It was time. After many, many years I have finally decided to retire my old alarm clock. This thing has lasted me through countless years and apartments and has lived in three states. It’s held steady through countless ‘Snooze‘-s, and still faithfully wakes me up to NPR’s Morning Edition daily. The dual alarms and casette [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Nerd'
I Love My Job Today
September 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Nerd
As it’s well known, I’m in IT. Today at the office we were experiencing some Internet slow-downs. Read: people could not access their NFL Pool stats and Facebook fast enough so they were complaining to me. This is not new, and my first step is to investigate to be sure that the slow down is [...]
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iTunes 9 Love
September 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Nerd
I hear people ranting and raving about iTunes on a regular basis. Apple’s media player software has gotten criticism from all sides, and some of it rightly so. With the recent release of iTunes 9, Apple has taken some steps to alleviate people’s concerns and show that they actually are listening to the criticisms.
There have [...]
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PandoraFM – great mix between Pandora and Last.fm
September 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Music, Nerd
For active users of Last.fm and Pandora comes PandoraFM. I first used this a year or so ago and it wasn’t working right. Lots of time-outs and things like that. Essentially what it does is allow you to list all the songs you played on Pandora to list over on your Last.fm [...]
Pandora.Com now charging .99 per month for heavy users.
July 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Nerd, News
According to this post on Pandora.Com, they will now start charging .99 per month for users who go over 40 hours a month on their service. I have been both a Pandora, as well as Last.Fm (as you can see by the sidebar here) user for a long time, and I totally understand why they [...]
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MySpace staffing cuts
June 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Nerd
Honestly, I didn’t think they were that relevant anymore. The new media/web 2.0 people have to realize that things are constantly evolving, and building a company around something like MySpace is a bad strategy for longevity. I’m not quite the demographic for the site anymore, but to the best of my knowledge, the main reason [...]
Awesome story about a hydraulic computer.
June 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Nerd
This is awesome: http://judson.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/guest-column-like-water-for-money/
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Annoyed with Apple today
April 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Computery, Nerd
I have an iMac G5. It’s a couple of years old. The logic board died as a result of a known Apple defect. Apple actually covered this defect by an extended warranty: http://www.apple.com/au/support/imac/repairextensionprogram/. Of course, I am 5-6 months beyond this warranty. I would understand if it’s a warranty [...]
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Don’t ask Jack about the home page.
March 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Nerd
Auto Tuning from Casey D on Vimeo.
Apple’s new announcement
January 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Computery, Nerd
Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
