Posted in Recreation on September 30th, 2007 3 Comments »
Bruce Arians had a very bad gameplan (very little play action, too much of the old "run-run-pass" offense). The offensive line had a horrible game. And key penalties (one leading to the TD return) and mistakes (Ben's INT from the two yard line) cost the Steelers the game. Even still, I like everything both Ben […]
Posted in Recreation on September 29th, 2007 No Comments »
Today I played golf at the Bedford Springs. I'll have a review of it online at The Sand Trap within about a month.
Posted in Apple on September 28th, 2007 2 Comments »
So Apple has this pretty awesome way to create your own little jingles and things. It's called Garage Band. And Apple has this nifty little phone that can play little jingles and things. It's called the iPhone. But there's no way to get something from the first thing onto the second thing. None at all.
Posted in Technology on September 27th, 2007 No Comments »
The iPhone 1.1.1 update apparently modifies your IMEI number to a standard testing number, which means unlocked iPhones won't recognize even the original AT&T SIM card. Unlocking an iPhone is not like putting an after-market stereo in your car or painting it, then having the brakes fail. It's more like adding a NOS system, then […]
Posted in Computing on September 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
And here I thought I was just about done with MP3. Then, along comes Amazon MP3, written up by John Gruber not once but twice. I will certainly be checking Amazon before the iTMS store now. 256 kpbs MP3s probably sound about the same as 192 kpbs AAC, but the prices seem better and the […]
Posted in Apple on September 25th, 2007 1 Comment »
Two great applications - EagleFiler and Cyndicate - are being offered this week for a combined "bundle" price of $55. Cyndicate, of course, I've written about before. I continue to believe it's the best feed reader/aggregator on the market today and one of its killer features - ratings - was developed with help from EagleFiler's […]
Posted in Recreation on September 24th, 2007 2 Comments »
What shows - new or old - will you be tuning in to this fall? I plan to give Chuck, Journeyman, and a few others a shot. I don't know if I'll bother to watch Heroes - I may record it and watch it if I have the time, but not otherwise. And I will […]
Posted in Blogging on September 23rd, 2007 1 Comment »
This blog is now running WordPress 2.3. So far, everything seems to be running smoothly, even with the massive number of plugins I use. My two plugins also seem to work. There are still two hacks I still have to make to the code: one adjusts the kses properties and the other "fixes" the uploading […]
Posted in Technology on September 22nd, 2007 3 Comments »
Why in the heck can't my iPhone sync some things - contacts and calendars primary among them - wirelessly? Why must I remember to sync something to my iPhone when my normal use doesn't necessarily include docking every day? My computer sits on a wireless network. My iPhone uses the same network. Why do I […]
Posted in Apple on September 21st, 2007 12 Comments »
According to iDefrag, my main disk has about 0.2%/0.5% fragmentation ((Which, by the way, is 4,000+ files.)). Big whoop. My Catalog has six fragments. Again, big whoop. Mac OS X has had, for awhile now, "built-in defragmentation." Something like any file under 20 MB is automatically defragmented when it's touched by the system - to […]
Posted in Technology on September 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
From Buzz Out Loud #564: First-year students whose roommates brought a video game player to college studied 40 minutes less each day on average, which translated in first-semester grades which were 0.241 points lower on the 4.0 grade scale. I still swear five of us my third year on campus could have probably gone pro […]
Posted in Technology on September 19th, 2007 2 Comments »
DirecTV was supposed to launch 30 new HD channels today (which I was hoping would include Golf Channel HD), simulcast on the same channels as the regular SD broadcasts. Our entertainment needs are pretty simple: I have my old TiVo as a backup in the bedroom (hooked to a tiny 19" TV that's so old […]
Posted in Silly on September 19th, 2007 No Comments »
Arrrrgh! Me mateys tell me DirecTV is supposed to launch 30+ new HD channels today, but avast, I've not yet seen the proof. Ahoy!
Posted in Personal on September 18th, 2007 10 Comments »
I'm on a mission: I'd like to discover how to make a good prime rib at home. I'll begin with a Google search, but if you've got any tips, share them in the comments. It looks simple enough.
Posted in Outdoors on September 17th, 2007 18 Comments »
A woman from the PA Fish and Boat Commission called me Friday regarding my two applications for kayak registration. You know, the kayaks (here and here) that I bought in Florida while I was living in Florida. She told me that because the boats were relatively new (March, 2004 being the newer of the two), […]