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Posts from November 2005

Waiting…

I ordered a P4 motherboard with 3 DDR slots and sound ($17!) 512MB RAM ($35) and an ATI Radeon 9200 card with TV out and 256 MB RAM ($45). I have another 512MB of RAM and a 2.2 Ghz P4 chip, nice ATX case, a handful of CPU fans, and already have XP running [...]


Planning Update

My experiment with paper planners came and went — I revived my old Franklin Covey paper planner, and found myself much more effective in both day-to-day and strategic planning, but my calendar is so everchanging that I couldn’t attempt using paper to plan my calendar.
We use Microsoft Exchange for calendaring, address book and email at [...]


Shooting again

I dropped off two rolls of film in the mail to York Photo. I’m trying to shoot more film now, save the digital for family shots. I’ve got some great cameras for creative shooting - a Canon FTb, a Canonet, an Olympus Stylus Epic and a LOMO LC-A. Each has their own idiosyncracies, each is [...]


Sony is Evil

The latest installment in my PC soap opera:
I tried flashing a Sony VAIO motherboard with the correct ASUS BIOS image, and the system won’t boot. They made some catch to prevent it from booting a non-Sony image. Probably because with the ASUS BIOS you could upgrade to a a much faster CPU with 4x the [...]