My poor little DirecTv HR10-250 is dying. It’s been making some weird noises for awhile now, which is never a good sign for hard drive health. Today though, it’s already frozen twice. The only fix has been to pull the plug and force a reboot. We’ve had this box for over 5 years now and [...]
Archive for January, 2010
Kindle syncing
I’ve had a kindle since they first came out, I’ve loved it since day one and use it pretty much every night to read for hours on end. In the past I would leave the wireless off though. With the 1st Gen kindle you could get a lot longer battery life if you didn’t turn [...]
New Firefox is FAST
I downloaded Firefox 3.6rc1 last night and it’s noticeably faster than the current 3.5.7. I can’t wait till they release it officially. Seems like safari, firefox, chrome and webkit are just leaving IE in the dust. It’s great to have some healthy competition in the browser market.
Lunch time with Caitlin
First a little cinnamon toast. Next, it’s milk time.
Things task management
Now that I’m spending a good percentage of my day chasing around a 1yr old, my brain has gone to mush. I’m finding that if there are things that I need to do and I don’t jot them down, then they don’t get done. I was on the lookout for a really great notes/task management [...]
Sharing videos from the iPhone
I’ve been attempting to sync the videos that I take on my iPhone back to my desktop mac. It appears that the normal way that Apple envisioned you doing this was to sync with iPhoto which would then download the videos to your desktop. My problem is that I’ve got a fair of amount of [...]
First attempt at spaghetti
Here’s a pic of my first attempt at making spaghetti sauce from scatch. In order to make it with low salt for Caitlin, I had to do it myself. I’m attempting to post from the iPhone while I watch caitlin, we’ll see how it turns out.
It’s time for Leo to tell Dvorack “Thanks, but no thanks”
I’ve been listening to Leo Laporte’s Podcast Network since it started and haven’t missed a TWIT in years. It’s made sense that as he’s added more specialized podcasts, that the flagship “This Week in Tech” has become more of a general tech and media show. Not exactly how I would prefer it, but I can [...]