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Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

  • Selling a video card over on Ebay

    Check it out if you need a good gaming card or want something that will run Vista with full glass effects. eBay: NIB XFX GeForce 6800 Xtreme AGP 8x 256 MB DDR3 Vid Card (item 110039721985 end time Oct-06-06 17:26:33 PDT)

  • Getting closer to moving from MythTV to MCE

    I have been running a Linux MythTV box for almost 3 years, but in the past few months, I have been thinking more and more about converting to Windows MCE.  The first straw was the problems I continue to have with the HDTV Tuner (the HD3000).  The second straw has been the incredible heat the…

  • CATIA causes Airbus tower of Babel

    Looks like this story is starting to get a little bit more mainstream. This is a well known issue with CATIA insiders.  While I’m glad to see this aspect of the story getting more exposure, I’m puzzled by the proposed solution by “experts”: “They didn’t have uniform design tools throughout the system and that’s biting…

  • Heaven is RSS Syncronization

    I admit it: I am an RSS junkie.  I can think of no better way to kill 5 minutes or an hours than catching up on my feeds.  I started out with a number of different client side readers until eventually settling on Feed Demon last fall.  I used it happily for a few months…

  • OK, all together now

    Well the migration seems to be complete. I have all of my old blog posts moved over and more importantly all of my customizations and plugins. It was a little harder than I thought, but not impossible. Ended up having to re-post the few entries I made before I got access to the MySQL database…

  • IBM get’s it – on two levels

    I have been reading Irving’s blog for a while. He always has some of the most extensive, well though out posts of any of the subscriptions I have in my “deep thoughts” folder. What struck me about this post is that it’s aling the same lines as something I have been playing around with in…

  • Microsoft Fading?

    A compelling summary of why Microsoft strategy lacks a critical piece.  Of course hey have faced hard times before, but this may be fundamentally different.  There is a big debate going in in the ISV community over who to buddy up with.  This is certainly something to consider. » Ray Ozzies vision lacks an economic…

  • Set my transcripts free

    Having been on the giving end of a few media interviews in my day, I couldn’t agree more with Dana’s idea that the recordings of those interviews should be posted for public consumption. There have been a few times when the compression of a 60 minute discussion into a 400 word article have resulted in…

  • Chickens at Target

    Since the TSA decided that toothepaste is no longer a threat to national security, I headed over to the Super Target yesterday to pick up a few items that fall within the new rules. While there, I saw this: (Hint: look in the upper right had side of the pic). Now let’s say you had…