…metaphorically speaking. What a great title to a blog post! Even better quote. Dylan Beattie’s Blog: A Rant about RAID, with a Bad Metaphor about Eggs, and No Happy Ending. You know your whole eggs & baskets thing, right? SATA RAID is like carefully dividing your eggs into two really good baskets, then tying them [...]
All I can say is…wow. Slava Akhmechet hit it right on the head with this post. I too struggle with “perfectionism” and over thinking things constantly. I get really excited about a project or an idea, write it down in my notebook and then nothing ever seems to happen. Or I start and then as [...]
Senate passes bill to delay digital TV switch – washingtonpost.com WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Senate passed a bill on Monday to delay the nationwide switch to digital TV signals, giving consumers nearly four more months to prepare. The transition date would move to June 12 from February 17 under the bill that was fueled by [...]
I’m headed out to Home Depot right now to pick up a case of liquid nitrogen… AMD Phenom II Overclocked to 6.5GHz During CES a group of overclockers with access to liquid nitrogen and liquid helium for the extra boost of coldness cools an AMD Phenom II X4 chip to -232 degrees Celsius. Once they [...]
Upload from your desktop — more better! « Flickr Blog Since our last main release, we wanted to provide a better uploading experience — more stable, more accepting of different file formats and more capable to handle heftier uploading needs. We’ve worked hard on the new Uploadr version 3.1.3 to process batch uploads and different [...]
I told you this story… By Ken Levine: Who is the sexiest sportscaster? Forget the damn Oscars! PLAYBOY has announced it’s top five nominees for the “Sexiest Sportscaster of 2008”! And it’s a hot competition this year, gang. ESPN’s Erin Andrews (the Meryl Streep of this category) is looking to repeat. If the other contestants [...]
I don’t know if you use Digg…but I think it sucks. I’m not entirely sure why I think it sucks but I do. I personally read Reddit but either way and either one, neither of them have a business model. Yes, yes…the whole eyeballs = advertising = money argument but I just don’t see how [...]
While I wanted to write a huge beginning post explaining the blog and what I hoped to accomplish, plus give a shout out to Gina Trapini at Lifehacker, the Waiter at WaiterRant and many others for inspiring me to want to have a “real” blog, I just can’t seem to pull the trigger. So without [...]
This is a blog...of a person...that sucks at writing. Think of it as Techmeme written by a retard...except without all the hugging.
