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iTunes 7 + iPod 5.5

Last week during the September 12th surprise-note at Apple, a bunch of new iTunes and iPod-related stuff was unveiled. At long last, my wish for an 80GB ‘pod was realized and I hastily ordered it from the Apple Store before the event was finished. Dria ordered a sporty new 8GB Nano in serious black metal [...]

Pad Thai Disaster

(or “There’s a Coup in my Mouth and the President of Thailand is Invited”) Today, while trying to reheat some left-over pad thai (with some left-over bacon on it for good measure because, well, bacon tastes good), I had a bit of a problem. I had what I termed, “a catastrophic lid failure” on my [...]

Erect Angry Patent Tower

Metric at Bluesfest

Last night was awesome. I packed up the little camera (dria’s 5700) and rolled over to my friend’s place for some pre concert hanging. The heat was almost unbearable but we managed to drink our way to 8:30 and wandered down to the MBNA stage for the main act. I had no interest in seeing [...]

Mer Bleue

Yesterday was fun. In celebration of my new camera (and, well, dria’s camera too), we went to Henry’s and outfitted ourselves with a couple of telephoto lenses and I got the remaining essentials for my bag: a speedlight and a shutter remote. Dria got a wickid wide-angle lens that she might let me borrow sometime. [...]

Happy Canada Day!

It is July 1st, 2006. Happy Canada Day! canada-day-06 Technorati Tags: General

ProClip = iPod + phone

Two weeks ago I finally got an iPod connection installed. Dension’s ice>Link Plus. I’ve been really impressed with the connection to the factory Bose head-unit in my car and I daresay it works much better than the Alpine iPod interface I had in the Subaru. It replaces the CD Changer, but that’s not really a [...]

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