Archive for May, 2006

Microsoft and HP are failing me

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »

Our family room PC died this morning. Needed a new one in a hurry — this is a mission critical PC at home. I usually build my own ... Read more..

Dream Trip to Chile

Saturday, May 27th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Haven’t had much opportunity to travel in the last year but hopefully will get the chance to do so. In the meantime there are some trips I am dying ... Read more..

Recent software/services of note

Saturday, May 27th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Jon Udell discusses web-based presentation software. S5 continues to intrigue me, if someone ran a hosted S5-like service I think i’d dump powerpoint Mobile Seatguru now available. cool. World of Warcraft the ... Read more..

The year you graduate matters

Saturday, May 27th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

From Marginal Revolution, this NYT article on how hard it is to climb the career ladder if you start low, and how starting positions vary by graduation year. What would I ... Read more..

Michigan Stadium

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

From Every Day Should Be Saturday: “The renovation seeks to add 83 indoor suites and 3,200 outdoor club seats, although overall capacity will only increase by about 750. There must ... Read more..

BC Resorts

Monday, May 22nd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Rich finds some great places to visit in BC. I hear King Pacific Lodge is nice too. And Eaglenook might be fun. Read more..

Fun sports econ reads

Monday, May 22nd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Why NFL stadiums are so much newer than college stadiums. And for me at least, more boring. And pithy excerpts from The Wages of Wins: Taking Measure of the Many ... Read more..

Rich 2.0

Monday, May 22nd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Rich gets excited by Techcrunch about Web2.0, resolves to use every Web2.0 service that exists, and pays the price. Read more..

EW’s Best Music Websites

Monday, May 22nd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Their list of best music websites — and a file of them all that you can import as firefox bookmarks. Read more..

Condo Buying Tips

Monday, May 22nd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Provided to me by a good lawyer friend — Tips On Buying Condos (PDF). Good stuff. Read more..

Jonathan Schwartz’ Blog

Sunday, May 21st, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Pretty inspirational guy — Survival of the Most Adaptable, and also his post on first meeting scott. Certainly would make me feel that there was a great leader at the ... Read more..

How to Interview

Sunday, May 21st, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

A great book reco from rich — the perfect prep book. Critical advice on preparing for an interview. Excerpting rich: Before the interview, read the website. Know the three reasons why you ... Read more..

Cement that absorbs pollution

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Is this cool or what — It functions via a chemical process called photocatalysis, whereby sunlight triggers a chemical reaction when titanium dioxide on the surface of the cement comes ... Read more..

Travel fridge and microwave

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Need to equip a car with a mini kitchen — looking for travel appliances. Compact Appliance seems to have a ton of travel coolers but not so many microwaves. ... Read more..

Living Forever

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Eric recommend Fantastic Voyage : Live Long Enough to Live Forever by Kurweil and Grossman. Interesting read. The high level recos make a lot of sense and are ... Read more..

Hardware I Need To Get

Monday, May 15th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

With Skype’s recent announce of free outbound calling, I should try one of the cordless handsets available A Washington-based PC Mfr focused on silent PCs — endpcnoise Rich is getting me excited ... Read more..

Web sites of interest

Sunday, May 14th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

While I’ve been a blogging slacker, a whole bunch of sites and services have arrived that I need to play more with: Pageflakes (build your own startpage)…Amazon S3 (fee-based storage)…Edgeio ... Read more..

Photo utils

Saturday, May 13th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Rich reminded me of dxo and pointed me towards noise ninja and neatimage. Dxo is cool tho I don’t know that I really appreciate the coolness of it. ... Read more..

Halloween Props

Thursday, May 11th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

If price is no object — Scarefactory furniture — most of this is a little too gory for my tastes, but great stuff. Cloud lamp - nice little project. I think ... Read more..

The Mother of All BBQ Trailers

Thursday, May 11th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Dad how can you not get this for tailgating this fall? Read more..

Ignition News

Thursday, May 11th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Ice.com buys Diamond.com just in time for Mother’s Day. Improved job summaries on jobster. Oh and their UK launch. Seamobile acquires MTN. Congrats everyone. Read more..

Recent Software

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Process Library taskmanager plugin. Just OK. does make it marginally easier to get process info but i had hoped it would pull info right into taskmanager instead of just a ... Read more..

Late April Books

Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Cloud Atlas by Liam Callanan. A little slow but builds nicely. A tragic tale set on the margins of WW II. Well researched. Ultimately I’m not totally ... Read more..

Diesels

Monday, May 1st, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Martin is always a great read — latest diesels in europe, audi a8. man I wish these were available here. as he says the citroen is hot looking. Also a ... Read more..