After 3.5 years of using TiVo, I’ve finally decided to crack open the case and increase the recording capacity. I purchased my Philips 14hr HDR112 TiVo (the first model ever manufactured) from Fry’s Electronics in Sunnyvale on October 22nd, 1999. Today, Ariella and I schlepped out to Fry’s in Woodland Hills to purchase a Maxtor […]
Today is Yahoo! Mail Dump the Junk Day in the United Kingdom. If you’ve got a friend or colleague who bombards you with joke emails and “wacky” attachments, nominate them for the The Dump the Junk Award. Apparently, you’ve gotta be a Brit to enter the contest.
JR Conlin: “Caffeine has become the new nicotine.” Over the past 10 years I’ve kicked my caffeine habit twice but fell off the wagon both times. A few years ago we got an espresso maker as a wedding present, and I’ve been drinking a shot or two every morning. It turns out that a shot […]
After a few weeks of pleading with my cell phone carrier, they have finally resolved a billing error. This is a good thing for both of us. Good for me, because I generally like my calling plan and would hate to give it up, and good for them, because they will continue to get my […]
Apparently I haven’t been mentioning my brother-in-law enough in my blog. No, he’s not a janitor, but this is the goofiest picture I could find of him.
Ask Yahoo!, a daily column that features Q&A with Yahoo!’s expert team of Surfers, is officially syndicating its content via RSS. As reported here back in April, RSS support for Ask Yahoo! had previously been available as a Beta release only. This week, Ask Yahoo! marks five wonderful, question-filled years. To celebrate this momentous occasion, […]
John Doe. Joe Schmoe. Ploni ben Ploni. When the Gemara needs a placeholder name but doesn’t want to use a real one, apparently it uses the name פלוני (transliterated here as Ploni). Ploni can be used both as a person’s name as well as a name of a place. In mock contracts, sometimes the formula […]
This photo of Ariella and her bro in San Francisco is from a week ago. I finally transferred a batch of images from my digital camera today.
Disney to Begin Renting ‘Self-Destructing’ DVDs (Yahoo! News) Hey, didn’t we already do this about 5 years ago? This time, the underlying technology is something called Flexplay.
I like the Unix DBM file format (a.k.a BerkeleyDB). I use it for static data (like the zip code-to-latitude/longitude database for the Hebcal Interactive Jewish Calendar) and for dynamic data (such as the subscriber database for the Mountain View High School Alumni Internet Directory). BerkeleyDB is also great because it has many language interfaces. I […]