So the hard drive upgrade is all set thanks to Trevor. I’ve started uploading more music now that I have the space to hold it. Ignore everything in that new Air album aside from the first track, it’s otherwise bad to awful.
Next up: an upgrade to the publishing system. Stay tuned 😉
Check out this excellent little camera. Small enough to fit in your pocket, cool retro 50’s styling but with modern digital innards. Me likee 😉
Hey does this work?
Testing to see if MT still works after installing the new drive.
Hey all,
The server this site is run from is going to go through some downtime over the next several days. I got a new drive so that I can put up more music and maybe even some movies, plus many more photos. I have to bring the server down and with Trevor’s able assistance migrate a bunch of stuff from its existing location to the new drive, so I will be up and down as we try and get this working. Geeks may be interested to know that the drive I bought was a Seagate 7200 rpm 60 gigger, which I got at my online cpu parts merchant.
Firing Squad has an article running today about the last days of 3dfx. 3dfx pretty much single handedly convinced consumers they needed a 3d graphics accelerator in their computers….well, I guess John Carmack/Id Software played a big role as well, but anyway, for about 5-6 years 3dfx totally dominated the business. They died shortly after releasing the V5500, a card I owned and liked and I was really sorry to see them go under, not just because I couldn’t get drivers for my card anymore, but because I feared there would be a loss of competition in the graphics card market. Fortunately ATI stepped it up, but it took them several years to really become competitive with nVidia.
Anyway, it’s a good article and has some insider dope on the last days of the company. I’m waiting to see if nVidia ends up using any of the patents and engineers they aquired from nVidia in their upcoming (xmastime) cards.
…is one of the sillier things I’ve ever linked to. This fellow built a playable harpsichord entirely from Lego bricks. He’s even got an .mp3 file you can listen to and savor the sweet sound of shrill twanging strings that is a harpsichord. Yuck! And I thought I had too much time on my hands 😉
Well…not really. But it did end badly. Lisa and I went out on Saturday night. We went to see friends of hers play a gig at a church in Brunswick. The band, the Coming Grass, was actually pretty good. They play a sort of folkish rock n roll mix. I knew when I heard Roger McGuinn/the Byrds playing on the PA system when I came in that I would enjoy it. They also had an opening act whose name escapes me, she played a half dozen Aimee Mann type ‘my heart is broken’ ballads on 6 string with a bass player accompanying her. She was ok.
The downside was that they got a late start, and Lisa and I had not had time to eat before we showed up. By the time their set ended it was like 9:30 and the restaurant we intended to eat at, an Indian place in Brunswick, was empty. So we went to the Sea Dogs Brewpup in Topsham (it’s just across the bridge from Brunswick). I’ve been in there a couple of times and it’s ok, the food is nothing special but not bad either and the beer is decent. The problem was, 10 minutes after we showed up these guys came on stage and they had the volume turned up to 11. Lisa and I ended up sitting about 10 feet from the stage and we couldn’t hear ourselves think let alone carry on a conversation. Plus something we were served didn’t sit well and both of us ended up feeling ill. I almost felt bad for the band, in about a half hour they managed to entirely clear out what had been a full restaurant. But given that they were ruining my date I didn’t feel that bad for them. They played a kind of rock/jazz fusion improv which sounded most like Phish, and it was WAY too loud. Neither of us enjoyed it and it really took the shine off the evening, which was a shame because up until then we had been enjoying ourselves. I told her next time I would take her to Taco Bell 😉
Beaten to the punch again. I discussed this thing as a possible invention at least a year ago on this weblog. Once again one of my ideas is turned into a product. Mind you, it’s overpriced and kind of a stupid product, but as a follow-up prediction, I think you’ll find these for under $10 in Walmart and maybe even on one of those cheesy tv ads within a year or so.
Bet you were surprised when you saw this 😉
I took the day off from work on Friday because of my chest and spent almost the entire day working on the site’s design. I’m reasonably pleased with how it’s turned out. Let me know if you find anything broken.
I can’t decide what’s next – upgrading the moveabletype software, installing a Wiki, working on the various application templates so they inherit the new design (things like the gallery and andromeda pages), or working on the ancillary scripts like the image rotation and file listings. If anyone has any strong preferences leave a comment for me.
