Archive for December, 2003

Recent Downloads

Monday, December 29th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Desktop Sidebar … Hard Disk Indicator … XP Powertoys … Read more..

10,000 RPM WD drive

Monday, December 29th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Built a shuttle this weekend with a WD Raptor 36 GB 10,000 RPM ESATA Hard Drive Kit - WD360GDRTL as it’s boot drive — a nearly 40% improvement in speed ... Read more..

Likely future of the recorded music business

Monday, December 29th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I like what Olivier Travers has to say: “The cost is so low delivery is basically free on a per-song basis. In the face of changing consumer demand, no ... Read more..

Best Games of the holiday break

Sunday, December 28th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

We’ve played a lot of games over the holiday. Our grades: Call Of Duty: A+. Multiplayer incredibly fun, servers easy to connect to, firewalls not a problem. The ... Read more..

Tips on graphic card updates

Friday, December 26th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Post-Christmas Tips: Graphics Cards — good tips here, basically get all the drivers you are going to need beforehand, and clean off any card-specific goo before you try to update. ... Read more..

External serial ata drives

Friday, December 26th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

PC Magazine’s Coming Attractions: CMS Velocity Series — building my first sata machine over the holidays, this looks interesting. Read more..

Kerry’s call for energy independence

Friday, December 26th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Kerry’s Call for Energy Independence — i never blog on political issues but this one struck me as just odd. Why all the hoopla over oil? What about ... Read more..

Reseller ratings — nice find by Rich

Friday, December 26th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Tong Family Blog: Reseller RAtings Read more..

Brian Briggs review of music stores

Friday, December 26th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

BBspot - Reviews: Digital Music Stores Read more..

Best of ONLamp

Friday, December 26th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

ONLamp.com: The Best of ONLamp 2003 [Dec. 23, 2003] Read more..

Ambient Virtual Co-Presence

Thursday, December 25th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Joi Ito’s Web: VoIP enables ambient virtual co-presence — needs a better name. Read more..

LinkedIn Moral Dilemma

Monday, December 22nd, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

LinkedIn: Home — OK I am faced with a moral dilemma. Two invitations in the past week to add connections. One from a guy I don’t know that ... Read more..

Making PCs as easy as TVs

Monday, December 22nd, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

For a long time I’ve thought that I was unlikely to ever put a PC in my family room next to the TV, because a PC was so unfriendly. ... Read more..

Setting up a Wiki

Monday, December 22nd, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I keep thinking I should set up a Wiki for my use or Ignition’s use, tho I don’t really know why. If I do, I like the look of ... Read more..

Using a tablet pc as an extra monitor

Monday, December 22nd, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

ComputerZen.com — very interesting. I have a tablet PC that is not doing much, i may try this out. Read more..

NY shopping maps

Sunday, December 21st, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

hit-or-miss quicklinks: Shopping Maps by NY Neighborhood — great site, would love these for every city we visit. Read more..

The necessity of shipping

Sunday, December 21st, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

inessential.com: Weblog: Comments for “On shipping software” — good summary. One of my first mentors at Booz-Allen summed it up for me — “Your strategy IS what you ship”. ... Read more..

Econ blogs

Sunday, December 21st, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I am starting to find these discussions of applied microeconomics to be fascinating — for instance ProfessorBainbridge.com: The Starbucks v. Subway Puzzle and all the links it includes. I ... Read more..

$225M for GoToMyPC

Saturday, December 20th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Citrix Acquires Maker of GoToMyPC — wow, this is a pretty big price. I am a little surprised, I don’t know many people using GoToMyPC, but obviously it must ... Read more..

Searls on presentations

Saturday, December 20th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Problem With Presentations — pointed to by many blogs — “It’s the story, stupid”. Great guidance — the points about making it personal ring very true. I’d ... Read more..

updated channel list for seattle comcast hdtv

Friday, December 19th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Furrygoat Experience: HDTV Goodness — WB and Fox join in now. This is getting to be pretty good. Of course not all the channels are doing much ... Read more..

Foldershare

Thursday, December 18th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »

FolderShare. Update: tried it out. Nice work, but has a limit of 10K items per shared folder which is a bummer, doesn’t work as a private shared network for ... Read more..

Painters buy White Canvases for a reason

Wednesday, December 17th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

From Freedom to Tinker: Painters Buy White Canvases for a Reason. A pithy way of describing why platforms are successful. Read more..

Another photo sharing app.

Wednesday, December 17th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

PhotographyBLOGpoints to Pixory, another photo sharing app, apparently akin to Electric Shoebox which I mentioned last week. BTW the Electric Shoebox team contacted me and were very solicitous of ... Read more..

Google is the new RTFM

Wednesday, December 17th, 2003 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

RasterWeb! — so true. Don’t waste my time asking me about something if you haven’t even tried Google yet. Read more..

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