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An avid follower of my blog (the only follower of my blog ?) reminded me the other day that I never completed my series on putting my PC together. I think the fact is that I've been too busy playing with it to write up my experience in assembling it!...
Ever since I got my DSLR and a couple of 4 gig CF cards a few months back, I've been shooting away to glory each weekend and contending with 100s of RAW images. My poor 'kitchen laptop' with a 40 gig hard drive and an outdated processor couldn't take...
One thing I never understood about the way mobile operators work is why texting (aka SMS ) is so freaking expensive. I figure its something like what the drug dealer 'Nick' in New York Magazine's recent feature on profit making said about maximizing profit...
It's probably a bit too late for a April fool's prank, but Paul Graham's essay ' Microsoft is Dead ' has caused a bit of buzz over the weekend. Like most other pieces of anti-Microsoft blabber, it was on Slashdot earlier today . I...
Kiss 106.1, the radio station we usually listen on our way to work everyday recently ran a contest for the best commercial that user's could come up with. Now, I had heard of contests for the best slogan or the best punch-line before, but this is the...
I totally hate doing this… but I guess this is the way it's meant to be :-) I'm moving my blog from its current home on MSN (nee Windows Live) Spaces to its new home on my own server at blog.umeshunni.com . It took a bit of work over the past couple of...
Fosfor gadgets has a short but interesting article that compares gadgets from the '70s & '80s to today's versions. While they talk about mobile phones, stereos and storage devices, they've missed out on comparing yesterday's computers...
I spent a Sunday a couple of weeks back rewiring a couple of rooms at home with Cat 5 cabling. Mostly just moving the cables from one outlet to another. Some things I learned… 1. Making ethernet patch cables is easy: Get bulk cable and use the...
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