Monthly Archives: August 2004

Hauppage DVR-250 for $90 After Rebate

Jumpin’ Frogs!!  That’s a good deal.  And I was *JUST* about to get another one. J  Circuit City has the Hauppage WinTV Personal Video Recorder 250 add-in card for $150, which isn’t that hot, but with two mail-in rebates it … Continue reading

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Sweet, sweet RAM

Yep, I have to agree.  I added a Gig to my Dell and I *love* it!!!!  I’m now sporting 1 gigabyte of memory in my Thinkpad. It was a lot cheaper than I expected; the last time I was shopping … Continue reading

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Can’t sleep again

Argh.  But at least there is a football game on. J   One of the advantages of having BeyondTV is that I can catch up on all the Latenight and Primetime in the AM stuff. J If the game gets … Continue reading

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Command & Conquer laser weapons becoming reality

“speed-of-light”?  What does that mean?  The US Army’s Tactical High Energy Laser successfully shot down a series of mortar attacks using speed-of-light bursts to destroy the incoming targets. [Ars Technica]

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New holographic discs look like a DVD but hold a terabyte

Cool!!  This looks awesome!  Optware Corp., the developer of Collinear Holographic* Data Storage System, announced today that it had achieved successfully world’s first recording and play back of digital movies on a holographic recording disc with a reflective layer using … Continue reading

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New holographic discs look like a DVD but hold a terabyte

Cool!!  This looks awesome!  Optware Corp., the developer of Collinear Holographic* Data Storage System, announced today that it had achieved successfully world’s first recording and play back of digital movies on a holographic recording disc with a reflective layer using … Continue reading

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Aluminum Beer Bottles

Hey this is cool.  I worked as a contractor for Alcoa for almost a year installing a new enterprise wide exchange server network.  Kind of neat!  Alcoa has teamed up with Pittsburgh Brewing Company to produce and package Iron City … Continue reading

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Motorola MPx 220 Reviewed

This is an awesome review of the new phone.  Be warned though.  It will make you want one bad.  Howard Forums’ infamous Mark Morrow is at it again, this time dumping an insiders look at the Motorola MPx 220, the … Continue reading

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Philips and Interbrew’s PerfectDraft

OK, forget the pocketpc phone.  I want one of *these* for my birthday!!!  Is this why we fought WWII? So the Amsterdammers can have superior home beer technology? Clearly, the introduction for Interbrew and Philips’ new “PerfectDraft” system is cause … Continue reading

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pt Picks Up An iPAQ 6315

Man I want one of these SOOOOO bad.  Doesn’t someone want to get me one for my birthday?  It’s tomorrow but I won’t mind if it doesn’t get here till Fri. J  Looks like most people have had success getting … Continue reading

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