Author Archives: Silicon Valley Dazed
Terabyte drive for under $200
Right now, you can find sales for 500 Gb drives for under $200. My guess is that by Christmas 2007, you’ll be able to find terabyte drives for under $200. Come on Hitachi, Western Digital, and Seagate, let’s see what your labs can pump out in 18 months.
Subway Rider Sliced in Power Saw Attack – New York Times
Subway Rider Sliced in Power Saw Attack – New York Times NEW YORK (AP) — A man grabbed two cordless power saws off a subway station workbench and went on a rampage Thursday, swinging the saws at riders and slicing open a man’s chest before running away, police said. Someone should check if Bruce Campbell … Continue reading
A peach of a scandal in Georgia | Salon.com
A peach of a scandal in Georgia | Salon.com The key paragraph: “Had I known then what I know now, I would not have undertaken the work,” he said, when the details came out in a Senate Indian Affairs Committee report. Mr. Reed insists he didn’t know it was gambling money, which, given the e-mail … Continue reading
I Desperately Need Bone Marrow | The Onion
I Desperately Need Bone Marrow | The Onion My love of bone marrow started when I worked as a lab technician in the leukemia ward at the local hospital. I was enjoying a lunch of clam chowder and crackers when I pulled a fresh sourdough baguette out of my satchel. I soon realized I hadn’t … Continue reading
Robbie McEwen helping out in the mountains
Robbie McEwen helping out in the mountains CN: This will have some implications for the team with Cadel’s position and he must now be a big contender for the GC?RM: He was always going to be a contender anyway but under these circumstances simply on the basis of mathematics from last year we are going … Continue reading
Automatic Enkoder
Automatic Enkoder Posting your email address on a website is a sure-fire way to get an Inbox full of unsolicited email advertisements. The Enkoder protects email addresses by converting them into encrypted JavaScript code, hiding them from email-harvesting robots while revealing them to real people. I used Enkoder to convert all the html email links … Continue reading
Three for one
This trap was catching large rats that were digging into the compost bin. It looks like it took three smaller mice to trip the same trap. Sometimes it doesn’t pay to share, since if only one mouse had eaten at a time, it probably wouldn’t have had enough pressure to trip the trap. If you … Continue reading
Chew on This
Press Release for Chew on This published by Houghton Mifflin Company • A single fast-food hamburger may contain meat from hundreds, even thousands, of different cattle. • Each can of soda contains more than ten teaspoons of sugar. • A single animal infected with E. Coli 0157:H7 can contaminate thirty-two thousand pounds of ground beef. … Continue reading
SnapStream Blog » Blog Archive » Beyond TV 4.3 Delivers More TV!
SnapStream Blog » Blog Archive » Beyond TV 4.3 Delivers More TV! Today, Beyond TV 4.3 delivers more TV to my HTPC. Beyond TV now supports ShowSqueeze for HDTV recordings! I can take massive ATSC transport streams and ShowSqueeze them down to a very manageable DivX or Windows Media format files. Beyond TV 4.3 also … Continue reading
Blogger still a performance dog
I just tried to post to Blogger, and it’s still performing slowly. Google. Need. More. Servers.