Category Archives: organization

Eggs, One Basket, check.

Posted on January 3, 2009 by baudattitude

A final tally on the new year’s project: Mac mini upgraded & XBMC installed.  Old Mac mini hard drive turned into a 100GB portable drive by adding a $20 SATA-to-USB adapter / case. Desktop repurposed as a server with a … Continue reading →

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Mac Media Madness

Posted on January 2, 2009 by baudattitude

Some updates on this weekend’s insanity. The Mac seems to be buzzing along with its new memory and HD.  Leopard is up and running.  The new Front Row is really bleh compared to the version from Tiger, and it had … Continue reading →

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Evil Plans Continue

Posted on December 31, 2008 by baudattitude

My UPS package came, which, along with a trip to the campus bookstore and to True Value, gave me all the ammunition I need to, well, make a tonne of work for myself this weekend. PS: I might actually dust, … Continue reading →

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Evil Plans, Go!

Posted on December 31, 2008 by baudattitude

I have the next five days off work. Now that I’ve finished the video capture / encode / edit project, I have one more Big Goal, which is to say: Get our digital crap sorted out. Stage 1: Taking my … Continue reading →

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Suck it, Sisyphus

Posted on December 29, 2008 by baudattitude

I have ranted before about the problem of having been too much a fanboy back in the analog media days.   That problem, basically, is that I had a massive pile of analog media around taking up space, slowly degrading, and … Continue reading →

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Purging for fun &… profit?

Posted on September 10, 2008 by baudattitude

OK, really more like purging for fun and cutting my losses.  🙂 I used to go to a really neat comic book shop in Culver City.  It was not your normal shop, where you have to look very hard to … Continue reading →

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The Ikea Nesting Instinct

Posted on August 31, 2008 by baudattitude

“Like so many others, I had become a slave to the lkea nesting instinct.” — Fight Club Today was our third Ikea trip this week. It started out simply, with a pair of POÄNG chairs – black frames, red cushions, … Continue reading →

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Paranoia Defined

Posted on August 27, 2008 by baudattitude

OK, so in the course of organizing the apartment, I’m looking through some boxes that haven’t been gone through in a few years. And I find a stack of 3.5″ floppy disks labeled “C: Drive Backup, 10/1/1994, Norton Backup Format” … Continue reading →

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Sad consequences…

Posted on August 27, 2008 by baudattitude

One of the things purged in last weekend’s organizational frenzy was a 24″ Toshiba TV. It’s not that it was a particularly bad TV in any way, but it was, you know, a CRT TV, and big and heavy and … Continue reading →

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Organization by digicam

Posted on August 27, 2008 by baudattitude

My wife and I have been going through a bit of a crazed organization phase recently, which has been helping enrich our local Ikea and Container Store to no end but which has also been making our apartment into a … Continue reading →

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