Category: Tech
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Grady Booch
In a Skype call with Grady Booch. How cool is that? Seriously freaking cool.
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Modern Diesels Rock!
Just a simple observation. Coming back from Leroy (without the bikes hanging off the car), I got the following average MPG in my 2009 Jetta Sportwagen. At 55 mph, I got 48 mpg. At 70 mph, I got 44 mpg. All with no battery, and running on biodiesel. Go TDI!
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Now that’s “old skool”
I had an old 19″ Toshiba CRT TV kicking around, and it was finally time to ditch it on Craigslist. So, I posted it today for $20 (basically enough to be worth the time to post it). An hour later I get a call – an older guy asking “does it have the red, yellow,…
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WordPress for android.
I’m experimenting with the WordPress client for Android, and, at the moment, the quickpress feature for moblogging. Of course, the constraints include: Thumb endurance Images only from the on-board camera. Given that my platform is an HTC evo, neither of those terrible, relative to the alternatives. I suppose that its also an assessment of the…
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Holiday Toys
As I’ve commented before, I tried experimenting with a Linux/Windows laptop, and it wasn’t terribly successful. I realized that I don’t need a lot of power and was really looking at the netbook segment. I was also trying to see if I could make an iPad really work for my main device (assuming that I’m…
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A Grand Experiment
A while back, I was experimenting with Ubuntu (10.04) in a VM (Parallels on the Mac), and thought it was pretty darn good. So, I decided to try an experiment and see if I could use Linux exclusively (instead of my Mac). So, I bought a Lenovo ThinkPad x201 – a well documented and linux-friendly…
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Windows vs Ubuntu
What a loaded title, huh? I'm not piling on to the religious war. Being notably agnostic, I have all the major OSes at my house (Mac, Ubuntu, and Win 7). I did notice something interesting, however. I recently picked up a Lenovo x201 with a Core i7 cpu and 4gb of RAM. It dual-boots into…