Pirelli blows

The Audi A3 came with Pirelli P-Zero tires.  Let me just say, they sucked.  They were always pretty bad but the last couple of months they had become very loud.  Recently the threads(!) started showing in the middle ridge.  So, looked for a deal and got…

SageTV and Components

Not ready to take the plunge just yet but I'm really close to going with Sage.  The primary reason is that there will finally be a method of capturing Component video.  Specifically, the HD channels we get on DirecTV!  Hauppauge is coming out with this device in about…

The answer?

In my never ending quest to find an easy way to blog I'm trying Flock.  I've always heard mixed things about it but I believe it supports Firefox extensions and that's always been one of the things I really like about Firefox.  So, I&…

Streamlining

I've found that one of my biggest reasons for not posting is that it's not easy.  Well, I'm trying out WordPressDash now so we'll see if that makes a difference.…

Trends

Via Digg:  Trends in purchasing habits. The first graph is kind of interesting for the last column.  But not terribly surprising either. The second graph is simply amazing.  The adoption rate of new trends changed completely after the Color TV.  Look at a graph like that…

Putty tabs!

Via CiscoBlog.com I've discovered PuttyCM.  This act's as a wrapper for putty and gives you session management and tabs.  It can do a bunch of other cool tricks like tiled windows and encryption of the configuration database.  It's not quite as advanced as…

Itty bitty vastness

It takes a while to go through it but it's pretty cool: http://www.nikon.co.jp/main/eng/feelnikon/discovery/universcale/nano.swf…