Owen Pallett is the type of artist I should have been into a long, long time ago. I’ve been casually listening to songs of his (released under the name “Final Fantasy”) for a few years now, but I never actually listened to a full album. I was intrigued by some of the pieces from his [...]
I received my WattsUp .NET a week or two ago and fiddled around with it a bit using its basic logging features. I’m happy to see that it reports 0.1W precision (compared with 1W on the Kill-a-Watt). Overall, the WattsUp seems like a nice device although it is a little tricky to use. Complaints: I [...]
Last year when we put on a new roof to our house, I scrambled to come up with a new home media wiring plan. The wires only cost maybe $200 for all-you-can-eat HDMI and cat6, and the roof costs closer to $25K. So, while we had the plywood decking ripped up, we had the roofers [...]
I thought I would start up what promises to be an irregular series of posts documenting some of the new music I’ve been listening to from the blogs I follow, mostly a repackaging of great content already out there. To make things simple, it is just a playlist (*.m3u) and a track list, in no [...]