Posted on Sun 24 June 2007 in geek
It took almost 24 hours to sync my music collection to the USB drive on my laptop over WiFi. It seems the combination of network and drive keeps the PC quite busy servicing interrupts even if it's not actually doing much. I wanted to take some films with me but …
Posted on Thu 21 June 2007 in geek
I was a little worried that the rather cute portable HD was broken as I tried to sync my music collection to it this evening. After a bit of poking around I discovered the USB hub was getting very hot. I don't know if this is directly it's fault or …
Posted on Tue 19 June 2007 in general
Fliss was up for the weekend for Rocky Horror. I bowed to the inevitable (as well some practicalities) and gave Fliss her birthday present a week early. I'm pretty sure she likes her new Evoke-3 DAB Radio. It's quite a full featured radio which along with the very handy multi-alarm …
Posted on Fri 15 June 2007 in geek
In a remarkable display of the world organising it's self for my benefit I'm being sent by my company to the Ottawa Linux Symposium in a week or so. This is kind of handy as I start my holiday (in Ottawa) the following week. This of course does involve a …
Posted on Tue 12 June 2007 in general
Not much to report on Maelstrom. Suffice it to say I had a good time. Someone commented that it's hard to get frustrated in your ambitions when your goals are being able to get to the bar. The weather was nice although a little stifling during the day, luckily I …