My OLPC Laptop
I've spoken about the OLPC laptop before, Twice, in fact. Mine has finally arrived after much wasted time on Fedex's part. I still prefer UPS. Fedex was supposed to deliver the OLPC on Dec 20th, I did...
Leave Your Jacket in the Car!
First off, I live in New Hampshire. We have more then 12" of snow on the ground and the high today is expected to be 25 degrees Fahrenheit. My recommendation to you is to leave you jacket in the car....
Blog Downtime
Had a bit of downtime this past week. It was totally my fault. As you may know from reading the Server Configuration Page, I run this webserver as a VM using VMWare's VMWare Server. Long story short,...
'Tis the Christmas Season
Thats right, I said it. I celebrate Christmas and I'm not afraid to say it! It doesn't bother me that you might celebrate something else or nothing at all. If you are Jewish then please wish me a happ...
Using all that you can
Well, the greatest holiday of the year has come and gone and what do we have to show for it? Heaps and heaps of food. Sure, we all know how to make the turkey last, making all manner of turkey recipes...
Give 1 Get 1 - Today!
I just wanted to a take a moment and post a reminder about the OLPC Give 1 Get 1 program. From today until November 26th you can buy one of these great machines. Basically, for $400 plus shipping, whi...
Waiting in Line for Leopard
For the first time I went to the Apple store to wait in on of their much publicized lines. It was the release of Leopard and I wanted to be there to a get a T-shirt. To be sure I got the software as s...
Book Review: The River Cottage Year
As mentioned in a previous post, I bought two of Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall's books, The River Cottage Year and The River Cottage Meat Book. While I finish reading about raising my own meat I thought...
Server Woes: Part Two
So, the site has been down a lot lately. Pretty crappy. I'm a cheap guy and have been putting off replacing my UPS for a while now. Basically, even though it's batteries are old it has always had enou...
The Road to Mac OS X Leopard
AppleInsider has been posting a great series of articles about Apple's upcoming operating system release. They posted one today talking about OS X Leopard Server that is really excellent. They go thro...
Back to My Mac
As I mentioned in an earlier post, Back to My Mac is a feature offered by Apple through thier .Mac service. Up until today we had very few details but now that OS X Leopard has been officially announc...
OS X Leopard Release!
Apple has announced officially that the new version of Apple's operating system, OS X, will be available on October 26th. If you buy it in a store you can get it at or after 6pm of that day, if you pr...
One Laptop Per Child
The One Laptop Per Child project is nothing new in the world of us geeks. What is new is that they will soon be available for purchase in North America during a narrow window in November. If you are n...
The Recording Process
When a band first approaches me to record an album the first thing they mention is how they want to record the band playing all at once. It takes everything I have to not roll my eyes. Don't get me wr...
Website Down Time
We are back online. Seems we had a power issue and the servers didn't come back online when the power was restored. Biggest surprise is that the Thecus N5200 came back online just fine... Didn't see t...
Blog Enhancements: Header Image Rotation
For a weekend project I'm going to try and get an image rotation for the header working. CodeC11b set this up once before and I've been meaning to set it back up. I tried a few months ago but was unsu...
Followup: Thecus N5200 - Perfect in Failure
Right, so 56 days after the massive failure I have another degraded RAID on my hands. This time I didn't get any emails to tell me about it. Not sure why, I'll assume the email part is my fault to giv...
Update: Thecus N5200 - RAID Repair
Well, I have to admit: I am one lucky guy. I have been running a truly degraded RAID array since day one of my experience with the N5200. To get up to speed you may want to read my other post about th...
Grow Your Own: Sorting Out Step 1
Alright, I've made the decision to try to produce some of my own food. Now what? Seems step one should be to do a bit of research. The root of this decision comes from a British television series call...
Review: Jinzora Media Jukebox
I'm always looking for better ways to access my media when I am away from the house. For a while I was using Microsoft's streaming server because I had free access to it through a company I was workin...