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by ray on 01. Jan, 2010 in Video

This is one messed up video. “The lyrics are pure gibberish, intended to sound like American English as heard by a non English-speaker.”

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The Short but Powerful Guide to Finding Your Passion

by ray on 18. Nov, 2009 in Blog

We’ve been thinking “big picture” a lot lately at Needmore, and at home. Maybe having a kid does that to you? At any rate, I found this to be a quick and inspiring article. The Short but Powerful Guide to Finding Your Passion.

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On eBook Readers

by ray on 05. Nov, 2009 in Blog

I have a huge problem with digital rights management. What that is, basically, is when you take a file format, an MP3 file containing music for example, and add a wrapper around it to ensure that only certain people can listen to it, perhaps under a particular set of circumstances. This is difficult to swallow, [...]

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System 7

by ray on 26. Oct, 2009 in Blog

I love user interfaces, and I particularly loved the old Mac OS interface. What we would call “classic” nowadays. It looks old-fashioned now, but it was so much more attractive than Windows back then! GUIdebook > Screenshots > System 7.0. Sadly, after a few more years, they were putting out desktops like this, which had [...]

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DirecTV Customer Service

by ray on 08. Oct, 2009 in Blog

This is what I write to DirecTV. Bear in mind that the comment form only allows 1000 characters. I’ll start at the top. Why do you need to ask for a bunch of my information for me to fill out this form? I’m ALREADY LOGGED IN. Why is my “Title” mandatory?????? Why can I only [...]

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Mac Pro For Sale

by ray on 24. Sep, 2009 in Blog

We’re selling an Intel-based Mac Pro with plenty of upgrades. Here are some details, and there are more complete specs online elsewhere. Mac Pro (Fall, 2006) MacPro1,1 Model A1186 Order MA356LL/A Serial YM6329PZUQ2 No AppleCare. General Two Dual 2.66 GHz Intel Xeon 5100 64 bit Processors System Bus: two 1.33 GHz 16x SuperDrive Apple Keyboard [...]

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MacBook Pro For Sale

by ray on 24. Sep, 2009 in Blog

We are selling at 15 inch MacBook Pro. Still has AppleCare and has been upgraded to 4GB of memory. The complete specs are online. Some details: Introduced June 2007 MacBookPro3,1 Model A1226 Order MA896LL (2.4GHz) Serial W87263NFX92 Covered by AppleCare until July 07, 2010! Processor Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4GHz, 64 bit 4MB on-chip shared [...]

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Missing the Album

by ray on 29. Aug, 2009 in Blog

When I was younger, we listened to albums. I don’t mean this as a “back in my day” kind of rant, so please bear with me. And I myself am as guilty as anyone—too seldom do I myself have the patience to listen through a whole album these days. And still, I do miss it. [...]

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Cable

by ray on 28. Aug, 2009 in Blog

So we just got DirecTV installed today. And though we tried to watch for 24 hours straight, here it is, not even midnight, with me in bed. I must be getting old. I’m almost surprised at how much fun it is. It’s a satellite receiver, which they install on the roof, and then you get [...]

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Gratitude

by ray on 21. Aug, 2009 in Blog

“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.”

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