I write about the things I find interesting. It’s really random stuff.
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As expected, Ars Technica presents their usual deep analysis of iOS 8: iOS 7 and iOS 8 feel like two halves of the same update, two equally necessary steps in the journey from Old iOS to Modern iOS. iOS 7…
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“Kobo’s offering is the peak in terms of e-reader hardware right now…
Techcrunch reviews the Kobo H2O: “Kobo’s offering is the peak in terms of e-reader hardware right now – Amazon’s device is slightly smaller and lighter, but you get a far superior screen from the Aura H2O, as well as the…
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Old blog posts added
[UPDATE 09/20/2014] I have completed Drupal migration. [UPDATE 09/28/2014] I’ve added my old Movable Type posts. Still a lot of cleansing that has to happen and relinking of images. [UPDATE 09/30/2014] I have cleansed and reformatted posts to Jan 2003. Still trying to…
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I don’t know how this sells Cup Noodle ramen
I don’t know how this sells ramen, but I’m not complaining.
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USB Sound Cards: Omni Surround Pro 5.1 vs. Recon 3D USB vs. X-Fi 5.1 Pro
Update [2014-05-16]: I updated some thoughts below on sound quality. [Update 2014-09-14]: Added a pretty big caveat to the Omni Surround. I am a bit nuts about external USB sound card / DAC /AMP combos. I’ve bought 3 from the same…
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Getting old posts back in 2014 and the new Fuji X-T1
My site has been running in some form since 2002. However, I have lost data multiple times and I have always meant to go back…get my old posts back on the web, but I never do. It doesn’t help that…
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Well, that was unpleasant
So I had some server unpleasantness that I noticed after I posted my 2014 Goals post. The site just froze and logins were barely possible. I immediately SSH’d into the prgmr.com server, but was greeted by an extremely slow console.…
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Goals for 2014
I’ve been thinking about 2014 and what, if any, goals I have. For the past few years, I don’t think I’ve been focusing much on me as a person–there were other more concrete things that I could latch on like…
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pfSense on Watchguard Firebox x550e
[UPDATED – 2014-11-24]: I noticed that I had gotten the model wrong in the title of the article. Fixed that. One of the odd things as I have moved up the food chain into (product) management is that I don’t…
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pfSense performance on an HP T5720 Thin Client
Working pretty well so far. Uses about 25 Watts (with USB enabled). It handles unencrypted traffic flawlessly. OpenVPN connections (using the AMD GEODE LX encryption block) via my StrongVPN account tops out at about 30 Mbits per second down. It…