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Monthly Archive for November, 2006

You can take away a lot of things, but not people’s iPods!
like a scolding parent it’s trying to make it tougher for that country’s eccentric leader to buy iPods
Full story here.

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24 hours in to owning the Wii and it is really a blast. So far I think the favorite Wii Sport is boxing. Tennis is a close second. This will definitely be a lot more fun when we buy a few more Wii remotes so we can all play at once. [...]

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That’s just Wii-tarded

I’ve been on the hunt for a new Nintendo Wii game console and have not had any luck finding one. So today I got up early and went and stood in line with around 99 other fools at a local Best Buy that was supposed to have some. I was told they opened [...]

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This week’s theme: Regulus

As a WordPress.com user, you only have so many options for the look and feel of your site without paying money to edit (and save) CSS. I’m never happy with the look of my site so I am always changing it. I’ve come close before with the White As Milk theme, but I [...]

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Update: Google Reader vs NetNewsWire

It has been 6 weeks since I decided to try Google Reader over NetNewsWire (NNW) and I wanted to share some results. For pure speed and layout I think NNW does a better job. For nearly everything else, I think Google Reader does a good enough job that I am sticking with it. [...]

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How I sped up web browsing in OS X

I have long been frustrated by how long the “Looking up” or “Contacting” phase of web browsing on OS X takes. I thought I had solutions in the past, but nothing really worked. While I am connected to a wired network I don’t experience the issue, it is only when I am wireless.
The [...]

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Another year passes

Another birthday has come and gone. One of the best parts is getting hand made cards from the kids. I’m still a big fan of cards made with crayons. As I get older I think more and more about all the things I thought I would do with my life but never [...]

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It was my spudger!

Since upgrading my G4 15″ Aluminum PowerBook’s hard drive to a 160GB capacity drive, I have not needed to use the DVD/CDRW Superdrive - until last night when I needed to rip a CD in to iTunes.  Unfortunately the drive would not mount and would immediately eject any disc I put in it.  I tried [...]

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Spending the weekend with relatives in Erie, PA, we took a ride over to the Tom Ridge Environmental Center At Presque Isle. Very neat place. You can learn a lot about Erie and its environment. We passed a whiteboard so I had to draw a picture of my beautiful wife. [...]

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Here we sit, the day after Election Day. The Democrats have won the House and the early word is they have just won the Senate as well. I guess we’ll know for sure on the 27th when everything is certified, but with elections so close you can’t blame either side if they want [...]

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