Archive for July, 2006

My new Mac Book Pro

Monday, July 31st, 2006

Hmm, the Intel Core 2 Duo is shipping? WWDC is next week?
Looks like my new Mac Book Pro will be ready in August.

Microsoft iPod moneypit

Monday, July 31st, 2006

An interesting article came via iLounge about Microsoft’s investment in Zune.
I wonder if they sunk “hundreds of millions of dollars” in order to get flash RAM at a competitive price? If so and the Zune is a bomb, that’s a big fucking write-off.

Compact Flash madness

Friday, July 21st, 2006

With two cameras now, I needed a third memory card. Now I have a Lexar Professional 133x 4GB CF card to complement my other two: a 2GB SanDisk Extreme and a 1GB SanDisk Extreme III.
With the announcement of the SanDisk Extreme IV I realized the whole deal has gotten quite confusing to the average photographer, [...]

High speed D200

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Well now that my D200 ownership cat is out of the bag, Caitlin posted some fun we had on it the first day.

PHP security size

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Mike sent me this book review of Pro PHP Security.
His joke: “528 pages? Didn’t these guys read your blog?”

Google Wireless in Mountain View

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Joseph sent me this cool map of Google’s wireless network:

D70 sequel

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Nikon has a teaser site for the D90 (or whatever they’re calling the D70 sequel). It’ll be released in 20 days, beating my expectation that Nikon will upgrade the D70 later this year.

stem cell fun

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

“…just as I am in favor of mandatory abortions (and, of course, recreational abortions), I am in favor of mandatory embryo harvesting. Actually, that doesn’t go far enough I want to create embryos, develop them in a lab, wait until they become fully-formed 14-year-olds (which they absolutely, positively will do in the lab), then steal [...]

A series of tubes

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

Ted Stevens gives us his “wisdom” on the issue of network neutrality:
“They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck.
It’s a series of tubes.
And if you don’t understand those tubes can be filled and if they [...]

Cats that look like what?

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

Too funny.
Their term for it: “Kitlers!”