Archive for January, 2005

Stuff to Review

Remind me to review these things sometime:

Nintendo DS handheld gaming system
Dell Axim x30 624MHz PDA
Dell AIO A940 printer

Free Flat Screens

I suppose I have to toss this in sometime. If you’re planning to sign up for the site, use this link: get a freeFlatScreen. Thanks.

Another goes to work at Google

Firefox developer goes to Google. These aren’t people I really know, but dang. I want to work at Google too. Oh well.

Compliment of the Season

That’s the subject line of another scam email I got recently. Been awhile since I’ve seen one of these. I wonder what kind of response they’re getting?

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Free Mac Mini from FreeMiniMacs.com

Apple has released a very small Mac called the Mac Mini, and it will be sold for $499 (40 GB) and $599 (80 GB). It doesn’t include a monitor, keyboard, or mouse — but you can get those anywhere.

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Mac Mini in comparison to Dell

An article on MacWorld.com claims that the Dell isn’t cheap anymore, despite costing $100 less, when you consider all that it lacks in comparison to the Mac Mini.

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Year of Physics: 2005

The year 2005 has been proclaimed the “World Year of Physics” by the United Nations in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s “Annus Mirabilis”, in which he wrote a series of papers that revolutionized our conception of the universe.

Solution Found: Contact Texas Instruments to obtain the update

My computer is occassionally getting a BSOD on startup. Upon restart, I’m told to send an error report to Microsoft, which is followed by this report:

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Firefox source from CVS

I’m learning how to build Firefox from CVS. If you’re doing the same, this page, of course, is the key: http://www.mozilla.org/cvs.html

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Birthday

Yesterday, January 15, was my 17th birthday. We get a holiday - no school - for my birthday: Monday ;) They do it every year.