Meglet Rambles On

This is why I went 4-wheeling (by accident!) in foot deep snow:

And this is why I have a sunroof, so I don’t have to open the car door and scare him away:

And this is why I spent almost $2000 on a camera lens:

The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog in pursuit of a white rabbit. The lazy dog opens one eye in a baleful glare, but soon goes back to sleep knowing that his dinner will be provided by the humans who care for him. Meanwhile, the white rabbit flees frantically from the fox, darting [...]

As previously mentioned, I recently acquired a Samsung NC-10 mini laptop. In the past 5 days, I have set it up to do the following:

Surf the internet (duh)
Play music with iTunes (1500+ songs)
Play videos in iTunes (movies I own, and TV shows I’ve purchased from iTunes)
Play TV shows I’ve converted from DVD [...]

“Cute and pretty” best sums up this movie. It is the story of Mr. Magorium and his magical toystore, and the days after he decides to depart and leave the store to Mahoney, the store manager. With Dustin Hoffman as Mr. Magorium and Natalie Portman as Mahoney, as well as Jason Bateman as “Mutant” aka [...]

I blame this on the boss. He went to Costco the other night, and came into the office the next day with an HP Mini 1000 “NetBook” which is basically a really tiny laptop. Now, I’ve been thinking about getting a similar one for a while, just contemplating that it would be a nice thing [...]

Change is good. Change and a couple bucks will buy you a cup of “coffee” at Starbucks. But after the last few years, I think it’s time for change.
Even more than change, I think hope is good. And right now, I think the biggest thing to come out of todays inaguration is hope. I’m [...]

Back when DVDs first starting becoming popular, everybody was all “They’re better than VHS tapes cause they’ll last forever!”
Turns out, that’s not true. I’ve gotten far enough in my project to store all my DVDs on my media server that I’m getting to some of the older movies and TV shows on DVD now. [...]

One of my favorite features on my Macs is the built-in bluetooth. In theory, this means that you can find a bluetooth mouse or keyboard, and connect it wirelessly to the computer without losing a USB port to the usual wireless receiver. In practice, there are very few good bluetooth mice or keyboards available, and [...]

How to install Vista and set it up to record and play HDTV and Blu-ray movies:
Step 1: Make sure there are no small children around. Lots of swearing will be involved.
Step 2: Insert the Vista DVD in the DVD-Rom drive of your computer, and reboot. Note: you need a real DVD-Rom drive, not a Blu-ray [...]

Breathing. Dead people on TV, anyway. Sitting on the couch the other night, enjoying an episode of CSI:NY on the new TV, and I noticed something about the “dead” person in scene: I could see them breathing! This is probably because of how freaking huge the new TV is, I get much better detail on [...]