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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Friday, February 23, 2007

Sighted on University Ave:

A miniature horse!

Actually, upon review, you can't actually see it in this low-res phonecam picture.  It's a very very large dog.

|| Andrew, 9:11 AM || || link ||

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Fwd: เป็นคนใหม่ที่ใครๆต้องตะลึง

What the heck language is this?

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From: "ple k" <onusa11@hotmail.com>
To:
Subject: เป็นคนใหม่ที่ใครๆต้องตะลึง
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 21:44:01 -0800

เป็นคนใหม่ ที่ใครๆต้องตะลึง ลด น้ำหนัก 5- 15 kg. ใน 3 เดือน สวยใสภายใน 4
สัปดาห์

ลดน้ำหนักกระชับสัดส่วน ต้นแขน ต้นขา หน้า ท้อง และสะโพก ส่วนเกิน 5-40 ก.ก.
.ใน 90
วันไม่ใช้ยา ด้วยชีวสมุนไพร

ปลอดภัยควบคุม โดย อย. รับรอง แล้วกว่า 60 ประเทศ

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|| Andrew, 9:50 PM || || link ||

Saturday, February 10, 2007

Jon Miller to broadcast Giants through 2012

The Mercury News' Andrew Baggarly and The Chronicle's Henry Schulman both report that Giants lead broadcaster Jon Miller has extended his contract through 2012.
Miller to broadcast Giants through 2012:
Giants announcer Jon Miller knows he will be nervous as Barry Bonds approaches Hank Aaron's all-time home run record this summer.

``There's a lot of pressure, when history's being made, not to screw it up,'' Miller said with a laugh.

The Giants have total faith in their lead play-by-play announcer and signature voice. They demonstrated that Friday, announcing a six-year extension that will keep Miller with the club through the 2012 season.


6-year extension for Giants' Miller:
Good thing for Jon Miller's fans in San Francisco that his contract did not come due in July, when the rigors of his dual life as the Giants' radio play-by-play man and the voice of ESPN's "Sunday Night Baseball" take their harshest toll. If so, Miller might not have signed the six-year extension, through 2012, the Giants announced Friday.

"At some point, taking your shoes off and getting patted down in the security gate -- 'Is that a bottle? Is that liquid in there? It's got to go' -- it takes a toll," Miller said, confessing that in July, when he began talking about a new deal with the Giants, he asked himself, "What am I doing? Do I really need this?"

The answer was a resounding yes. With a couple of months of rest after the season, Miller said he realized how much he loves his jobs with the Giants and ESPN and decided to move on a deal that will keep him in the booth at China Basin for his 11th through 16th seasons, past his 60th birthday.
I couldn't be happier. The combination of Miller with Kuiper and Krukow (with Dave Fleming) has got to be one of the best in baseball. For example: One morning last summer, the Giants were on the road somewhere where it rains heavily in the summer and the game was delayed for an hour. Rather than switching back to the studio, Miller and Kuiper & Krukow stayed on the air and just talked baseball. Miller recounted stories of players and broadcasters he'd known and his descriptive skills, usually employed to bring a distant game to life over the radio, were perfectly used.

Now about Bonds and Benitez...
|| Andrew, 1:24 PM || || link ||

Friday, February 09, 2007

Home Media Servers 101

Ars Technica's Brian Won published this new addition to their lauded system guides a few weeks ago (January 31) but I've been keeping the tab open in Opera to remind myself to read it again and link it here.

Ars System Guide: Home Media Server
"What's a home media server? A central place to put all that data you have, from e-mail to music to movies. With multiple PCs becoming commonplace in the home, the need to push data through every room in the house via Ethernet or WiFi combined with the proliferation of digital-only content mean the storage demands of home users are rising quickly.

Fortunately, hard drives have been getting cheaper as well, to the point where they are treated as commodity items by OEMs and even smaller system builders. The major upside of this is that storing 250GB of data or more can be done for well under $100, and 500GB for $140. Compared to prices 10 or 15 years ago of $1 per megabyte, and the possibility of a home media server with a terabyte or three of storage is sure to bring a silly grin to many a face. A cheap home PC can store a few hundred gigabytes of data very cheaply, while a low-cost home media server can rack together a few hard drives to act as a central location for data storage, distributing everything over the home network.
A well-written guide to building your own home media server for not a lot of money. It's on my list of things to do this year.
|| Andrew, 11:33 AM || || link ||

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