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Archive for February, 2008

Odds and ends and hell freezing over?

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

It’s been pretty quiet here for about a week. Everyone in the house seems to have for the most part gotten over the sickness (knock on wood). It’s nice not hearing anyone sneeze or cough for a couple of days now. On another note I finally blew away the last windows partition in my household. […]

Petition to Toshiba to open the specifications on their HD-DVD player line

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

So Toshiba has officially surrendered in the HD format war. What’s next for HD-DVD owners? Yes, we can continue using our HD-DVD players as upscaling DVD players for our standard definition DVD collection. How about something more? Wouldn’t it be cool if Toshiba open sourced their entire line of HD-DVD players so that enthusiasts could […]

Tis the season of sickness

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Since December it seems someone in my house has continually had a cold of some sorts. My son brings home the sickness from school, gives it to my wife then she gets the baby sick and then I get it from the baby. As soon as it seems we’re not sick anymore someone else starts […]

New Jericho episode is on tonight

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

Just a reminder that Jericho is on tonight on CBS at 10:00 PM. The network actually listened to the fans and brought the show back from oblivion. Show your support and watch it live. Thanks

Final thoughts on the Open Moko phone

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Well, my week is up with the OpenMoko phone. I have to say the developer platform is for the most part functional but definitely not an end user product. The OpenMoko people were very honest and up front in portraying it as such. The phone is very promising and development is occurring at a very […]

Testing out the 850 Mhz OpenMoko

Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

I volunteered to participate in the 850Mhz test for the OpenMoko project. The test is using the older GTA01 (developer platform) version and not the new Freerunner model that will be released in the coming months.
Here’s a hardware comparison of the current GTA01 version vs the upcoming Freerunner release. While originally announced as a […]

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