Archive for the ‘funny’ Category

One of the things I like most about Google’s Chrome web browser is how often it is updated. But now that Chrome has rocketed through eleven versions in two and a half years, the thrill of seeing that version number increment has largely worn off. It seems they’ve picked off all the low hanging fruit [...]

The last sound card I purchased was in 2006, and that’s only because I’m (occasionally) a bleeding edge PC gamer. The very same card was still in my current PC until a few days ago. It’s perhaps too generous to describe PC sound hardware as stagnant; it’s borderline irrelevant. The default, built-in sound chips on [...]

As an early advocate of solid state hard drives … The State of Solid State Hard Drives (October 2009) Revisiting Solid State Hard Drives (October 2010) … I feel ethically and morally obligated to let you in on a dirty little secret I’ve discovered in the last two years of full time SSD ownership. Solid [...]

Late last year, the Netflix Tech Blog wrote about five lessons they learned moving to Amazon Web Services. AWS is, of course, the preeminent provider of so-called “cloud computing”, so this can essentially be read as key advice for any website considering a move to the cloud. And it’s great advice, too. Here’s the one [...]

It’s been almost three years since I built my home theater PC. I adore that little machine; it drives all of our family entertainment and serves as a general purpose home media server and streaming box. As I get older, I find that I’m no longer interested in having a home full of PCs whirring [...]


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