To anticipate and prevent
We’re trying to standardize onto Ubuntu at work and we need hardware that works really, really well. One thing that I thought might be nice to have in the office was the Dell XT2 tablets. Not that I expect everyone to have one, but I thought there might be at least a handful of users…
Recently, I opened an Orange CD with ING Direct, but in my haste to open it, I selected 18 months instead of 12 months. Ooops! Unfortunately, I couldn’t find anything on the website to rectify this. Closing the CD prematurely would result in a penalty of 6 months interest (given that I had just opened…
I’ve said some nasty things about the iPad in the past and I’ve also said some nicer things more recently. As with the iPhone, the “make or break” boils down to what apps are available. Of course, I didn’t have much in the way of iPad specific apps, basically just blown up iPhone apps (which…
It is, once again, time to upgrade external hard drives. After I bought two Western Digital 750 GB My Books, I swore I wouldn’t need to upgrade for a LONG time. Well that long time has been long up, but I figured it wasn’t worth it until I could get a 2TB drive at a…
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Last month I did a “Zombie Review” for the anime, Highschool of the Dead. At that point in time we weren’t terribly far into the series. While I titled it a review, it was, in large part, an introduction. Since they’ve wrapped up season 1, I thought it was worth reviewing again. This time I’ll…
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If you look back on the number of Ride Friday posts we’ve had, you’d think there isn’t much motorcycle riding going on. Fortunately, that isn’t true, just not a lot going on that is noteworthy. I ride my motorcycle almost every day now, though, to be fair it isn’t very far. I take it from…
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