Esoterica for a new Millennium
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This was the headline on an article I read at “The Register”. It's funny how the mind works. My first thought after I read that was, “hay, Anand Tech probably has the new buyers guide for the mid-range system of the month online now”! Read More...
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It's funny how life has a way to throw inspiration our way from the oddest directions. We bought Yasmin a ton of computer gear recently because: a) It was her birthday, b) she had a science project to complete, c) I want her to grow up to be as geeky Read More...
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Say that a few times fast, and you begin to understand the fun you can have with a 9 year old with just 5 words of English. So, build vs buy. Recently I decided to build a PC for Yasmin. I had purchased her one a few years back. It was from a British Read More...
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That is the question. Be it nobler to pull up your sleeves than to bow to the will of the component provider? So, here's the deal. This past weekend, Yasmin and I finished the path around the back yard. It took 20 bags of bark hauled from the hardware Read More...
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During the winter in my neighborhood, the begetation looks pretty baren. Things become really simple. Everything but the evergreens, loses it's leaves, dries up, and kinda disappears. You can see everything clearly without all the clutter in the way. Read More...
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I didn't actually watch the whole super bowl. I watched some of the first half, and walked away as soon as the half time show started to make a phone call. The call lasted through the half time show, and pretty much through the second half, and I got Read More...
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As Jimmy Carter used to do, I consult my daughter Yasmin on many an issue of great and deep importance. The subject this weekend was why computers crash, have bugs, and all that sort of stuff. I made a bold statement because I wanted to see where we could Read More...
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I was wandering around the other day thinking to myself, how secure are things in my daily life. How do my expectations of security match the reality? I started with my house. How secure is my house? Well, there are 'locks' on all the doors and windows. Read More...
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It's 9am. Do you know where your parents are? This morning I dropped Yasmin off at school. She needed to provide a white cotton t-shirt, and white cotton pants to tie-dye for a play that they are doing in the spring. We had the shirt already, but we didn't Read More...
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What is “legacy data”? I thought about this because at work we talk about 'legacy data' all the time. As if the data being stored in the future will be current, and the data stored today is old crufty and undesirable. Having installed another Read More...
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I've archived a large number of DVDs to my hard disk. If you have non-copyrighted material, say weddings and whatnot, on DVD, you can use DVDDecrypter to store the content on your hard disk. It has this neat mode (ISO Read) that pretty much just copies Read More...
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So, This past weekend, I pushed further ahead with my home office rearrangement project. Having detreasured the downstairs, and having move my center of computing upstairs, there was just one more thing to move. I left one of the computers downstairs Read More...
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Don't buy big houses. You'll just fill them up with junk that you'll never see again! You know the drill... I was down in the basement, and I was opening up boxes and... Tonight I threw away an old TV, that no longer worked, a VCR, that is older than Read More...
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Saturday, wake up at the crack of dawn (8:30am). We'll be meeting up with Val and Kalya at 10am at the central park in Bellevue. So, of course we need a gourmet breakfast before we go. That consists of special scrambled eggs, strawberries and pear slices. Read More...
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About 3 years ago I went through a transformation. I discovered that there was a ton of music that I wanted to listen to. I never was much for the Napster craze, so I actually went out and bought a bunch of CDs. I just counted, and I have about 100 of Read More...
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