Bit Stirrer

I just saw this totally sweet-looking HTPC on this blog post at a site call PC Thoughts... the thing that makes this HTPC look really sweet to me, is that it is (or at least aims to be) totally passive... that's 100% no fans, or any other moving parts (except for a DVD drive I 'spose). And it's not just one of those really low-power Atom / Crusoe / mobile processors either - its a full-blown dual-core Athlon 64!! :)

don't look here... I'm just testing trackbacks! ;)

PC Thoughts

In the past two days I've rebuilt one of my work servers as a Debian box (it was previously running Fedora Core)... and I'm just reminded yet again, that Debian is my favorite Linux distro - it thinks like me - it has a purist approach to all things, and is oh so much faster at most admin tasks than Fedora.

I've lost count of the times this has happened to me. I'm sure there are plenty of other blog posts and news articles that vent about this particular topic - but I just have to let off a little Steam...

Sure, I own a dog, you own a dog... that doesn't make me your friend, so let me go running without messing with the greetings and dog sniffing, please!!!

I mean seriously, since when was there an unwritten social law that dog owners are supposed to stop and chat as they pass by in the street?!?!

I happen to like Google Chrome... quite a lot!!  In fact browsers that are not multi-threaded (ie all other browsers) crap me off from a software engineering standpoint!! (Mutlithreading is not just about taking advantage of multiple CPUs / cores, but more importantly, about UI / tab functionality not hanging on Windows' moronaic network (especially DNS) code!!!).

Man!! When is Hollywood gunna get this right?! I just watched yet another movie in which someone gets shot, and was clearly wearing a bullet-proof vest... but just so that the audience is sure, the shootee promptly removed the vest for all to see!!  I mean, c'mon!! Everyone knows that only a complete idiot would remove the bullet-proof vest before the final resolution!!  Seriously!?  How dumb does Hollywood think we are?!

This week Western Digital launched their new WD TV HD Media Player - and I was excited to see it.  It look, at first, to be a brilliant device - well worthy of replacing my now-decrepit TViX.  However, upon closer investigation, it seems that the WD TV is seriously lacking in two ways:

I like coffee... a lot! And last weekend I had the pleasure of drinking one of the best coffee's I've had in a shopping center.  It was a regular skinny latte from Café Ives in Chadstone Shopping Center.

Café Ives is shop 248, located on the ground floor - H5 on the Chadstone map.  (And no, I'm not affiliated with them in any way, I just like to report good (and bad) coffee when I come accross it).