This was one of my Christmas gifts from the wife this year. I just (finally) hung it on the wall the other day. The picture isn’t the greatest due to the way my living room is lit, but I think it looks really slick.
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HD Radio
Lately I’ve been hearing ads for something called HD Radio. It promises to be what HD is to television – amazing detail, improved clarity, etc.
Sounds great! Now I can listen to 15 minutes of commercials every 20 minutes in stunning hi-def!
Seriously people, I don’t need HD Radio – what I really need is for radio to stop sucking. Annoying, obnoxious DJ’s and overly long, too-frequent commercial breaks should be a thing of the past. There isn’t a single radio station in this town that actually plays what I want to hear without trying to sell me something every five minutes. And what’s up with a station that constantly refers to itself as “rock radio” yet has talk shows for nearly a third of the day? Give me a break.
Go to XM or Sirius, you say? No thanks. I have enough monthly bills as it is. I wish I had the money to add a proper iPod kit to my car. If that were the case, this post wouldn’t even exist. I’ve had very little luck with FM transmitters, and the power outlet in my car doesn’t even work anymore anyways.
Hockeydog
Time to show off my dog as well as my wife’s creative talents. If this isn’t the cutest thing you’ve ever seen, you must be a Leafs fan:
Hey look! A new post!
I haven’t written for over a month, so I guess I should put something here, right?
I just got back late last week from a trip to the Oracle Openworld conference in San Francisco. It was my first trip to the Bay Area, and I took a couple hundred pictures, some of which I may even put up later. I also got to visit my godparents, who live in Sacramento and made the 1.5 hour drive to see me. All in all, a fun trip but a tiring one – walking up and down those hills is quite a workout!
I still haven’t gotten around to installing those new hard drives yet. I tried Vista for a little bit, but due to some weirdness I’m going back to XP until I feel a bit braver. Application support, at least for the apps I use, isn’t quite there yet. For example, I can’t even run Firefox unless it’s as admin. So I’ve been researching an unattended Windows install CD that integrates the latest patches and drivers for things like RAID – that way, if I need to attempt the install multiple times, I can save myself some work. I need to hurry up on this, as the wife has been itching to be able to use iTunes and Photoshop again.
Hockey season is upon us, and with the Sabres getting off to a 11-0-1 start, I have nothing to complain about. We picked a good year to get season tickets 
Now if only I could afford a new jersey…
‘Tis all for now – I keep telling myself I need to stay on top of this blogging thing. Who knows if I’ll ever achieve that.
Damn you Fry's!
So I was in Vegas this past week, and the last day we were there, my wife’s uncle says “Hey, if you’re looking for something to do, we could always go to Fry’s.”
They had Hitachi 500GB SATA hard drives, normally $229.99, on sale for $169.99 with a mail-in rebate to bring the price down to $129.99. I bought 2. They also had a 4GB flash drive, normally $169.99, on sale for $89.99 with another MIR to bring the price down to $69.99.
So much for keeping the credit card balances down. Damn you Fry’s!