Archive for February, 2004

Tom Peters on Offshoring

Friday, February 27th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Great Observations from Tom Peters on offshoring. The ones that especially resonated with me: “Off-shoring” will continue; the tide cannot be reversed. Service jobs are a bigger issue than manufacturing jobs, ... Read more..

Super DVRs

Thursday, February 26th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Lost Remote: Super DVRs in the pipeline — these start to look like whole-home media servers. Are we going to end up with one media server in the house ... Read more..

Rich’s MT mtce guide

Wednesday, February 25th, 2004 Posted in Blog | No Comments »

Thanks Rich for the cookbook to get my config up to date — Tong Family Blog: MovableType Maintenance Read more..

Time to dump my Kenwood Music Keg

Tuesday, February 24th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Alpine Launches World’s First Car Audio Head Units to Allow True Integration with iPod — this is what I really want. Read more..

TV these days

Tuesday, February 24th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Martin’s admitting that he watches the Apprentice (Deep Green Crystals: The Apprentice Episode 7: Tammy’s turmoil) has motivated me to come clean. Besides The Apprentice, we are in love ... Read more..

WeakNees Tivo site

Tuesday, February 24th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Lost Remote: Max out your TiVo — nice pointer to the WeakNees site which looks like an easy way to upgrade your Tivo. I am teetering tho as I ... Read more..

Great article on Mars Rover debugging

Tuesday, February 24th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

EE Times - The trouble with Rover is revealed — from Lockergnome Read more..

Really Debugging a PC

Tuesday, February 24th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

From Rich’s site — great counsel on debugging a PC — basically really look hard at the power supply – Well, here’s what I’ve learned about really debugging a PC ... Read more..

Great list of Vancouver things to do

Monday, February 23rd, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

From Frank, pseudorandom: Vancouver Highlights. Very helpful list from insiders. We love Vancouver and try to get there at least once a year for a visit. Read more..

Top 75 Security tools

Monday, February 23rd, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Top 75 Network Security Tools via Scoble, thanks. Read more..

What ten books should an undergraduate read?

Monday, February 23rd, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Marginal Revolution: What ten books should an undergraduate read? — great list. I confess to having never read “Democracy in America” and so ordered a copy. If I ... Read more..

Newsgator Extensions

Monday, February 23rd, 2004 Posted in Blog | No Comments »

The extension feature of newsgator2.0 is very cool — i just installed Fetchlinks which Greg Reinacker pointed out, I’ve wanted this for a while. I’m going to pass on ... Read more..

Books this week

Saturday, February 21st, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

On the road this week, got a lot of reading done.  Micro reviews here.Seabiscuit.  Didn’t expect to like. But great story red pollard and seabiscuit. These characters will stick with ... Read more..

Flickr Launch

Thursday, February 12th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

pseudorandom: Flickr Launches — always good to see a Pacific Northwest startup making good progress. Congrats! Read more..

WAP variant of this site

Thursday, February 12th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Using WINKsite: Moblogging, Mobile Communities, Mobile Site Builder, npw I have a wap variant of my rss feed — man my readership is going to go thru the roof now. Read more..

PC-connected mixers

Thursday, February 12th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Looking at PC-connected mixers as a way to augment my KVM based on a suggestion from a reader. Hercules DJ Console USB DJ/Audio Interface for PC — this will ... Read more..

Becoming your own LD provider

Wednesday, February 11th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

BeyondVC: Want to be your own long distance player? — Not clear that I want to be a LD provider, a crappy business (because of these economics), but interesting. Read more..

Why Windows will never be cloned

Wednesday, February 11th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

It is details like this, repeated over and over again in the codebase, that have so entrenched Windows — Sure, we do that Read more..

Making it easier to subscribe

Wednesday, February 11th, 2004 Posted in Blog | No Comments »

quickSub looks like a cool little widget to automate feed subscription, as well as this little yahoo widget. On my todo list for my site. Read more..

SpeedFan

Tuesday, February 10th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Another great utility from Rich — Tong Family Blog: SpeedFan — the guy has way too much time on his hands. Read more..

Adrian’s Weather Station

Tuesday, February 10th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Adrian has kicked some serious butt and gotten up a weather station for the Lake Union Crew Club — Weather Page. He’s even created a wap page for the ... Read more..

Ilium by Dan Simmons

Monday, February 9th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

OK it is not Hyperion but Ilium is a darn good book. I finished it in about 3 days, engrossing. I know absolutely no Proust, and not enough ... Read more..

PC Power Supply and stability

Monday, February 9th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Rich has dug up a lot of good stuff on power supplies — most interesting the correlation between power draw and pc stability — Tong Family Blog: Power Supply Checks… ... Read more..

Methodz of Madness Forum

Monday, February 9th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Moved from yahoo groups to Methodz of Madness Forum — discussion of halloween prop building Read more..

Why the Pac-10 usually doesn’t compete for national titles anymore

Sunday, February 8th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

The Seattle Times: Sports — interesting look at the budgets of the Pac-10 athletic departments. UW at $45M, no one over $50M in the conference. Last I heard, ... Read more..

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