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February 24, 2009
Dinner was a Triumph
Nise made French Onion soup for dinner - and it was awesome.
Alan would have been proud.
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February 21, 2009
Unpleasant surprises
I figured we might have a cheap solution to Dawnise's media player desires - her Blackberry will take micro SDHC cards, so I figured for very little money, I could turn her phone into a 16GB media player. All I'd need is the aforementioned SDHC card and a copy of The Missing Sync to let her sync the phone with iTunes. I even had a pair of 2.5mm stereo headphones that I bought when I had my Treo.
Of course it couldn't be that easy...
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February 18, 2009
If You Can Read This...
A bit of hijinx with my domain name record this morning left the site unreachable from some parts of the Internet. The full story is longer, and more complex, but hopefully things are back to normal, 'cause I know all three of you just can't wait to read the random crap I have to say.
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February 17, 2009
Resistance is Futile...
Dawnise had another in a long line of run-in's last night with Rhapsody, and I think it's finally going to push us over the edge and convince me to buy her an iPod.
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February 15, 2009
The Drunkard's Walk
After languishing on my reading stack for a week or so, while I worked through Nova, I returned my attention to The Drunkard's Walk the other day, only to find that it was due back at the library on Tuesday.
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Posted by dberger at 5:31 PM
Kindle 2 - Dangerously Close
I think the second generation Kindle is dangerously close to the first e-reader I'd buy, now that they've addressed a bunch of the fugly industrial design (funny how every portable device is converging toward looking like an ipod...).
As far as I can tell there's only one thing missing. I want to be able to borrow books, just like I can from my local library. I'm even willing to pay some nominal charge (or, better, a monthly fee for "unlimited access" to the collection), but I don't see the point of spending as much, or more, on a digital, DRM'd copy of a book as I could on a paperback.
I don't want to own these books - just check them out from the great library in the sky. Oh, and at $359, it seems like some period of free access should be bundled with the reader - 'cause I can buy a lot of books for $359.
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February 10, 2009
NetworkManager FAIL
After fighting with it for several weeks, googling like mad, I'm officially giving up on NetworkManager, 'cause apparently setting a custom MTU is just too damn hard for it.
The UI lets you set a custom MTU, but on reboot the interface is configured with the defaults, pretty much no matter what you do.
Painless networking my arse.
Posted by dberger at 9:35 PM
February 7, 2009
Fast, Light, Cheap
I've been doing more looking at lenses today - online - not living in NY, I don't have the luxury of just wandering into B&H and actually touching them.
Always with the tradeoffs.
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Posted by dberger at 7:43 PM | Comments (1)
Nova
A month or so ago Marc floated the idea of a sort of book club at work, in part to help widen the shared base of work we can draw on to discuss story. We started Nova a few weeks back, and are set to discuss it over lunch this coming Thursday.
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Posted by dberger at 7:23 PM
February 6, 2009
Considering bending the rules
Ok, not "the rules," really - my rules, and not even a very serious one.
Perhaps I should explain...
When I bought my DSLR, I pretty much decided that while the body was a non-trivial investment, that what I really needed to worry about were lenses.
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February 2, 2009
Kludge
The other day I picked up Kludge from the local library. It's a short book, and reasonably well written, but if you've read books like Predictably Irrational, you've read much of the material before, albeit supporting a different thesis.
Posted by dberger at 9:59 PM
People Suck
Coming out of the library yesterday we approached the Subaru from the passenger side and Nise noticed that someone hit the car - dinged the rear passenger door, scuffed up paint on the fender.
It probably happened in the parking garage at work - and this stunning gem of humanity didn't even see fit to leave a note with identifying information.
I know violence doesn't solve problems - but...
Posted by dberger at 3:15 PM
Post-Mortem of a catastrophic RAID failure
Wednesday of last week, I came home to find my three new 1TB hard disks waiting for me, destined to upgrade our ReadyNAS NV+.
Being a hot-plug-online-upgradable-all-singing-all-dancing sort of widget, I followed the recommended upgrade procedure and popped out one of the current 500GB drives, waited a few seconds, slotted one of the new 1TB replacements, waited 'till it started resynchronizing the volume, and went down to make dinner.
And spent the next several days picking up the pieces...
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Posted by dberger at 12:07 PM
February 1, 2009
Represent
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99950176
Posted by dberger at 12:41 PM