I’ve noticed that my Mac Pro has gotten progressively noisier over the past year or so. I thought it was due to firmware updates bundled along with OS X 10.5 version bumps. I’ve been through a similar experience with my PowerMac Dual G5 which had wildly-different fan characteristics with odd versions of Tiger. Finally, I [...]
The one good thing that’s come out of the writer’s strike is that I’ve been watching a lot of canned video lately that I might not have otherwise watched. These are shows that have been on my list for awhile but due to the constant stream of “fresh television” haven’t had time to get into them.
No, no, it’s still kinda broken… Worse, I tried watching The Bourne Ultimatum on the HD-DVD player and it crapped-out halfway through the movie. There was an available update for the HD-DVD player which I didn’t dare apply because of all the wonkiness. After some cursing and wringing of the remote, I pulled the disc [...]
No, I am not talking about the Repo Man coming into my house and taking away my aging PowerMac G5 (aka “hitomi”). Nope, I’ve repUrposed the machine as a sort of bedroom home-entertainment hub. Disconnected from my command center, I moved it upstairs and hooked it up to the 32″ Toshiba LCD screen and NAD [...]
While I’m somewhat incapacitated with some seasonal allergies, I thought I’d take a few minutes to write about the movie I just watched for the first time since it was in theatres 10 years ago: “Alien: Resurrection“. I just read a fairly lengthy interview with Joss Whedon on the Onion’s AV Club and thought I’d [...]
HandBrake, my favorite video conversion tool for getting DVD video onto my iPod has just been revved. Now there’s even a Windows version so if you’ve been jealous of my ability to convert DVDs to iPod video for sometime, but didn’t have a Mac or Linux, this new version’s for you. Other cool features include [...]
I’ve been reading the Lifehacker blog for awhile and find it frequently informative and helpful. So it came as quite a shock this morning when I was flipping through my feeds and discovered this… this affront to myself. Clearly an infringement on my own trademarked nickname, they have mashed-up my domain name and tweaked the [...]
It’s been a little while without a post so I thought I’d drop a few lines out there for the fans. I’ve had a busy week. Last weekend, I flew home to the great land of New Brunswick to pick up my new car (pictures pending). Without going into too much detail, the flight home [...]
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