I decided to buy an an Ogio Metro backpack for my European vacation. It was on my short list last year when I was searching for a new laptop backpack but I was frustrated by the lack of local availability and the scarcity of pictures of its innards so I ended up buying a Tumi […]
Archive for April, 2005
Ogio Metro Pictures / Review
30Apr05Boys & Toys
28Apr05Someone brought their son to work today as a Career Day thing. Our facilities are pretty darned bland, so stopping by office was probably a highlight. “Look at the robot”, his mother said, pointing to the Robosapien. I turned it on and hit the Dance button. The kid giggled for a moment, then he noticed […]
Mena goes postal (not really)
27Apr05Kottke laments the loss of individual voices and innovations to corporations.
Consider Six Apart as an example of what I’m talking about. 6A is like a black hole for creative people. Folks who, a year or two ago, were among the leading voices in the discussion of how weblogs were changing our culture, were coding all […]
Upgrades
26Apr05My new memory card and batteries arrived on Monday. It amazes me that someone thought miniSD isn’t small enough and came up with Transflash. In the camera, the new miniSD card is much faster than my ancient 128MB SD card. Shooting in continuous mode the camera seems to be able to write pictures to the […]
Clippy to the rescue!
26Apr05I am so in love with The Daily Show.
Hi Robert.
Hosting Conned
26Apr05OSI Hosting.net: Deception in Texarkana. Newforge explains how they were duped into writing two stories about a hosting company that falsly claimed to have 12,000+ dedicated server customers, 16,000 new dedicated orders during a 3-4 week period, to have ordered 1,000 servers from Apple, 25,000 servers from IBM, planned to open 485,000 square feet of […]
Flick my Bic
25Apr05So, what is the best way to sneak my disposable lighter through airport security? I can’t stand matches — besides being difficult to use outdoors, they make me sneeze. Having to buy a new lighter at every airport is terribly inconvenient, especially since most shops are inside the security zone and will have presumably stopped […]
Go Navy
25Apr05My (half-) brother has started the process of enlisting in the Navy. They gave him some take-home drug tests.
I am thrilled beyond words that he has finally decided to do something. For years he’d planned to join the Army on his 18th birthday, but that date came and went in 2002. Can’t really blame the […]
