A new Kindle was announced today. I’m going to follow through on my original plan to return the wife’s Kindle 2, then get one of these. Pre-ordered a graphite model to ship on 27 August 2010. I’m hoping this one is faster at rendering webpages than the Kindle 2. It has a new, WebKit-based browser, [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Kindle 3
Posted in Uncategorized on 29 July 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A Good Weekend
Posted in Uncategorized on 19 July 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Had a decent weekend. Installed a new Samsung HDD in my MacBook Pro, caught up the mirror backup of my MyBook mirror, sent back about five RMAs, including my Series 3 HD TiVo, got the TiVo HD XL installed and working, my daughter painted, caught a date movie Sunday afternoon thanks to our daughter spending [...]
Most Reliable Car of All Time
Posted in Activism, Reviews on 18 July 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Might be the Toyota Starlet. I’d love a new, air-cooled Beetle though. It’s probably the real king.
Stearns & Foster Mattress
Posted in Uncategorized on 18 July 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We took delivery yesterday of our Stearns & Foster Berkeley Square King Plush Firm Tight Top mattress. It was a Demo unit, saving us $300 off a new one, but costing us 7 of an otherwise 10-year warranty. We thought it was an okay trade-off as my understanding of mattress warranties is that the companies [...]
incase Surprises Me
Posted in Uncategorized on 12 July 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I submitted a replacement request on goincase.com for my iPhone Clip Case for iPhone 3G S on 30 June. I still hadn’t heard back as of today so I called. After a brief hold (maybe three minutes), I reached “Linda”. Linda was great. She suggested I try a different model
Will It Blend?
Posted in Uncategorized on 9 July 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ll let you know, curious reader. It arrived today: my Blendtec Total Blender in Black.
Hello, Samsung: A Bigger and Cooler MacBook Pro Hard Drive
Posted in Macintosh/OS X, Reviews on 9 July 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Hitachi 320GB 7200RPM 2.5“ hard drive I installed in my MacBook Pro on 9 April 2009 is running great, albeit hot. But it’s not big enough for my needs. And that 7200 revolutions per minute makes some serious heat! My MBP temperature right now — with a fan blowing at its back and its [...]
Kindle Number Two
Posted in Reviews on 9 July 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We got my wife a Kindle the week it went down in price to $189. So far, she loves it. The day Woot announced an agreement for Amazon to buy them, they put the same Kindle on sale (new) for $150. I snagged one. The idea was to just return the wife’s and keep the [...]
Selective Mute
Posted in Uncategorized on 1 July 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The following is an idea I had today for a great feature for conference phone call systems: Make it so attendees cannot hear each other but the presenter can hear everyone. I call my idea Selective Mute.
