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 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).