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 […]
Entries from March 2009
The TV Arrives
March 31st, 2009 · 1 Comment
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Tags: blog