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Digital converter coupons

Got my digital converter coupons in the mail this week. The end of analog TV is nigh! February 2009 is the turn off date.
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Coffee maker reviews

Many folks know I’m an extreme coffee fan, so I thought I’d review the various super-automatic espresso machines I’ve had or tried since 2003. These are in chronological clay texas holdempoker 100 gratuitesle poker gratuites à télécharger en ligneune régle du jeu pokerpoker gratuites bruelpoker multijoueur en lignepoker 3dpartie de poker gratuitesentrainement poker gratuitesjeu poker reseaujouer poker flashtricher au poker en ligneregles poker mainspoker gratuites pas en lignepoker gratuites netjeu de poker hors lignepoker gratuites patrick brueltélécharger jeux poker gratuitsholden poker gratuitesjeux poker omaha gratuitesjeu de poker en lignejeux de poker a telechargerregle de pokerpoker tournamenttexas holdem on linepoker avec argent virtuelregle poker casino,poker casino,jouer poker casinologiciel poker en lignejeu poker tourregles du texas holdemtilt pokerjeux pokerpoker texas gratuitesjeu world pokerjouer poker omaha gratuitesregle world pokerregles de jeu pokerpoker 3d gratuitesjeu poker gratuites francaisjeux de pokerjouer argent pokerpoker gratuites pour macjeu de poker onlinejouer au poker sans argentpoker en ligne patrick brueljouer poker omahale poker gratuites sans téléchargementcomment bien jouer au pokertelecharger jeu pokerpartie poker gratuites order:

Gaggia Compact

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Jonathan Coulton

After playing through Portal (awesome game, need to do a review soon), I heard a quirky song at the end by the monstrous computer who’d been trying to kill me. Well, it turns out this song was written by Jonathan Coulton, and I heard about his life story on TWiT. “Code Monkey” and “Re: Your Brains” are my favourite songs by him.

PS: If you’re wondering, Jonathan licenses under Creative Commons, so it’s ok for me to post the mp3s here.

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Woes of cancelling XBOX Live Gold

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Just got off the phone with XBOX Live. It takes 3 minutes to enter your corporate card to sign up for one month membership on the console to be able to do a demo at CES, and over 30 minutes on the phone (you cannot cancel on the console or online) to cancel this recurring charge. What a pain!

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Playing house with Gutsy Gibbon

Well, rumors of a user-friendly installation and easy compatibility for Ubuntu 7.10 are greatly exaggerated. Although it’s easy to use, it’s really quite difficult to install. Here are some of my trials and tribulations, and how I fixed them.

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Daylight Saving Time

Finally upgraded all my computers and slugs to take into account the Daylight Savings Time switch in November versus October. All my computers and clocks seemed to do it all automagically, but my slug didn’t. Here how I fixed the time on the NSLU2 running SlugOS (formerly OpenSlug). This particular slug runs the weather station using wviewweather, so you’ll see a 1 hour (not real) gap in the data when I did the adjustment yesterday.

  • login
  • ipkg update
    ipkg remove timezones
    ipkg install tzdata-americas
    rm /etc/localtime
    ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Mountain /etc/localtime
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POCSAG decoding

My current project is to get rid of my digital fire pager (and possibly those of other folks on the department who are interested).

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I purchased a Realistic PRO-57 scanner, which is easily modified (done) to add a discriminator output using the excellent instructions here. I also purchased a two level data slicer to provide a serial port output. With the serial input, I can have any computer or slug in my house (with serial-USB adapter) send me an e-mail or a text message when I get a page. I’ll keep y’all appraised if it works out.

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Useful apps for a BlackBerry

By popular request, here are the apps I use a lot and where to get them. This is a short entry so you can get to it by Blackberry:

* Can use internal GPS on my Blackberry 8310 (and others)

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Blackberry Curve 8310 review

My new phone (unfortunately, the red one, I wanted the silver one: They’ll swap it out when the titanium/silver one is available) came into the Boulder AT&T store on Tuesday. I called the AT&T main number and visited the website but neither gave any indication that the phone even existed. I paid $150 after rebate. This phone replaces my 8707v. As soon as I saw the Curve, I knew I wanted one, but the GPS was a necessary feature, so I waited for that version.

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RFC humour

More geek humour. RFCs are Requests for Comment, which actual define the internet’s protocols.

Of course, my favourites (keep in mind these are REAL RFCs) are:

  1. The Evil Bit
  2. Bird Packets