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...
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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...
It's Time to Make a Resolution!
As my more loyal readers will remember, I don't believe is waiting for January 1st to make a 'resolution'. I think that whenever you come to a decision you should do what you can to fix it right now....
Apple's Support is Still Top Notch
This morning, while eating a spot of breakfast, I noticed a crack in my Macbook. I was not completely surprised by this. I had noticed some weakness a few weeks ago during one of my laptop cleanings a...
Review: iPod touch
Well, I bought one. I heard rumor Thursday night that there were showing up in some stores so come Friday morning like a little apple lemming I dashed down to the local and grabbed what they had. In a...
Cooking: No Knead Bread
I'm a bit of a bread guy. I enjoy a nice hearty loaf of crusty bread and I enjoy baking bread when I have the time. There is nothing like quality bread fresh from the oven. The weather up here in the...
Cooking: Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookies
Over the past few years I have been working on creating the ultimate chocolate chip cookies. I've tried a lot of recipes and have finally decided on a modified version of a version based on the origin...
iPod touch, why hath thou decived me!
Apple, as it turns out, has changed its tune with the iPodtouch (Like the Pun?). This story was covered all over the web (TUAW, Engadget, Gizmodo) But, in case you missed it, they have changed their p...
iPod Touch, I yearn for you!
Ok, in case you live under a rock take a look at the new stuff out friends at Apple have released. Apple has released a device that I have hoped for since they announced the iPhone itself back in Janu...