Posts
2007
Is this blog "Geeky" ?
·625 words·3 mins
Consumerism
A friend, who shall remain nameless, has asked me if this was a “geeky” blog that she should stay away from due to it’s inaccessibility to the normal folk, presumably.
The new host awaits
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Personal
Technology
Well, after whole of 2 weeks, this site already needs more room 🙂
So, this blog is moving to a new host, which should lead to better performance, or so I hope.
Yourminis is not very user friendly
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Entertainment
Media
I decided to add some widgets from yourminis to my blog, but Alas, it isn’t nearly as simple as it should be. I consider myself pretty web savvy, but configuring the embed script that it generates is been nothing but trouble.
Did you subscribe to this site yet?
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Media
You really should subscribe, to avoid unpleasant situation that CNN ended up in. Today they finally discovered and broadcast a Video that my readers saw a week ago.
adir1.com — Your best source for early and relevant news!
It is official – Tipping point for H.264 reached
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Adobe
Media
MP4
Sony
Technology
I am glad to see I called this one correctly. Looks like tipping point for H.264 is finally here, and hopefully the support across the industry will accelerate from here on.
We have no Internet?
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Consumerism
Personal
Yep, our Internet is gone. Some very smart people from Atlanta Gas & Light (or so we hear) have dug out our neighborhood fiber-optic cable. This is even though entire ground is marked everywhere they worked, marked in all directions that it can!
Miro – Internet Video at it’s finest
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Entertainment
Streaming Video
Miro
Technology
Vuze
Miro is a new name for old time favorite Democracy player. Along with a new name, it got a grand redesign, which I like.
It is currently my High Definition Internet Video aggregator of choice, along with old time favorite Vuze, of course.
Happy Friday
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Entertainment
I guess I am just in a Happy Friday mood, so when I came across this golden oldie, while cleaning the over 2000 unread emails from my mailbox, I decided it warrants a post.
iPhone bill Blues
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Consumerism
Entertainment
First, I am glad that I am on e-billing, although I don’t have an iPhone yet.
Second, I am sure we had to work hard to produce such a huge bill 😉
MP4 on Windows Vista – Part Two
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h.264
Media Center
Technology
Windows
I am still struggling with exact instructions on creating not just any old MP4 file, but one that is XBOX 360 compatible. It turns out to be very very hard, for unknown reason.
Codec Wars and other plagues of our times
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Codec
Media
MP4
Technology
So, which Codec are you storing your Media in? Things like Home Movies, or recorded TV shows? How about your Music collection? Don’t even know or care what Codec is?
One Week Anniversary for the blog
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Personal
Recommendations
First, I promise not to celebrate each week in the future 🙂 , but I think the first week was so thrilling that it’s worth writing about.
Lets start with words on the platform itself, which is WordPress.
Dell and Game Changing Idea Storm
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Consumerism
Technology
Windows
Unbeknownst to most people, Dell launched a radically excellent web site to facilitate improved communications with their customers.
Dell’s IdeaStorm has a simple, yet powerful, concept. People (presumably Dell users and buyers) submit Ideas of what they would like to see improved/added/changed in Dell’s Products/Support/Services.
Windows Vista Thoughts
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Technology
Windows
I have been using Windows Vista since the second Beta. Lately I am increasingly accused of being Bill Gate’s fan boy and Windows Vista proponent, so here’s a post about my take on Vista.
Iraq, Prosperity and our Dangerous roads
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Government
Money
P2P Lending
Finance
I decided to give Prosper.com a try about a month ago (read my original thoughts on that), and today came across an interesting listing from our brave soldier currently deployed.
Cosmic Link
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Quantum Reality
Philosophy
Right after I spent my whole weekend pondering the question of which Platform to use for this very blog, Mashable comes up with a neat post about all kinds of Host options for your Blog.
Hello World!
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Hello World
Personal
Welcome to my blog.
Friends and Family finally convinced me to setup my very own corner of the web, so here it is. WordPress, which is what powering this awesome web site, sets you up with the first Hello World post, which I decided to keep, symbolically.