December 2007 Entries
Here are a few questions that I've recently found myself asking: in today's overprotected, overmanaged, overcompressed, over-portable world of music, where are the last holdouts of cheaply-available CDs? Where can I legally download music from a substantially large library in a format that can be played universally without rights management? Is there a such thing as a MP3 player that doesn't add DRM to all of the music I place on it?
Users of Windows-powered handhelds have long been able to upload unprotected media to their devices and play them back using Pocket Windows Media Player. I own a Tungsten E,...
Here are some raw numbers I've come up with while looking through my e-mail archives:
Average size of a teacher's e-mail to a single class: 17kb
Average size of a teacher's e-mail to all of his/her classes: 58kb
Average size of a faculty e-mail to an entire grade: 287kb
Average size of a faculty e-mail to everyone in the school: 682kb
Average size of an IT department e-mail to everyone in the school: 7kb
Total size of all e-mails received beginning July...
The main part of the site is back online and functioning, even if it's only a shadow of its former self. After a quarter of a year I more or less wanted to have some content other than a static HTML page lingering around
Sorry for the extremely short and ambiguous post as well.
Last year on December 23rd around 3:30 PM I began playing Twilight Princess. I finished the main storyline sometine in the afternoon on December 29th. Of course, no Legend of Zelda is complete without working one's way through the numerous sidequests available: weapon upgrades, improved abilities, new items, and so forth. I'll be honest: while I've completed the storyline to five Zelda games, I've never once managed to finish every single sidequest.
I figured that in my boredom, it might not be so bad an idea to actually finish an entire Zelda. That entailed obtaining every single item and weapon upgrade,...
I had an unusually good day today.
School's ripping out its old "Tandberg Educational Language Lab" from the '70s to make way for a new computerized system. As such, anybody that wants the equipment (headsets, audio cassette decks, and a control unit) is free to take it with permission from the Modern Language department. Today I picked up a headset; it uses an RJ-11 head instead of a stereo or mini-stereo head, so provided the two use the same signal I should be able to create an adapter with ease. If not, another trip to Radio Shack. Tomorrow I'm going to...
Despite the fact that my three previous phone calls to Hewlett-Packard ended in receiving a new case number and subsequently being sent to the back of the line, I went against my better judgment and gave their number another try. After spending the better part of my afternoon (5PM to 7PM) on hold, I finally received my first piece of information (other than, "We can't use your old case number."): I have a FedEx tracking number.
You may expect that, after an entire month, I'd at least be happy to know that the thing's coming back. Unfortunately, that's not the case:...
As I've mentioned to a number of people, my nx6325 randomly quit working a few days ago. I'm not entirely sure what happened: the machine unexpectedly powered off while I was editing a photo in Photoshop. Two days of attempts to boot the machine gave the same result: the power light would come on and then fans would spin, but the unit wouldn't produce any video, wouldn't POST, wouldn't beep if I overloaded the key buffer, and for that matter wouldn't even heat up after half an hour. It came with a standard three-year warranty, so after a bit of...