Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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I'll never need a power outlet again!
I got this in last week, but was having some problems so I didn’t post until I had everything worked out. The “this” I’m talking about is a BatteryGeek external battery for my HP TC4400. I had been looking at the extra-long life batteries that connected directly to the tablet, but decided that since it…
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I hate the time change!
.!. First day of work after the time change and I remember now why I hate it so much. Coming to work in the day light is OK, but going home in the dark absolutely sucks. I guess there is some good news though on the horizon through: DST begins almost 3 weeks earlier next…
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Another football game
I went to see another Bengal’s game this weekend. I didn’t ask John to go with me as I was afraid he might kill himself on the stairs. To be honest the real reason was I actually got DeAnna to come with me. I’m not sure if that’s because I was going or because one…
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Test of new digital video camera: Creative DiviCam 428
As I mentioned in a previous post, I just got a new very simple (i.e. cheap) digital video camera, the Creative DiviCam 428. It’s not sold in the states, so I contacted a friend of mine who lives in Japan and asked him if he could pick one up for me. As luck would have…
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CADwire: Alibre to bundle Acrobat 3D
Just saw this story from Randall Newton at CADwire.net on the bundling of Acrobat 3D in every seat of Alibre. I get why it’s a big deal from a publishing standpoint (everyone has Acrobat on their desktop), but I’m not quite sure I agree with the point that Mr. Newton tries to make about this…
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Trying out Google AdSense
As you will have noticed already if you are reading my page in a browser (and not through an aggregator) I have added a few AdSense ads to my blog. This is less to make any money, but more to see how the model actually works. I don’t get enough traffic to do much more…
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Test of new portable recorder
.!. It’s raining toys in my office the last few weeks. I got my Creative DiviCam 428 in on Monday and when I got back in the office today, my Edirol R-09 audio recorder had arrived. I really like the size of it, the fact it takes SD cards and has replaceable batteries. It doesn’t…
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UGS Shape Search wins reader's choice award
Thanks to the reader’s at DE for all the votes. The recognition is appreciated! Desktop Engineering Magazine – November 2006 – Readers Choice Award
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Some competition for Google spreadsheets?
This is a really nice app and the guys at Google should take a look before they release their next rev. I really like the graphing features, especially the fact that you can get a permalink to any completed graph. Should make web based reporting, really easy. Online Spreadsheets – EditGrid