August 17th, 2011

Tethering BlackBerry PlayBook to AT&T GoPhone

I was in the US last weekend for the NASCAR race and brought my trusty PlayBook with me. When I visit the US I use an AT&T GoPhone sim card to avoid the ridiculous roaming charges that the national carriers charge. I added 100 Mb of data to my pre-paid plan and used data [...]

July 14th, 2011

Internet is a Scary Place

I just used the Internet without ClickToFlash or Flashblock installed. Wow. The Internet is a scary place. There are so many Flash advertisements its crazy.

June 2nd, 2011

Push Information

I love push information: e-mail, IM, RSS, tweets (these last two examples technically polling, but let’s not split hairs)–information sent directly to you, as soon as its available. It makes things much more efficient, allows for quick dissemination of information, and provides opportunity to easily discard information that isn’t of interest to you at [...]

April 22nd, 2011

Starbucks, PlayBook, Flickr, YouTube, White Mocha

This morning after church Adam, Kyla, and I went to Starbucks to enjoy a beverage and company. It was a nice day so we sat on the patio. I was showing Adam and Kyla some photos from Will and I’s east coast trip on a PlayBook when, simultaneously, two things happened: 1. Adam saw [...]

October 23rd, 2010

October 23, 2001

You know what happened 9 years ago today? The iPod was first announced.

Happy anniversary, iPod!

October 17th, 2010

In-wall Speakers in my Dining Room

I have installed in-wall speakers in my dining room!

You may recall that I bought a pair of JBL LS326W in-wall speakers for my dining room. A little over a month ago I bought a bunch of in-wall speaker wire, volume controls, distribution box, etc. to start wiring this up. Today I finally did [...]

October 7th, 2010

Boring

Want to read something boring that I think is pretty awesome? Here you go.

September 30th, 2010

Mozart’s Symphony No. 40, Visualized

Last night I had the pleasure of attending “A Piano Celebration” at the NAC. It was a great performance–the first in the Signature Series for the 2010-2011 orchestra season. I enjoyed it so much that I have become even more upset that I will miss the orchestra’s performance of Mozart’s “Triple Crown”–symphonies 39, 40, [...]

May 21st, 2010

Wired for Sound

I am really excited about some sound gear I have ordered. Allow me to take you on a tour. As valuable background information: I will be moving in a few weeks and will have some rooms that I don’t have speakers for.

My current surround sound setup will go in the basement with the [...]

February 8th, 2010

Novelty E-mail Addresses

There was a time when e-mail was new to all of us. If you are of my generation then the idea of your own personal e-mail address probably came at a time when the username part of the e-mail address was an opportunity for self-expression. As we’ve aged, most of us have outgrown our [...]