I bought the iPod when it first came out. One of those 1st gen 5 GB ones with the mechanical wheels that came out six whole freakin’ years ago. Now I own a 4th gen 40 GB monochrome iPod that I use almost every work day, and one of those clippy 1 GB Shuffle things [...] » Read more

Our DSL modem died last Sunday, breathing its last wheezing gasp under an onslaught of BitTorrent traffic. It took over an interminable week for the replacement to arrive, including a visit from an AT&T technician who came out and verified that yes, it was a modem issue. We could have told him that. Susan rallied [...] » Read more

I’m in the middle of seven days off work that I took after shipping beta. Not like I didn’t have enough to do around the house (carpentry and the like), but nonetheless in anticipation of some free time, a few weeks ago I ordered a FPGA board to play around with. Now my exposure to digital [...] » Read more

My laptop hard drive was obviously on its death bed this weekend, so I had to order a replacement which showed up today – that’s the foil pouch on the top. The weekend before that I finally got fed up with the increasingly loud whining coming from my desktop [...] » Read more

Not much blogworthy, but apparently blog I must. I haven’t really done much lately – my have a life quotient is pretty near zero at the moment. Other than the rare movie (Kill Bill) or concert (Emanuel Ax) it’s been home, work, home again to vegetate, the odd video game, and on [...] » Read more

This is my new toy. Warning: geeky description to follow. A couple of weekends ago, I was going through the place recycling all my obsolete computer junk when I found my old STB WinTV card among other sadly unused relics. A quick Google search discovered that someone had written open source [...] » Read more