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Reviews, speculation, and other idle thoughts on hardware, software, firmware…

wishlist (part…?)

by Rob Friesel

Time for another one of the infamous ‘wishlist, a.k.a. “why don’t you go and develop it yourself, lamer?” posts… One bookmark list to link them all, one list to bind them. If you do any kind of web dev (PC or Mac, don’t matter…) then chances are you have not one but several damn browsers […]

beat my head…

by Rob Friesel

CURRENTLY AGGRAVATING: Blogger and FuitadNet, not playing nice. What I don’t get: My Blogger account can connect to the FuitadNet server just fine and dump my posts etc. up there w/ no difficulty. Clean and easy every time (and over SFTP no less). However, for whatever reason, A’s account refuses to connect over FTP or […]

save for later.

by Rob Friesel

Via /.: DrunkenBlog posts Convergence Kills – an essay to do w/ the cell as a convergence point that is certain to kill other mobile devices. Intriguing at first glance. I’d love to have counter-points but a thorough read will need to wait for a time when I’m not on-call… When the smoke has settled […]

my fortune awaits.

by Rob Friesel

In researching the iTrip recently , I thought: Hmm… I bet there’s a user forum out there where people have posted which frequencies they find to be the best in their area! But apparently, no one else has had this bright idea. All my Googling seems to turn up is commentary from people that have […]

iPlod…

by Rob Friesel

Something about 1,650 Duke freshmen with iPods frightens me. As if these little bastards weren’t privileged enough… Or was I thinking of Wake Forest…? At least they’ll have the trendiest Spanish student exercises in the country.