I hate outlook so much

Just when I finally thought I tamed it.. it comes back to bite me with the stupid 32K rule limit. The number of client-side rules is for some reason limited by server storage space. Umm, ok. Anyways.. I have my new plan now: I will run a vm that mounts my nfs home directory, and […]

“Alternative” Radio Stations

So Live 105.3 stopped airing Howard Stern recently, and switched to the “Morning Music Co-op.” The station’s slogan is that they “fight to keep alternative music alive.” I guess that’s fine, but after you listen to this station for a few days, you realize that’s it’s not different than the others. It plays the same […]

A bit better

For some reason ubuntu had a really old version of wanderlust (2.10 series, which is more than two years old). I guess no one updated the debian repository until very recently, so when ubuntu 5.10 came out, it was already too late to get included. Thankfully, the ubuntu universe pool has a .deb for the […]

Super hack-tastic

Whatever device I end up buying, it’d be nice if I could use Japanese on it. It’s not a hard requirement, but it would sure make things more interesting. Unfortunately, getting Japanese to work on an American or European device involves quite a bit of work, but there are people who manage to get it […]

UE Super.fi 5Pro update

I’ve had a few more days to listen to these, and today I tried driving them with my Total Bithead headphone amp. They sound even better on these, much more full base and clarity, but they also make, as Ramesh noted, the backround hiss of the bithead really obvious. The hiss on the Bithead is […]

Gallery 2

I, like others, manage a gallery for other people I know — mainly, my family members. I personally use smugmug, but since I can’t really effectively share my smugmug account, I still use gallery for everyone else’s pictures (plus dreamhost just upgraded us to 20G, so there’s plenty of room). The new embedded Java-based upload […]

Ultimate Ears Super.fi 5Pro review

Just got these today as well. I’ve only listened to them for maybe half an hour, but they sound very nice. I’ve never owned in-ear type earphones before, so I’m rather surprised by how much better it can sound. I’m sure it has to do with the quality of the earphones themselves too, but the […]

Macally iceKey 10 second review

I just got my iceKey delivered to me and I’ve been typing on it for about 2 minutes. First impressions.. it feels pretty nice. The keys are nice and light, and it feels much less straining though I feel like I’m still pressing too hard. Packaging: I’ve come to expect high quality packaging from buying […]