Tom’s occasional rambling thoughts
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iPod Touch wifi issue
Just thought I throw this out here in case someone else has the problem and does not feel like plowing through the hundreds of comments on other sites. My lovely little iPod Touch decided that it did not want play networking anymore, going into the settings menu yielded the message No wi-fi and the wi-fi…
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Bing?
(Oops, forgot to publish this last week.) There must be someone at MS with a sense of humor after all or perhaps John Cleese is consulting for them. Monty Python had a scit where a medical machine was brought into a hospital whose only redeeming value was that it went bing! Funny that MS wants…
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Global warming?
I have been hearing a lot more talk lately about how global warming is bunk. Or that if it is happening then mankind is not to blame, that what is happening is just part of a natural cycle. Let’s look at it this way instead, no matter how one feels about this topic the actions…
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First post from ipod
Just trying this out, picked up the wordpress app for for my iPod. Pretty nice can do all usual stuff on the blog and I don’t have turn on the big computer. I am being so green.
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Odd phone call – scam?
Just got a call from “cardholder services” letting me know I could lower my interest rate to 6.9%, just press nine to talk to operator. I was curious so I bit, first thing I ask the person who comes is what bank are you from and her reply is what card do you have? OMG!!…
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My 15 minutes?
I think that I got my 15 minutes of fame today, while listening to one of my favorite podcasts, The Daily GizWiz, a letter I sent was read out. A couple weeks ago I had sent in a letter asking Leo Laporte to not sing with the jingles, when I was listening episode 769 in…
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Google vs Live search
Sometimes we hear about how google searches are no longer any good and Microsoft likes to make it sound like their search is so great but every time I use Windows Live search I am disappointed and when the same search is run at google I generally find what I need on the first page.…
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Circuit city going away
and I am not sad about that, except for the employees, this sucks for them. I quit going to Circuit City when they started that DIVX disk idiocy, that was a bad to begin with and died the death it deserved. The few times I did go in the local store I was typically frustrated,…
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Obama rally or shakedown?
Had a weird thing today, there was a rally downtown for Obama so we went by just out of curiosity but they would not let me in to the ball room until I had made a donation, quite odd since they were doing an auction at the time, might have wanted to bid on something.…
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What’s up with Safari?
So I was checking out digg on the iPod touch yesterday and saw an interesting link there about why one should jailbreak their iPhone, well when I visited it safari crashed, makes me wonder, coincidence? Then later I was checking some other sites and safari was crashing on those too. It seems that Apple has…
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iPod Touch updated
Went on a bit of rant there, oh well, I was very irritated with all the time I had spent on trying to get the update to install. Finally found a document which solved my problems. Turns out I just had to put the iPod into recovery mode and and let itunes do its stuff.…
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What is up with Apple?
I am feeling a quite frustrated with Apple today. Over the weekend I thought I would update my ipod touch to the new 2.1 firmware so I went into itunes paid my 9.95 (had not paid for 2.0 yet) and then nothing. The only download that happens is a little 0.4 kb file which does…
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Where are the troops now?
Earlier this decade a lot of conservatives were saying that even though Saddam Hussein did not have WMD it was good thing we took him out because the Iraqi people were suffering under him. Well, what I want to know why in the world is Bush not sending hundreds of thousands of troops into Myanmar…
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Interesting poster
I was downtown a couple weeks and there was an anti-abortion group there with a large poster on the side of an RV. It was an interesting message they had, the caption on the sign was “He’s not heavy he’s my brother.” The picture was that of a fetus apparently in utero. I found this…
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Worthless Poll
Will the demise of HD DVD push you to buy a Blu-ray hi-def player? I win! I bought Blu-ray already. Too late, I bought HD DVD and I’m stuck. No, I’m waiting for hi-def downloads. No, I don’t need a hi-def DVD player. What’s HD DVD? So this poll which appeared at Computerworld after Toshiba…
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Grant’s solo
It is fixed now, took some messing around to get the software to output a true letterbox, essentially created DVD files with the aspect set to 4×3 and the had the black bars added top and bottom then ripped the video to a new file. Seems like there should be an easier way to do…
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Interesting googleness
I was considering installing XP today on a new drive I picked up last week (a vast expanse of 500 gigabytes woohoo) when it occurred to me that the next service pack for XP is due out soon. Wanting to save some time since it can typically take an hour or so to install a…
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Todays Quote
When I logged into my linux box this morning the quote that come up was: “He is the best of men who dislikes power.” Interesting quote that and also interesting that this apparently came from Muhammad. I’ll leave the interpretation to the reader.
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Visual Studio 2008
I got a copy of visual studio 2008 at work and was eager to give it a try after going to a demo at microsoft and heard about its capabilities. For the most part it worked well but it has given some problems that make non-starter for me. The big one is that I was…
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iPhone/iPod Touch Development
So Apple announced that third part development will be allowed on the iPhone and iPod touch, very cool news and certainly took them long enough to realize the desire there. As I thought about this more I realized why Apple took the stance they did initially, they could see that this product was going to…
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