Sep
21
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Thursday, 21 September 2006 |
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 So far, I have been using an iRiver iFP 790 at the gym, and it has worked pretty ok for me. Not spectacularly well, not spectacularly poorly. Its 256MB are definitely getting to be a little small; after a year or so, it's definitely acting up: the headphone plug is noisy and doesn't grip the jacks any more; the buttons on top (not the best placement anyway) are starting to become insensitive; and the luster on the shiny red exterior is wearing off.
Oddly enough, though, it was the software that ended up costing the little device its place as MFUG (most frequently used gadget) in my household: I had devised this cool way of changing music on it, by symlinking tracks from the rip collection into a special folder, and then rsync-ing that folder to the device. To do that, of course, I needed to be able to rsync, which means I had to be able to mount the iFP.
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May
03
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Tuesday, 03 May 2005 |
I am one of those guys that writes reports about trips he's made, and 'spices' them up with relevant pictures taken on the road. I like having the prose interrupted by my images, because it's easier on the eye, because you have a better chance of figuring out if you are interested in a particular ride or hike if you see the surroundings, and just because I am so proud of my pictures.
In parallel, I started looking at all the different forms of gallery add-ons for Mambo. I looked at all the non-integrated ones, looked at all the integrated ones, and ended up liking zOOm the best. I found it had a few bugs, a few idiosyncrasies, but all in all it worked the best for me.
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Nov
17
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Friday, 17 November 2006 |
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Well, who would have known? After five years, I finally got myself a new bike again - a Honda CBR 600 RR. It's a great bike, I always loved looking at it, and the only reason I had to do without a bike for so long was that I didn't have a garage to put it in. Now I have it (have had it for a year), and it's time to live dangerously again.
The bike is from craigslist, the owner a nice kid that was terribly concerned about my wrecking it when I got there for a test ride. I didn't feel very confident, but his fretting made me downright anxious.
Of course, the first thing that happens is that I kill the engine. Hoa (that's the guy's name) immediately had me sign a "you down it, you buy it waiver", and repeated probably twenty times that if I felt uncomfortable, I should just come back later.
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