Archive for June, 2009
technology adoption
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This is a fascinating little segment about consumer technology adoption that compares quality and cost. The subject at hand is Compact Fluorescent Lighting, but his thinking is applicable to a lot of consumer technology adoption challenges.
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sign of the times
I thought this was curious. At Corte Madera, an upscale mall in Marin, one of the storefronts was empty and a cash-for-gold store was happily taking people’s jewelry.
I overheard a few people who were pleasantly surprised how much they got for their unwanted jewelry.
I’m fully expecting gold to go through a spectacular bull market bubble [...]
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traffic barrel monster
The city should be thinking of reasons to hire this guy, not arrest him.
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schwarzenegger
I saw this quote in an Reuters article about California’s financial disaster:
Schwarzenegger also urged Democrats to ignore lobbying by their union allies against sharply lower spending levels to help balance the state’s books.
“Do they want to protect the workers that provide the services, or do they want to protect the people that get those services? [...]
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lastpass
I found this amazing utility called lastpass. It is a browser-based password management utility that syncs across all your computers.
I’ve tried password managers in the past and have never been particularly enamored of them. Either they didn’t work or seemed like giant security holes.
This one is different. The architecture is solid and it works really, [...]
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A quick follow-up to my previous post about buying a macbook pro primarily to run windows. I’m happy to say that after a week of intense frustration at repeated crashes, I now have an extremely stable system. Installation issues aside, this is unquestionably the best Windows laptop I’ve ever used:
The apple keyboard is great, even [...]
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street view is useful!
I think Google Street View is interesting, but I’ve never really found much practical use for it. Not anymore.
I have a sewer pipe that has backed up…again. It needs to be dug out and replaced. Instead of paying a plumber a pile of money to do the digging, I’m planning to hire a day laborer. [...]
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oversight, what oversight?
$30k lent to financial institutions for every man, woman and child in the United States, and we have this.
Many careers ought to be terminated over this madness. We might as well start with this woman.
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macbook pro + vista 64
My laptop was growing long in the tooth, so I decided to get a new one.
I wanted a 17″ display and a bright LED backlight that won’t grow dim over time. That narrows the field pretty quickly. I’ve had an imac running Windows Vista for almost a year with no problems at all, so I [...]
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Tags: bootcamp, crash, freeze, macbook pro 17 unibody, rivatuner, vista 64-bit
