December 2007 Archives
I have a Sony DAV DZ100 and use it as both my DVD player and sound system here at home. I admit it's not the highest end unit on the planet, but the price was right when I was in the market. What's a little bit sad is that I never bothered to take advantage of the system fully - I laid the speakers out, but I never hung them or laid them out properly.
Tonight I did, and I have to say it's been worth the effort. Unfortunately the wires show. There's not a whole lot I can do about that in an apartment. Already I've learned that it's worth the effort, hands down. I would certainly prefer the wires not show, but that is not an investment I am interested making in an apartment. One benefit to my system is that it has a two channel stereo mode - something I would recommend making an absolute requirement if you're in the market for a system and live in an apartment. This allows me to disable the rear speakers with the push of a button, which helps me avoid annoying neighbors at night.
That said, in a condo or house I don't think I'd hesitate to purchase a nicer system and run the wires through the walls. Television and movies sound better and at a lower volume. This is great.
Just incase someone who reads my blog does not actually read Slashdot, Movable Type is now Open Source.
(Via Slashdot.)
My inner geek is screaming, I must write about phones again.
Last time I wrote about this, I think I was using my Nokia E61i. While I was using the E61i, I was focusing on whether or not I could be satisfied with a phone of that form factor. I enjoyed how thin it was, but I was really unhappy with how wide it was. I remember speaking of the way I use my bluetooth headset for most of my lengthy calls, but that doesn't minimize the importance of my quick calls on the street or if I've forgotten my headset and am in the car. The phone needs to be comfortable for that.
I also text an awful lot in situations where one-handed use is important. Almost more important than the qwerty keyboard. I found the one-handed use of my E61i pretty uncomfortable and foreign. This is probably because I'd never used that form factor before, but I wasn't warming up to it the way I wanted to. So I've stepped back to my E70 for now and the search continues.
Some of you might wonder why I keep using the E series. Okay, probably none of you are, but I'll pretend you care and keep writing. My blog, so there! Hah!
Anyhow, for the less initiated, Nokia has a couple of classes of smart phones that I can continue - E and N. The E series phones are geared toward productivity and enterprise uses while the N series phones are geared toward multimedia. This is why you'll find a lot of phones with qwerty keyboards on the E series, but a lot of features like better cameras or music players are on the N series.
Personally, I live in the conflicted world of knowing the difference between what I want and what I need.
What I need is my ability to easily SSH around, and that often amounts to a qwerty keyboard. What I want is a device that can replace other devices, like Nokia's new N82 with its 5mp camera and xenon flash that lights up a room like any digital camera's flash and makes my inner shutterbug drool.
As of this evening, I am officially writing for the Boston Metroblog. I won't crosspost much, if anything, but just this one I'll link to one of my posts. Check out my first metroblogging post about our pal, Eric Gagne, here.
This is a test post not using MarsEdit because I did not like how the last one appeared formatted and want to check if it's MT's fault or MarsEdit's.
And I'm explaining this because... I don't know.
Yes yes, I know. I am quite the slacker. It's been too long since I've posted regularly, and I have resolved to work on that. As part of that resolution, I have upgraded MovableType (finally!) and downloaded a trial of MarsEdit. Sadly, MarsEdit does not support subcategories with MT, which I believe is an MT limitation, and does not yet have support for tags, which is a MarsEdit limitation but high on their list.
We'll see what happens!