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Entries from January 2006

Yet Another Car Shopping Experience

January 16th, 2006 · No Comment

Saturday was an interesting day. We went to pick up my Honda Civic Hybrid from Hardin Honda Service and ended up test driving the Pilot and Odyssey. We were up front with those guys that we weren’t going to buy today, but after 2 hours of driving around and talking, we sat down and talked [...]

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Posted in Driving · Stuff

Not Yet Junk

January 13th, 2006 · No Comment

Hmm, why do I insist on using an old Celeron 300Mhz PC with 4 5400 rpm (no cache) old scsi hard disks spanned? On top of that, I tried using this system to burn files on DVD-R and now Nero is complaining about “Not enough power to burn at 4x (2x or 1x)”??
Well, I’m a [...]

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Unique San Diego

January 12th, 2006 · 1 Comment

I was just reminded of this highway sign that’s unique to San Diego, the county where I used to live for 4 years. I commute up and down I-5 from Del Mar to Irvine every morning, and I always see this sign. For a while I wasn’t sure what it meant but it dawned [...]

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Posted in Driving · World

Need More HDD Space!

January 11th, 2006 · No Comment

I just don’t realize how long it takes to backup gigs and gigs of data off an 120mb drive. I guess having an dvd-burner that only burns at 8x has a lot to do with it. It’s amazing that CDs are burned at 32x now and it was quick.. Cleaning up hard drives is definitely [...]

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Posted in Stuff · This Blog

Welcome To My Very Own Blog Space! - 2006-01-10 11:25

January 10th, 2006 · 3 Comments

I thought I might try to compete with Yahoo 360 and come up with my own blog installation. This program seems to work great so let’s see if either of these 4 things last:

My commitment to enter new blog entries
This old AMD box to die on me
This maxtor harddrive to die on me
Safe and stable [...]

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