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The MacBook Pro Needs an Expansion Bay

Eric Cheng has just rocked his MacBook Pro. He installed a second hard drive called the MCE Optibay which replaces your internal SuperDrive with a standard notebook hard drive and took it a step further by striping the disks (RAID 0). This gives him a pretty big...

Backup Bliss with OS X

Recently I lost a bunch of data from a MacBook Pro that spun off of the corner of my sofa onto my hardwood floor. Ouch. My last backup had been about a month earlier so I lost some pretty important stuff I was working on at the time and had to spend hours mungeing the...

Hello World.

I’m back. Looking forward to sharing ideas and communicating my deepest, innermost thoughts in this roadside confessional. I think this blogging thing may be taking off. More on why I’m online here. Thanks to Riki Tiki Tavi for her invaluable help getting...

RIP HDMI: Misadventures with Shaw, Motorola PVRs, and HDCP

So, my Motorola DCT6412 Packed it in over the weekend (note to self: add ventilation to my entertainment console… plasma TVs, Receivers, PVRs, AppleTVs, and XBOX360s can generate lots of heat) and I swapped it with my cable company, Shaw Cable, for a newer...

Warning Labels on Fat Kids

Some folks wanna put warning labels on Soft Drinks. I think that, just to be sure, the US should install warning labels on all fingers indicating that putting them in proximity to one’s mouth while holding food could result in dire obesity, particularly in North...