Eengstro on February 28th, 2008

In November I posted that my Antec NeoPower 480 power supply had died. Antec’s warranty came through, and I received a new Antec NeoPower 500 a few days later to replace the dead 480.
Three months later, I got around to actually installing this new power supply. Yeah, I’m lazy like that sometimes.
The new NeoPower [...]

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Eengstro on February 28th, 2008

Out of North Carolina comes this example of extreme stupidity:

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — Elizabeth City State University is offering counseling to faculty and students after some became unknowing participants in an emergency response drill.
The News & Observer of Raleigh reported in Wednesday’s editions that an armed man burst into a classroom Friday, threatening [...]

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Eengstro on February 27th, 2008

Don’t worry, I don’t actually hate Cal Poly. I wouldn’t even normally say “Fuck Cal Poly”, except when dealing with parking.
But, as of now, entering Fuck Cal Poly into Google returns my very own humble site at position #1. The offending post? Cal Poly Band by the Numbers of course!
All I can say [...]

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Eengstro on February 27th, 2008

I’m unusual in that I’m a technology guy who prefers a cell phone that is simply a phone without a lot of bells and whistles. For this reason, I continued carrying my trusty Audiovox 9100 phone for six years. Yes, I carried the same cell phone for six years.
Now, the End Has Come. [...]

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Eengstro on February 26th, 2008

Question: What if you want to listen to music while your iPod is plugged into a computer?
Say you want to listen to your iPod at work, but discover that your iPod’s battery is dead. If you’re like me, you probably have a perfectly good computer at your desk with perfectly good USB ports which [...]

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Eengstro on February 25th, 2008

This article by Victor Davis Hanson is a good example of why he’s a professional writer and I’m not.
First, he briefly explains how the Republicans have fucked up in the past few years, bringing us to the brink of electing the most liberal candidate since George McGovern. Then he articulates many of the fears [...]

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Eengstro on February 21st, 2008

Change seems to be the latest buzzword in politics these days, so I figured I would examine it a bit. Right away, it should be obvious that “change” is nothing but an empty word when it is invoked without context — and the Obama campaign has provided little context. So, I’m going to go out [...]

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Eengstro on February 13th, 2008

There was a congressional hearing being carried live on all the news stations this morning. The Congress must be tackling some incredibly grave and important issue to warrant that kind of news coverage.
Subject of the hearing: Steroids in baseball.
As a country, we must be in pretty good shape if the Congress has nothing [...]

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