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A Router Saga

A few weeks ago, my trusty Motorola WR850G router started acting really goofy. It ran flawlessly for over three years at the condo, enduring power spikes and whatnot, and I figured between the move here to the house and a few of the storms we’ve had there might have been too much for it to …

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Check Out My Fahnestocks

When I was a kid, my dad brought home a Radio Shack Crystal Radio kit for me to assemble. It was a fairly simple little kit– there was no soldering necessary because everything was held together by these little spring clip thingies. Over the years, I built a bunch of other little electronic kits– never …

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Why a Mac

The other night, one of my daughter’s friends asked me why I have an Apple sticker on my car. I gave my usual response, which is “because I use Apple computers and they’re cool,” but for some reason I felt the need to temper that response because of the way Mac people are perceived these …

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Zune: A Theory

It seems everyone is on the bandwagon to rag about Microsoft’s new Zune player. (For those of you who haven’t heard of it: (a) I’m not too surprised; and (b) think “iPod competitor.”) I’ve been thinking about this and I’ve come up with a theory. Microsoft is not out to succeed in the space that …

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