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Oh Roku, how I love you

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

I finally broke down and bought one of those 99 dollar NetFlix players from Roku a couple of weeks ago. And I love it.
Granted, most of the streaming content on NetFlix consists of documentaries, crappy 70s science fiction and Gene Autry shows, but you know what? That’s OK. There’s enough watchable content that it makes [...]

New MacBook Pro

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

I’ve been waiting for a while for the new MacBooks to come out since Apple hadn’t really updated the line in any significant way since the they were using the G4s in PowerBooks. After the announcement yesterday I decided to pick up a new MacBook Pro to replace my aging one.
Before I get into actually [...]

New Music (and the Amazon MP3 store is dangerous)

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Back when there were local music stores that used to have albums I wanted to listen to (as an aside, what do kids call albums these days?) I’d routinely go on binges and grab up to a dozen CDs at once. In the past 10 years, with the ready availability of MP3 players, massive amounts [...]

Google Chrome

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

I’ve been playing with the new Google Chrome browser for the past few hours and I have to say I like what I’m seeing so far. It’s pretty obvious where Google is going with this. They’re knocking the browser out of the way, stripping out pretty much everything but the URL bar and a couple [...]

Amazon S3 down.

Sunday, July 20th, 2008

Hey everyone, remember how the Internet is this big decentralized network, with multiple redundancies so that if one piece fails, we can route around it and minimize the impact? It’s really a great way to set up a network.
So stop fucking it up.
Amazon’s S3 service offers cheap storage so that you can host pictures, videos, [...]

Starbucks isn’t all bad. Really.

Friday, July 18th, 2008

It’s always been fashionable to hate Starbucks, and lord knows I’ve done enough of it myself, but the news that they’re closing 600 stores and laying off 12,000 people actually makes me me somewhat melancholy. While I’m usually against monopolies, I think that in addition to the obvious bad they’ve done, they’ve also done [...]

On the relationship between the Internet and its users.

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

For the past 10 years there’s been a growing trend towards posting personal information online, relying on services that you don’t own and have no control over, reliance on being able to do things for free, and getting upset when a company acts like a company is expected to instead of a moral emissary of [...]

Microdermal Implants

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Ever since I heard about microdermals over a year ago I found the idea intriguing. Whenever I’d thought about getting any piercings I never figured they’d look right on me so I just hadn’t bothered with them. Microdermals, on the other hand, can be placed pretty much anywhere so I didn’t have to worry about [...]

NAMM 2008

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

It’s Sunday evening and the sun has set on The NAMM Show once again.
Every year thousands of schoolteachers, metalheads, musicians, businessmen and manufacturers descend on Anaheim California to buy, sell, drink and debauch their way into another year. From 10am on Thursday until 5pm Sunday, the convention center is filled with a cacophony of rapidfire [...]

Restaurant pet peeves

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

A list of things that I’ve experienced at restaurants that have really pissed me off recently:

Just because a table has two dimensions doesn’t mean it’s ok to put 4 chairs at it. This especially pisses me off in Japanese restaurants where you typically get a bunch of small dishes that fill up a standard two [...]

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