Countdown to the 30th
I’m not saying why, but it will be a big day. BTW, “Lost” is evil.
Azureus settings
Azureus has so many settings that its hard to figure out how to optimize your download speed. I think I’ve settled upon some settings that work pretty well (after reading through many forums with posts containing highly uninformed speculation) I have a 1.5mbps down 768 kbps up DSL line. So I set my max outgoing […]
Saavy Businessmen? I don’t see any around here..
There’s that stereotype that the Japanese are business saavy, are great at spotting good long term investments and such. While that may be true for a small number of business leaders, it certainly seems not true for the rest of the population, particularly older folk. Case and point: once a month, a representative from the […]
Holy smokes
Well it turns out that Tokyo already has digital high definition signals going everywhere through the airwaves. It also turns out that the 30 inch LCD that my grandparents recently bought can recieve and display these signals just fine. Watching the news in HD is pretty ridiculous. Foreign shows allow you to switch audio streams […]
That dude must be bored
I guess I have to return the shout out that I got in Ramesh’s blog, though not in the most flattering context. All I have to say is, you’re just in denial dude. Anyways, he must be really bored since he posted like 6 things today when he hasn’t posted in as many months.
What
So I’m sitting here checking out the Japanese cable company to see if I can transition my grandparents to a cheaper plan. They have a JCOM Net Premium plan which offers 30Mbps down (!!) and 2 Mbps up for about 45 bucks a month. Update: Not to be out done, the Yahoo broadband service offers […]
How far the Blazers have fallen
I was reading an article about Ron Artest and the how he wants to be traded, and out came mention of Bonzi Wells being on Sacramento?! Since when? and so I looked up the Blazer’s page.. they’re 6-15 so far this season. I don’t think I can remember a start that was worse, in all […]
Freakonomics
Just finished reading it yesterday. Overall a fairly interesting read, though J recently tells me that Levitt’s paper which argues for the link between abortion and the crime drop in the 1990’s has been discredited due to a bug in Levitt’s analysis code. I don’t know the details there. But overall, his knack for picking […]
iTunes TV shows
As an expirement, I purchased the latest episode of the Office from iTMS. The resolution of the video is a little less than I had hoped for, but if you sit back away from it when you watch, it still looks ok. It’s an interesting concept. Certainly easy to use, and cheap enough that I […]