I picked up an Acer Aspire One netbook for my wife for Christmas. It makes a pretty good couch and travelling computer simply because it’s so small, and so inexpensive. The one I picked up has 512mb of RAM, 8gb of SSD, and runs Linux (Linpus). I got it refurbished, and I guess the previous […]
Months ago I installed a player for some DRM’ed media from Hiro Media, which was having a noticeable impact on my system. I caught their daemon running in the background consuming ~10% of my CPU when I wasn’t watching any video. I couldn’t find any info on how to get rid of it, and after […]
Oil is down to $32/barrel, from a high of something like $140/barrel. What happened? I did some reading a few months ago on the price of oil, and came to the conclusion that nobody really knows exactly why the price of oil ends up where it does. Things that you think would change it don’t […]
Wow, I haven’t blogged much lately have I? Must be the Christmas season. I’m a little disappointed that Google hasn’t done a better job indexing the recipes.stevex.net site. I actually got into the habit of adding “stevex” to searches when I search for recipes. For example, Googling for baked french fries stevex. But look at […]
I’ve put enough electronics through the wash that I think this is a great idea: a Washer/Dryer Safe USB Drive. I put my Audiovox Windows Mobile phone (SMT5600) through the wash a couple years ago, and I was amazed that it came out unscathed. So maybe these things are mostly washer safe, I don’t know. […]
I’m in Canada, and every Christmas, we make at least one trip to the US to do some shopping. We don’t necessarily buy a lot there, but it’s just interesting going and seeing some of the Black Friday madness and occasionally picking up a deal or two. This year we didn’t go on Friday, we […]
I got invited to the PS3 Home beta / stress test this evening, so I logged in to have a look around and take some pictures. Here’s me waiting for some content to download. Home can download new world locations and other stuff in the background, so while the download was going on I was […]
The headline: “Windows 7 Next-Gen Graphics”. The teaser: “Windows 7 will usher in a host of changes all over the OS, including a major overhaul of the graphics architecture. Here’s what you can expect.”. From the article: The changes to the graphics landscape you can expect in 7 are not sea changes, but these relatively […]
Fable 2 was a short game. I enjoyed it, but sometimes in spite of itself. The menu system sucked, the spell system sucked, and the controls for moving around sucked. It took me until I was about 80% done before I figured out how spells work. And once I did figure it out, they still […]
I would be watching a movie right now (rented from the iTunes store), but: “The iTunes Store is unable to process Gift Certificates at this time”. I have credit in my iTunes account from a gift certificate, and it’s not able to use it for some reason. And there’s no option to not use it […]