Monthly Archives: September 2004

Fort Pickens drying up

It looks like the water is starting to go down a bit. And folks can get between Pace and Pensacola again.

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Component-style XM Tuner

This looks cool.  For the Media Center PC XM will be having streaming music later this year so that would do the trick.      So we love our XM, we have one in the car as well as the … Continue reading

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Blackout “D” shuts out Nashville Mustangs

The Daly City Renegades are undefeated!!!! http://www.dalycityrenegades.com/ Site has sound so mute your speakers if you check it out at work. My brother is number 97, second from the left and second row from botom. To quote the team website: … Continue reading

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Washing Machine Reads Smart Tags on Clothing, Sends Emails

Hmmm.  This could allow us to find the rare and nigh un-catchable sock eater!!  A new washing machine developed by the Dai Nippon Printing Company can read special smart tags on clothing and instruct the user the best method with … Continue reading

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TiVo Desktop 1.1 out

This is cool.  To bad it’s for Series 2 only. L  I ran across a news item on DesignTechnica annoucing the TiVo 1.1 Desktop software for the PC, but the TiVo.com download site says the update came out last month. … Continue reading

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Ivan Update

Ivan Update Well, lots of news to talk about. John “Noggin” Butler and family have power again. John said that the power was from a nearby plant that generates its own power. There were crews going down Bell Lane fixing … Continue reading

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Pensacola News Journal

The local Pensacola Newspaper has up-to-date information about the local area. I was not able to grasp the devistation until I came here. Pensacola is trashed…. http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com

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Family doing ok

Well, so far I have heard from everyone except Taryn, Jeane and my Grandma Mo’. Everyone is going ok for the most part. Noggin’s new house had a close call with a tornado but only lost part of the fence … Continue reading

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Increase iPod battery by 70%

Hey you iPod fans. This might be worth checking out.  It was nice of Apple to up the battery life on the new iPod to 12 hours from the sorta dismal 8 hours of juice the earlier ones got, but … Continue reading

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Hitachi bringing out new 100GB Travelstar laptop drives

Oh baby!  This would rock!  Just like clockwork Hitachi Global Storage Technologies says they’ll have a new 100GB version of their 2.5-inch Travelstar laptop drive out sometime before the end of the year. Seagate, Toshiba, and Fujitsu have also been … Continue reading

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