trisweb.com

Trisweb.com, zenphoto.org, and other of my services are going down for the time being. There’s been an emergency with the people hosting me on their private server and they have to get rid of it, so I’m currently frantically backing up everything.

I’ll try to be back up sometime soon, but no promises…

Went to Fry’s electronics today expecting to buy a replacement for my stolen camera, but their salespeople are so inept that I decided they didn’t deserve my money (“I’m sorry sir, but we can’t turn them on for you”—NO SALE FOR YOU). Instead I wandered into their speaker room (as I usually do at some point) and spotted a pair of these on the top shelf with a red reduced price tag…

Cambridge Sound Works M50 Bookshelf Speakers

They were store display models on sale at a discount, $95.67 for the pair. I compared them to some Polk speakers of similar size that were on sale for $40 a pair, but the Cambridge’s were much more lively and accurate, with a noticably better soundstage even in the horrible little listening room (that’s just speaker nerd speak for “where you can hear the sound coming from”—with good speakers, you don’t want to hear the sound coming from the speakers; you don’t want to hear the speakers at all, just the music). Definitely worthy of their $299 list price, and at $95, I couldn’t pass them up.

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Someone just brought it to my attention that comments haven’t been working for anyone for the last… few weeks, probably. And I thought it was just that no one read anymore.

Anyway, comments should be working again. I tried to hack wordpress to send a certain spam phrase to exit(), but apparently it made everything die. Note to self: test after hacking next time.

Sorry for the stupidity… go back and post your comments again if you remember them!

It’s amazing how a clean refrigerator makes you feel good about your entire life—like maybe if there isn’t ketchup spilled all over the glass, or an old can of something you can’t even remember putting back there—maybe if you can keep your fridge clean, then everything might just turn out alright.

Update: Darn! Comments weren’t working while the discussion was hot! I got a huge spike of hits from this one too… feel free to comment now…
Or “Why The Video Phone Went the Way of the Dinosaur”

First, a little context. This morning, Facebook, the huge college-turned-global social networking site, released a new feature known as Feeds. Essentially, Feeds are a down-to-the-second record of everything you do on Facebook, whether it be adding a picture, adding a comment to someone’s profile, changing your profile, joining a group, even getting “in a relationship,” and Feeds are public for all of your friends to see. There’s even a “Master Feed” on everyone’s front page that shows you all of the news related to all of your friends’ accounts. That’s right, it shows you, all in one place, what everyone else did/is doing/wrote/thought about/uploaded/RSVP’d to/created/hooked up with/etc!

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