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Entries from March 2009

The TV Arrives

March 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment

Well the new TV came today.  I went to Best Buy, for once they had the best price going, and picked up a Pioneer 5020FD and an HD TiVo.  I’ve had the TiVo for a couple days now, and the netflix on demand feature came through this morning, so I am able to get some […]

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Tags: electronics · gear · technology

Visit to the Botanic Garden

March 27th, 2009 · No Comments

I really like the Chicago Botanic Garden.  Its relatively close to the house and full of interesting photo subjects.  Yesterday I had some free time so I headed down there for the evening.  The weather was perfect, sunny and warm.  Then I got there, and it wasn’t.  Sunny anyway.  About twenty minutes after I showed […]

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Tags: photography

Pioneer KURO 50″ 5020FD

March 27th, 2009 · No Comments

I’m TV shopping.  I live in SD land, with my SD TiVo, my SDTV, and my SD cable.  We don’t even have digital.  I’ve been drooling over a new TV for I don’t know, 10 years.  Knowing what I know about tech, and knowing what these things cost, I’ve been fence sitting.  HD has been […]

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Tags: electronics · gear · technology

Java 1.2.2

March 27th, 2009 · No Comments

I am working on updating an old batch job that is written in Java at work.  It was written in such a way as to make me think that it was written by a COBOL programmer.  The code makes my stomach turn, with its obvious disregard for modern Java best practices.  I don’t know why […]

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Tags: java · technology · wtf

New Banner

March 27th, 2009 · No Comments

I got around to updating the banner on the site.  It is some of the photos I have taken over the past year or so.  If you read the site through an rss reader, click through to check it out.

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Tags: blog