Undoubtedly, most of you who read my blog have already seen the links to Clay Shirky’s “Gin, Television, and Social Surplus” and here’s the video link.

I avoided it for a little while as I haven’t always been a huge fan of his thinking. But I have to say that this presentation is a very [...]

Saturday March 15th 2008 I bought a Scan Gauge II and began an unhealthy obsession with gas milage.

I had been considering the device for many months, but was a little put off by the price. After a bonus check from work, I decided it was time. While I was driving around doing some [...]

I’ve finally gotten around to updating my wordpress install, and I’m going whole hog with SVN checkout. Everything went extremely smoothly aside from a weird configuration file issue. Used instructions here. Now that I’m above 2.3 I’m also going to start using tags. This is coolness.

I’ve also started using markdown. [...]

While reading about another web nerd fight I found this very interesting snippit about psychopaths.

When a psychopath feels that his manipulations are not working, he will always always always as a last resort use the pity play. He will be very sad, disappointed in you, and claim to be unfairly treated. It is very predictable [...]

As part of the ongoing quest for high quality HD content, I scoured the craigslist to pick up an HD-DVD player for my Xbox. I ended up grabbing one for a cool $100.

Both HD-DVD and Blu Ray have hyped up the ability to do really cool things with their menus and navigation. In [...]

After a long long wait, I’ve finally joined the HDTV crowd. While I’ve been having my ass kicked by a cold for the last few days, I managed to finally break down and head over to Costo to pick up a 42″ Vizio 1080p set. While I’ve only been living with HD for [...]

A couple of web browser gripes:

Anchors: Either scroll to the anchor that I’ve selected as soon as that anchor is available, or don’t mess with my scrolling! I’ll often load a page that is very heavy with comments, or is slowed down by loading content from another slow site. I’ll often just [...]

I’m an enthusiastic user of Growl, but can’t say I’m really in love with any of the styles. On a 30″ monitor, they tend to get lost pretty easily. So I thought it was time to design my own.

I was inspired by Apple’s Keynote theme, Blueprint. So I shamelessly imitated its design.

I’ve [...]

So Amazon has jumped into the e-book business with Kindle. Color me un-fucking-impressed.

Welcome to 1990 but with e-paper. All of the cool tech in this device (free wireless connectivity) seems more aimed at vendor lock-in rather than customer convenience or value. So let me get your value proposition strait:

$400 ugly grayscale device [...]

Since Steve didn’t turn on comments for his post here, I’ll speculate over in my neck of the woods.

The main question is, why won’t time machine simply back up to a standard file share? If it’s HFS+ shared over AFP, what’s the difference between that and locally attached storage?

Well my guess is this: [...]