February ← 2006 ← A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way

Logitech g5 mouse and g15 keyboard

Feb

2006

To match my new sli pc, i updated to gaming-optimized input devices — the g5 mouse and g15 keyboard. The keyboard is cool — the little lcd display during games is very cool. I’ve seen this keyboard in action for months and finally had to get one. The mouse is also cool — the adjustable ...

I'm behind on Ignition news

Feb

2006

* Congrats to the Judy’s Book team on their site relaunch. A new look — the new page for nonmembers is great. The ability to simultaneously post to JB and to your blog is awesome — rich has been doing a lot of. I’m way behind Rich on posting volume but working to ratchet my ...

A lifetime of Starbuck's Coffee

Feb

2006

I drink coffee. I am addicted to crosswords. Hence the perfect contest for me — win a cup of coffee a day for 50 years. I finished today’s first puzzle — not very hard — the equivalent of a monday or maybe tuesday NY Times puzzle — I wonder if they are going to ramp ...

Career counsel

Feb

2006

Reading Jason’s post on 8 things to craft your career and john’s on “can you tell me what your job is in 3 seconds” caused me to reflect back on some lessons I learned early in my career. A very smart colleague at Booz-Allen gave me two simple rules to help me in guiding my ...

Radioshack

Feb

2006

Nice post on radio shack’s increasing irrelevance to most consumers. As a make-magazine kind of guy,i tend to only go into radio shack when i need some part or cable to interconnect things. And I always wonder why radio shack prices all the little parts i buy so low. They are certainly leaving money on ...

Analyzing college football

Feb

2006

It pains me to link to the blog of an obvious Michigan fan, but he has earned my admiration: “Also: I’m taking requests. I have a database of most plays/drives that happened in D-I last year. If you’ve got any ideas as to how to use it, I’m listening. If you know SQL and would ...

Operating Manual for the Haunted Mansion

Feb

2006

The original operating manual for the Haunted Mansion, via Rob Fahrni. Nice.

Using the services of our investments

Feb

2006

Rich has shamed me a little unintentionally — he’s been a posting madman up at Judy’s Book and has like 80 more posts than I do. I just added a handful of reviews tonight, I am determined to catch up with Rich. I am threatening to pull well ahead of him on an investment that ...

Re-ripping everything lossless

Feb

2006

After expunging the Netgear SC101 disaster from my network, I found that I had lost about 10% of my ripped CDs — notably all my Led Zep. So time to rerip. After reviewing all of Rich’s goodness on codecs, I decided it was time to go lossless. On my new WidowPC rig, I installed: * ...