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Computing Nirvana |
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Saturday, 31 March 2007 10:24 |
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I've been threatening to do it for months. Last week, I finally did it. I jumped ship from the Evil Microsoft Monopoly, and purchased a MacBook. The decision was tough. I've been a loyal Dell notebook user for years. My work involves using several proprietary Windows applications. But over the last few weeks, all of the pieces started falling together. |
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Wednesday, 21 March 2007 14:29 |
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Micro blogging. A two word summary for the latest web 2.0 craze called Twitter. Mash this up with some other web 2.0 stuff and you get TwitterVision. |
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Bypass Telus' IVR Voice Recognition Hell |
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Wednesday, 08 November 2006 08:20 |
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I'm not a big fan of Telus - our incumbent telecomminications carrier in BC. I've had many run-ins with them over the years. Their customer service sucks. Last year, they added insult to injury and installed a hellish automated voice recognition system that you have to navigate before you can actually reach a human. It's infuriating. It insults you. Pounding zero gets you a "Here at Telus, we have several kinds of operators. Tell me more about what you're looking for so I can direct you to the right kind of operator." |
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Is the Dell Exploding Battery Problem Bigger Than They Admit? |
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Friday, 13 October 2006 08:15 |
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A funny thing happened to me the other night. I was at home. It was late. The rest of the family had gone to sleep, and I was up late trying to win a few more levels on Lego Star Wars 2 on the Xbox. At about 1:30am, I decided to go to bed. As I was switching off the lights, I smelled a strange hot plastic kind of smell. Following the smell, I suddenly realized it was my wife's Dell Inspiron 9200! The charge light was blinking orange and green. The smell was awful. I quickly yanked the power cord out of the back of the machine, and flipped it over. The heat coming from the bottom of the laptop was incredible. I literally burned my hands while ejecting the battery from the laptop. After placing the battery on the balcony, i returned to inspect the laptop. Thankfully, there was no damage - the unit still powered up with the AC cord, and there was no visible heat damage. |
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APRS on Google Maps |
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Monday, 02 October 2006 14:54 |
I ran across an interesting utility the other day. It allows the overlaying of APRS data on top of Google Earth. The utility is called APRSKML, and can be found here. The utility is well documented, and I was able to set it up within minutes. If you're in the south central BC area, try the following settings (on the APRS IS screen):
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