Category Archives: gadgets

Windows Update and the EEE

Posted on June 17, 2008 by baudattitude

Windows Update can officially go to hell. When I turned on the EEE for the first time, it had about 2.5GB free on a 4GB disk.  After letting Windows update run free, I’ve got a whopping .5 GB free. When … Continue reading →

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So that’s what a “warranty” is for.

Posted on March 6, 2008 by baudattitude

Backstory: A little over a week ago – Feb 26 to be precise – I realized that my camera, my beautiful pink camera, was broken.  A little bit.  Well, the “up” button on the keypad wasn’t working, and this is also … Continue reading →

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Say Hello to Vanity

Posted on February 5, 2008 by baudattitude

There’s a reason the latest PC in my apartment is named Vanity: I really didn’t need another PC. I certainly didn’t need a small form factor PC. But… I kept seeing references around the net to the Intel BLKD201GLYL motherboard, … Continue reading →

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Wait, define “Failure” again?

Posted on January 8, 2008 by baudattitude

…now that I have a blu-ray disc player, I’ve been paying more attention to assorted forum threads talking about the format. There’s lots of folks out there who are convinced that both HD formats are doomed and that, instead of … Continue reading →

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Heavenly Sword: See Gong, Throw Hat.

Posted on January 8, 2008 by baudattitude

I have to admit, I laughed at the Penny Arcade “Heavenly Sword” comic. Well, let me rephrase that.  It’s a comic, you’re supposed to laugh at it, laughing is a natural and expected response.  What I meant is that I … Continue reading →

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Firmware hell

Posted on October 25, 2007 by baudattitude

Last year my wife got me a really keen swissbit MP3-player/Swiss Army Knife gadget for my birthday. It made a pretty darn good MP3 player for walking, since I didn’t have to worry about destroying a hard disk, and it … Continue reading →

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I made you a mix tape.

Posted on October 3, 2007 by baudattitude

OK.  So I didn’t, really, but if I wanted to, I could now, you see. The unprecedented completion of my “record all the vinyl on to the computer” project prompted my wife to make delicate coughing noises and point out … Continue reading →

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I am good for the environment.

Posted on September 23, 2007 by baudattitude

OK. I’m not GREAT for the environment, or even really that good, because all I really did was take something incredibly wasteful and make it slightly less so. A few years ago, I designated one PC as the “Media” PC, … Continue reading →

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Random bits of swag from Japan

Posted on August 30, 2007 by baudattitude

I have an Acer laptop – I bought it because it was a) really quite inexpensive, b) had a huge (17″) widescreen display and c) had a built-in numeric keypad. Last weekend we noticed that CompUSA had the newer model … Continue reading →

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A brief bit on taking a Cell Phone to Japan

Posted on August 22, 2007 by baudattitude

As I mentioned a few months ago, I bought a Nokia 6630 because, among other things, it was a dual-mode phone that would work on Japanese cellular phone systems. At the time I was fairly dubious about this, but I … Continue reading →

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