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Archive for 2006

New Year’s Resolution Time

Sunday, December 31st, 2006

It’s almost that time of year. Since my birthday follows New Year’s Day I tend to make the start then. But I begin the work of thinking about goals on the first, tomorrow. What are the candidates this year:

Losing weight, as always. This year I think the specific goal needs to be somewhere in the […]

eMusic?

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

MP3 music downloads at eMusic
I like the idea of DRM-free music a lot. I truly don’t mind paying for music; I just want to be able to move it to new PCs or listen to it in the car or whatever. eMusic offers this, I signed up for an account this morning. I don’t like […]

Tips on What To Do With a Broken iPod - SeekingAlpha

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

Tips on What To Do With a Broken iPod - SeekingAlpha
Just bookmarking this for later since my original Nano died. I need to send it in and get it repaired, I wouldn’t mind an extra device just to leave in the car.

My very own windmill

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

Skystream 3.7
How cool would it be to have your very own windmill? I often think about attaching my bike trainer to a generator of some sort but that simply won’t power a whole lot. But a windmill? That would be completely cool. Of course our house doesn’t get all that much wind but it might […]

SAS Christmas Calendar 2006 Day 22: Stockholm

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

SAS Christmas Calendar 2006
If the ABBA museum was open I’d consider it:-)

cityrag: 50 Greatest Cartoons

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

cityrag: 50 Greatest Cartoons
Very nifty set of cartoons.

the show with zefrank

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

the show with zefrank
If you haven’t run across Ze Frank yet, here is a chance to do so. Often the show is just sort of kind of snickering a little over coffee funny. And then bam, you snort the whole cup onto the monitor.
This Christmas one caught me, I don’t know why, perhaps because we […]

Scandinavian Airlines Day 21: Tallin

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

Scandinavian Airlines
Why you ask does SAS insist on sending me to the Baltics? I would have had trouble recalling where Tallin is (in fact I still have a 50/50 shot at Estonia or Lithuania here) but Riga came up earlier this month. I don’t want to go anywhere near there at the moment. I also […]

SAS Christmas Calendar 2006 Day 20: Gdansk

Wednesday, December 20th, 2006

SAS Christmas Calendar 2006
Not quite sure where Gdansk is. I would look this up and find interesting facts but due to the storm last week we are still without a decent internet connection. I have my mobile phone hooked up to my laptop and it gets, in theory, a 230.4 kbps connection. Of course it […]

Scandinavian Airlines Day 16, whoa, what Day 15?

Saturday, December 16th, 2006

Scandinavian Airlines
Okay Day 16 is London. Big deal.
But hey, what about Day 15? Well we lost power and then spent the day helping neighbors clear trees from their homes. As of this writing we still don’t have power at the house.  So we couldn’t check on Day 15…. and what was Day 15…. Milano! Oh […]