Monthly Archives: October 2005

Interesting Comparison

Apple products are priced a little higher than others. This is not news. Check out this benchmark comparision. http://ladd.dyndns.org/xbench/merge.xhtml?doc1=129700&doc2=135353 The interesting thing here is this: that Athlon can be picked up with a motherboard at Fry’s for like $400. Wow. … Continue reading

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New White LED

Neat stuff! Very efficient: Link

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Apple has nailed the laptop market

At this point in time, if anyone is looking for a laptop… I would only recommend an Apple. Why? Over the years, the PC guys have just gotten worse and added more cruft on the PC side in order to … Continue reading

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40 Year Old Virgin

Great comedy and a great group of actors. They nailed so many scenes in this movie, its not funny (yeah, yeah, a pun ) When it gets to video rental, go check it out. Highly recommended!

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106.9 FM

When I’m in my car, I listen to FM radio. The CD changer in the trunk broke a long time ago and I don’t own an iPod. Over the last few days, I’ve been listening to 106.9 FM. I don’t … Continue reading

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Watching the kids this weekend…

Should be fun. We have several colds/viruses running through the Nelson compound right now. If the chaos settles down, we may get to go on some hikes…

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GIMP Shop – Open Source Photoshop

Nice! There is a picture of Wilber. Essentially, these guys have taken the GIMP – the Gnu Image Manipulation Program, which was already really powerful, and made it even more Photoshop like. It has a simple windows installer as well. … Continue reading

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More on Which Camera to Get

First, an apology to Terry, he is my friend and he has a Nikon D70. It’s a great camera and it was voted as best camera of 2004 by Popular Photography. Ok, so on to the research… If I were … Continue reading

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