Storage is cheap, or so we’re told. Amazon will sell me storage for $0.055/GB/month in the cloud; 3.5″ hard drives are hovering around $0.06/GB. However, my laptop has a little 250GB SATA drive that is (a) slow and (b) getting full. So I desire to replace it with a fast little SSD. But that raises [...]
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60,000 scrobbles
I used to post these on Facebook as Notes, but since the Timeline refactor, I frankly have no idea how to use Notes; so I guess I’ll just post on my own blog. I use last.fm (me) to track my music-listening habits (and sometimes for other things). As of some time recently, I’ve passed 60,000 [...]
Kindle vs. Kindle
So, you might have heard about Amazon’s new Kindles. They’re kind of a big thing. There’s even talk that Jeff Bezos is the New Steve Jobs, which is kind of silly, but serves to underscore the point that Amazon is big news these days. Anyway, you might also remember from an earlier post of mine [...]
TouchPad!
So, I got one of the Internet-legendary $99 TouchPads (well, $149 actually, but whatever). As some of you may know, I was an enormous Palm fanboy during the 90′s. So it was pretty inevitable that I would end up purchasing one of their WebOS products, even though there’s not a lot in common between this [...]
Rawr, Lion
If you’ve read any kind of tech news in the last few days, you might’ve noticed that Mac OS X 10.7 Lion is out. I wasn’t going to upgrade for a while, but then it launched and I did. So I’ve been using Lion for a few days now, and I thought I’d join the [...]
