Posted in me, the web on December 6th, 2006 No Comments »
I finally set some time aside and moved all my bookmarks over to RSS. I noticed I was spending way too much time visiting sites, some times multiple times a day, when I could just allow a RSS aggregator to do all the work for me. This was not something new to me, but I [...]
Posted in arghyle, the web on December 4th, 2006 1 Comment »
MediaTemple has finally brought some much needed upgrades to their Grid-Server. This blog has been on the Grid since October and while it has not been that bad overall and the experience has been improving, there have been lots of slow-downs and too many outages. Last week there was a considerable outage that lasted over [...]
Posted in interesting, me on December 4th, 2006 No Comments »
What was once your life is now your legend.
The movie version of Eragon comes out on Dec 15, so needless to say I am a bit exciting. At the risk of seeming like a fantasy/D&D/LOTR loser I read the first two books in the series (twice apiece) and I am very much looking forward to [...]
Posted in interesting on December 4th, 2006 No Comments »
Just now, my GAIM client shut off and could not connect to the AIM servers for about 15 minutes. I know a few other people did not get disconnected, but it looks like there was a small problem with AOL’s servers, at least the ones I connect to from here in NJ. The people I [...]
Posted in interesting on December 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
I just wanted to give everyone fair warning about The Fountain. I went to go see this movie last night with the gf and I was not expecting a whole lot (based on the reviews I had read), but I was still very disappointed.
I don’t want to waste a lot of time saying how bad [...]
Posted in interesting on December 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
[image courtesy of steelcase]
Steelcase is not generally regarded as a company that makes chairs on the level of Herman Miller or Knoll, but their Think looks pretty interesting. With a base price of $699 it could be something to keep an eye on for those people looking for a serious task chair. I am not [...]
Posted in tech on December 1st, 2006 No Comments »
From the article’s first paragraph:
The results of the rash of QuadFX reviews that just came out are uniformly disappointing; Intel’s quad-core offering, the QX6800, outperforms AMD’s much hotter, more power-hungry offering in almost every benchmark. Right now, QuadFX is a loser from a performance, power consumption, and bang/buck perspective, and there’s pretty much no reason [...]
