Archive for June, 2006

Last Place at Carcassonne

This picture says it all! Justin Findlay with some used headphones from the geek trade. I would say it was mostly a DI drive in disguise, but I am only looking at it from one perspective, my willingness to dump 20G of 2G SCSI drives so I don’t have to actually go to [...]

June 17, 2006 • Posted in: Tech • No Comments

Everybody Blogged about UtahBlogger

And I recorded it. Audio is here!
OGG
MP3
Please only download these links…don’t stream them. Also, the audio isn’t perfect, but it works well enough if you have a decent set of speakers, so enjoy.
I will also speak to Jayce^’s post a little here. I completely agree that the panel was a bit off [...]

June 14, 2006 • Posted in: Tech • No Comments

My T60p is here!!!

After only three days of waiting, and it passing through Hong Kong, Alaska and Louisville to Utah, my T60p is here.
I started playing with it last night, its been so much fun.  Here’s a couple things I’ve enjoyed so far….
ThinkVantage Recovery Diskettes – 7 total just in case I wanna restore that ol’ winders xp [...]

June 13, 2006 • Posted in: Passion, Tech • One Comment

Am I a Hotel Snob, or am I Justified? You Decide!!

So recently I went on a trip to New Mexico for work. You know, the normal ’spend a week in a good hotel’ type week.
I have never before stayed in a La Quinta Inn (for work) and was a little skeptical, but figured it might be a good place to stay. Boy was [...]

June 13, 2006 • Posted in: Passion • One Comment

My T60 is on its way!!!

So I checked my email today, and noticed my lovely Thinkpad T60 I ordered last week is really on its way.
Here is the status from UPS:

LOUISVILLE, [...]

June 9, 2006 • Posted in: Tech • No Comments

Getting Skinny (and win cash) at LardWars.com

A while back I posted about creating a new LardWars weight loss competition site. Well, I really haven’t done much with the site. That aside, when Harley Pig posted his “Holy Corpulence” piece recently, it prompted me to invite anyone to join our next Lard Wars competition, Lard Wars II – Revenge of [...]

June 5, 2006 • Posted in: Tech • One Comment

Coloring and ls

So I was recently teaching the RH033 course in Phoenix, Arizona, when one of my students asked me what the colors meant when running ls -l from their prompt. I knew that the command had been aliased, and that it was actually running ‘ls -l –color=tty’ and I explained this to her, and that’s [...]

June 4, 2006 • Posted in: Tech, Tools • One Comment