frozen to the core.  I bought a PCI X1300 for my Optiplex GX620, and combined with my PCI-E it allows me to have triple or

Dystopian fiction

“The stuff that was coming out of him consisted of words, but it was not speech in the true sense: it was a noise uttered in unconsciousness, like the quacking of a duck”  Orwell, 1984