Category Archives: Tech

Xbox 360 HD-DVD Player

Posted on February 28, 2008 by admin

I decided to get the Xbox 360 HD-DVD add-on this week, since the price came down to $50 in the wake of Blu-Ray’s victory over HD-DVD.   So far, I’m impressed with the picture quality and the menu system that … Continue reading →

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Select Specific Tab with Keyboard Hotkey in Firefox

Posted on July 23, 2007 by admin

This is pretty neat and I can’t believe I didn’t know about this.  Turns out that there’s a hotkey combo to select a specific tab in Firefox. This is really handy for me when using webapps like Meebo that I … Continue reading →

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Dell Sued for Deceiving Customers

Posted on May 17, 2007 by admin

I was especially amused to read this after the experience I went through with Dell back in January. I’ll sum up my post from the comment thread here: I’m glad to see these crooks get slapped around a bit after … Continue reading →

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Xbox 360 video streaming with TVersity

Posted on May 3, 2007 by admin

Since buying a new router the other day, I decided to muck around with streaming video from my PC to my Xbox 360. It used to be that you needed a PC running Windows Media Center for this, but as … Continue reading →

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My wallet has been taking a beating lately

Posted on December 15, 2006 by admin

Two weeks ago, I finally broke down and bought an Xbox 360. I’d been waiting for a deal, and I finally got a good one. Gamestop offered $80 in trade ($35 more than usual) for an Xbox and $45 for … Continue reading →

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Hey look! A new post!

Posted on November 4, 2006 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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Damn you Fry's!

Posted on September 29, 2006 by admin

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, … Continue reading →

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