September 2006 Entries
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Wanted to say that I'm back in NYC and that the San Francisco trip was a big success. It felt like five trips in one, which it was. I attended two conferences, the Future of Web Apps '06 and BEA World. We camped and hiked in Big Sur -- yes, we packed a suitcase with sleeping bags and a tent. We hit up wine country for about an hour near sunset, found a sweet looking villa style place off the main road, did the three Pinot sampler, in-and-out. Oh and speaking of In-and-Out, we definitely did that. I...
This corporate issue laptop of mine is infuriating me on this west coast trip. On battery it operates at 0.8 gHz. There is only 384 MB of memory. I get less than an hour of battery life and startup time is nearly five minutes. My capacity for complaining is tempered by the fact that I am a beta user for the corporate EVDO network. This thing runs on Sprint's data network and the coverage has been excellent when around urban areas and decent in other places. I've gotten pretty good at optimizing my usage on this crappy...
My favorite political writer today is Matthew Yglesias. He had been writing three separate blogs, one on TPM Cafe, one on TAPPED, and a personal one. He just moved to a single, relaunched www.matthewyglesias.com. You can subscribe here: feedburner.com/matthewyglesias This post is a public callout and request for Matt to please, please bring back the full-text RSS feed.
Big thanks to my brother Tom for extended-loaning me a tube amp and pre-amp to compliment my superb already on-loan Advent 300 and 70's vintage Infinity speakers (unsure of the model number on those). The only thing I know about these new pieces is that they are hand made by a small company called Nobis Technologies from Wisconsin, that they are very heavy, put out serious heat and they sound and look fantastic. (note on the picture, the bottom right is the back of the pre-amp, the other three are just different angles of the amp with a night...
I've done two of these for co-workers in the last few weeks, so I figured it might be of some use to someone out there. Note, this is meant for a non-technical audience on a budget. YMMV ---------------- Make: I personally have the most experience with Dells, but they do seem to have had a up-and-down couple of years. I’m still pretty comfortable recommending them though. One of the factors I use when buying a notebook is driver support 2-3 years down the line, and in this metric I like Dell. If you go with Dell, consider going...
I started out hosting this blog at home using my cable modem, Linksys router and Dns2go. Because cable modems have very low upstream bandwidth I decided to host all static content, images mostly, on a third party site. I found a low-cost provider in J White Computers, Inc. I needed something simple with FTP access and they had it. Now that I have real hosting I don't need it anymore, but it was working fine; I was happy with the setup, no complaints. Except for this: After six years of service, this site will cease...
I spent five days at Beam Camp in New Hampshire at lake Winnepesaki last week. The camp is just in its second year -- I was there for the first year as well. It is a bit hard to describe, but basically it is an art-focused camp for kids from around 6-15 (?), where each summer there is a major, common, project for the campers and adults to work on, plus the whole range of regular camp stuff. This year's project was the creation of seven art-vehicles, floats of a sort, which were paraded for the local townspeople and parents...