I was discussing airplanes with my father earlier today and how the advent of smaller, more affordable jet aircraft will likely affect air travel of the future. Right now such aircraft are so expensive that only very wealthy folks or corporations can afford to take advantage of them. But with new “air taxi” services starting … Continue reading Are airports destined to be the bus terminals of the future?
Although somewhat variable depending if you get them fresh or not Chili’s fries rate a solid 4 out of 5 for me. These are strip fries that generally are slightly crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. They hold their salt well and have a pleasant peppery seasoning sprinkled over them.
I *do* like my french fries. While you must head to North Africa, specifically Morocco, for the best fries that I’ve found to date, there are plenty of great offerings here in continental North America. On a scale of 5, with 5 being the best, I’d give the fries at Taco Mac a solid 4.
Holy cow! My TIVO offered me “Wildest Police Videos” today in the suggestions section so I thought I’d take a peek. The special effects are even worse now than they were before when I gave up watching it a couple of years ago. I really enjoy watching the type of videos presented in this show, … Continue reading Wildest Police Videos – Who thinks those special effects are helping the show?
I run Vista Home Premium and am using iTunes 7.5 as I write this. I’m currently ripping the latest Harry Potter audiobook so that I can listen to it on my iPod. For most discs I am prompted to choose which “album” I wish to use. For consistency I am going with each track named … Continue reading How to fix choosing the wrong CDDB album when ripping CDs in iTunes?
I won’t debate the ethics of ripping and sharing CDs in this post. Suffice it to say that folks who know me know my stand on this issue. Where I can get audiobooks already in MP3 format I just do that. It saves a LOT of hassle. I even will get them in DRM’d format … Continue reading How to rip an audiobook to iTunes so it has bookmarks
I heard recently about thieves who were using handheld RFID scanners to determine the contents of tractor trailer trucks to see which ones would be worth breaking into. Such a double-edged sword can be these devices which offer so much convenience for retailers to maintain their inventory. One of the practices that keep shoppers safe, … Continue reading Prediction: Within 2 years it will be pretty common for thieves to be using RFID
As someone who was in residence in Gate House for two years (I had the great two level corner room all to myself for that second year) I read this with both some alarm and some amusement. This article was forwarded to me by another Gate House Alum whom I won’t name in case he … Continue reading *Sniff* Gate House takes it in the shorts
It’s too bad that they don’t actually tell you about this when you are, I don’t know, actually purchasing your computer! I picked up a new Dell Inspiron 530 computer back in early October of 2007 and saw that, in spite of having paid for 4 Gigabytes of RAM, the system reported only 3.2 Gigabytes. … Continue reading You have Vista on a computer reporting only 3.2 Gigabytes of RAM on a system with 4 Gigabytes installed
We share our music library by keeping separate copies on each of our machines. This works MUCH better then trying to share using a network drive (speed-wise). For simplicity, the decision needed to be made to choose a master copy and then find some way to ensure that the slave would keep up-to-date as songs … Continue reading iTunes Library updater keeps 2nd iTunes machine in sync
