For Mother’s Day I got Jenn a new router. The old one was flaky and didn’t really provide ample coverage of the whole house. In the process of installing it, I had to change a bunch of stored passwords. Here’s the current list. My phone Jenn’s phone Rae’s phone Owen’s phone (no cell service) Apple […]
In which I show you some videos As someone with the twin loves of This American Life and trying to become a better writer, I love the fact that I just rediscovered Ira Glass’ Storytelling video(s) today. Here there are if you haven’t seen them before: Part 1: On the basics … Part 2: On […]
In the interest of confusing the hell out of search engines and readers alike, I titled this post “Mobile Me”, in the style of Apple’s signature syncing technology (which I completely need to purchase but never end up doing). No, I’m thinking more about the relationship (and yes, it’s a relationship) I have to the […]
I am a tinkerer. I can’t leave well enough alone, especially where technology is involved. I’m the guy who just had to spend a week getting the wireless sharing working on the TiVos (TiVoes?) only to discover I’d broken the ability to upload DivX from PC. I’m also the guy who just had to show […]
So I got my much-anticipated Dell Mini 9 (Inspiron 910) last Friday (they’re on sale until early tomorrow morning, btw) and I’ve saved up a couple of days worth of testing notes to share. The first half of the post is unbox pr0n, so skip down if you don’t want to see the reveal. FedEx […]