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Falling behind in consumer broadband?

September 26, 2008 – 7:12 pm

I usually tend to not take too seriously a lot of the comments about how the US is so far behind in consumer internet access speeds, because they are usually comparing with countries where the suburbs are at least as densely populated as our cities.
However, it seems to me that in some ways, affordable, consumer-grade [...]

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My new Opensolaris fileserver, preparations

September 13, 2008 – 1:05 pm

In what little free time I’ve had lately, I’ve been migrating my home fileserver over to Opensolaris. This is for two reasons. First, I’m quite impressed with ZFS. Knowing what I know now about disk failure, I want scrubbing (periodic verification that disk contents are really what you think they are.) [...]

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Good warranty service from Vibram

August 13, 2008 – 11:35 am

I’d been remiss in posting further about the Vibram FiveFingers KSO which I bought about 3 months back. They had what appears to be a manufacturing issue — the strap attachment point coming un-bonded from the sole. I’d been so busy and a bit lazy, so I just left them sitting there. [...]

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Cycling, knitting

July 28, 2008 – 7:14 pm

I took Saturday off of the bike, but Sunday I went on a ride with Tien again. I rode 54.3 miles at about the same pace as last time. She rode slightly less because she was stopping to check out a loom that was for sale while I went back to the car [...]

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Ranting about fonts

July 9, 2008 – 8:00 pm

Some commonly used fonts seem to evoke a lot of dislike, at least from a small group of people with strong beliefs:

Arial: The Scourge of Arial
Times New Roman: Are You a Times New Roman or a Tahoma
Trajan: Trajan is the Movie Font (video).
And the number one hated font of all time, Comic Sans: ban comic [...]

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