When the XM PCR radio came out in 2003 I immediately bought one so I could use it at the office. The computer controlled aspect of the radio was great and less messy than some of the other XM radio options available at the time. We used it for a while, but it sat languishing …
On January 18th, 2009 I ran the Chevron Houston Marathon – my first full marathon – and finished in 4 hours, 54 minutes and 42 seconds. The Event The full and half marathon events began at the same time with groups separated into two waves. The second wave, which I was in, began 10 minutes …
A previous post discussed using an Intel D945GCLF2 Atom-based mainboard for a little mini server setup. It’s been working great, except for that damn fan for the memory controller. It was pretty noisy at first, but quickly degraded into a crunching worthless disaster. The product review comments at newegg described this exact behavior so I …
In 2000 I began work on a client application for the ICB chat system. At the time, the best client for the system was the old-school UNIX client that worked using a terminal interface. For things like chat, terminal interfaces are fantastic but at some point they began to stop keeping pace with the rest …