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Archive | December, 2006
Ford’s 300C (Ford Interceptor)
Cool, ran across a blog post about the new Ford Interceptor, Ford’s answer to the 300C from Chrysler (and the entire LX platform: Magnum, Charger, 300C)
Continue reading...Time for a New Digital Camera: Canon SD800
31. December 2006
Talk about timing… for Christmas this year I bought my mom the Canon SD700, and incredible camera. For the longest time I’ve had my Canon S400 and it has been good to me. But playing with my mom’s new SD600 this Christmas really made me want a new camera. That’s all good and well. So I break [...]
Continue reading...Chihuly!
29. December 2006
Dale Chihuly is a blown-glass artist. He had one of his exhibits at the Missouri Botanical Gardens that ends January 1st, 2007 and I got to see it… overall pretty cool, not really my bag though. The video on how the glass is made is probably the most interesting part. He did spend months integrating the [...]
Continue reading...Laptop Model Numbers are Confusing
29. December 2006
I was looking around the web at some laptop’s from different manufacturers and while some are so clearly laid out from lowest to highest (Apple) others seemed to be named in a completely random fashion, making it impossible to tell a damn difference between them without seeing a side-by-side comparison matrix (Lenovo, Samsung). Are these companies [...]
Continue reading...Perfectionists Should Fail Small and Fail Often
28. December 2006
I’m a perfectionist, I get it from my dad. He hates failing and therefore I hate failing. I didn’t notice until the end of college that I was actively avoiding things I wasn’t fantastic at just so I wouldn’t need to fail. It wasn’t under a year or two out of college that I realize [...]
Continue reading...Great List of Cross-platform Applications
28. December 2006
Free Software Magazine put together a great reference article of cross platform (OS-agnostic they call them) applications that are good solutions for Windows and Linux and some on Mac as well. I’ve always found this important so I can normalize my workflow regardless of the platform or machine I’m on. I also dabble back and forth [...]
Continue reading...I Hate Laptop Manufacturers
27. December 2006
This Christmas brought different laptops to some family members that I ended up helping setup and over all, looking at everything from a brand new Sony, to a new HP, to a new ThinkPad I have to say that I hate Laptop Manufacturers. There are three reasons for this: They all think creating their own utilities to [...]
Continue reading...XBox 360: Viva Pinata Review
26. December 2006
Ok huge thank you goes out to our man Laurence Hartje for putting together a hell of a Viva Pinata review for us all and here it is: Ok, now that I’ve spent about 20 hours with the game over the weekend (and only 7 achievements left), I feel as though I can write a mini [...]
Continue reading...OMG The Holidays are Almost Over
26. December 2006
Each year the holidays are a series of flights, car rides, family parties and just all around tons of fun, but an surprising amount of stress as well. I think every year except one, when my wife and I have done the Christmas shuffle trying to see all the families in all 3 states we’ve [...]
Continue reading...What Happens to Your Body When you Drink Coke
20. December 2006
Have a look at the original post… * In The First 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor allowing you to keep it down. * 20 minutes: [...]
Continue reading...Wii Video
20. December 2006
Use Wii Video 9 to encode videos that can be played on your Wii.
Continue reading...Top 10 Reasons to Upgrade to Java 6
13. December 2006
Awesome matrix of new features and compelling reasons to start using Java 6: Countdown Summary Who’s blogging about it ? Web Services Easy to use APIs for developing web service clients. Rajiv and Bob’s write first an introduction to web services with NetBeans 5.5 and then building a Java SE 6 client to eBay, included as one of the new samples [...]
Continue reading...Wii: Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess Review
12. December 2006
First let me prefix everything by saying I’m the type of guy that likes Gears of War on the XBox 360. I think Crysis looks awesome, WoW was a fantastic game but I always wished the graphics had looked more like Guild Wars and I don’t own a DS or plan on getting one and [...]
Continue reading...Wii Safety Guide, Hilarious
8. December 2006
So Kotaku linked to pages from the real Wii Safety Guide, and they are quite entertaining. Although it looks like The Icon Factory folks put together a set of their own additions to the guide… fantastic. Example of Real Example of Fake
Continue reading...Excellent Vista Version Matrix
7. December 2006
It’s all over the sites now, but ExtremeTech has an awesome Matrix of all the versions of Vista and all the features in them so you can quickly glance and see what you need. I still stand by my assessment that Home Premium is perfect for the Home/Gamer user. I don’t need BitLocker, Shadow Volume copy [...]
Continue reading...Playing DivX/XviD Content on XBox 360
5. December 2006
Sweet, ran across this great HOWTO on the subject.
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- Gears of War Movie Treatment Summary (145)
- Halo 3 Screenshots Analyzed (105)
- Time Crisis 4 Review (PS3) (79)
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- Which is the Hottest Java Web Framework? Or Maybe Not Java? (47)
- Dell 3008 WFP 30" LCD Review (40)
- Evolution of Water in Games, Best is Halo 3 (37)
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- Commentary: Stop Bringing Babies to R-Rated Movies
- The PC Game Market is Not Dead
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- E3: Street Fighter IV Extended Gameplay Video Video
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31. December 2006
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