Gravitational Pull: A blog about tech and other stuff.
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Passover ends with the traditional donut sandwich
After eight days of remembering the deprivations of slavery, another year of Passover ends with a reminder of the joys and luxuries of being free — including the donut sandwich with a side of triscuits and cheez-its. No complaining from the healthy crowd. I used whole wheat bread.
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Google Earth is showing post-Katrina damage
Amidst a debate over what’s what with Google Earth’s view of New Orleans, here’s what the program is showing right now: My post is reacting to some comments on Dave Winer’s blog that missed the message of a Google blog post on the subject and made it sound as though pre-Katrina imagery was still in…
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He marched in the animals, two by two
…And he called out as they came through Hey Lord, I’ve got green alligators and long-necked geese Some humpty backed camels and some chimpanzees Some cats and rats and elephants, but Lord, I’m so forlorn I just can’t find no unicorns. Ah, the Irish Rovers and The Unicorn Song. Brings back fond memories of rainy…
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Sprint USB Modem Smacks Down Verizon
(Updated 3/28) As I mentioned the other day, I just passed my two year anniversary as a customer of Verizon’s wireless broadband service. I decided to try Sprint’s competing service since it costs $20 less a month (I can’t add a voice line to the same account). Well, the Sprint Novatel Ovation U720 modem arrived…
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Time for Sprint v. Verizon for mobile net needs
Well, it seems like only yesterday I was signing up for Verizon’s mobile broadband service with a Novatel v620 PC Card modem at $79.99 a month. But it’s been two years and in the world of cell phone contracts, two is the magic number. I’m free to consider the competition. Why bother? For one, Verizon…
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Why I stopped watching Battlestar Galactica
(Updated 4/4/07) So…turns out it was a ruse concocted by Mister Moore. More here from the L.A. Times (With apologies to Thomas Jefferson) When in the course of television events it becomes necessary for one viewer to dissolve the entertaining bands which have connected them with a show and to assume among the powers of…
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Tivo-Amazon link is cool but what’s the value?
Amazon and Tivo unveiled their joint downloadable video service today. The basic concept is you purchase video content on Amazon’s Unbox service and it automatically downloads onto your home Tivo, where it appears on your “Now Playing” list alongside shows you recorded yourself. It’s obviously yet another way to get downloaded content from the Internet…
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Cool new snapshot feature in Fusion
I’ve been messing around with VMWare’s Fusion software that lets you run virtual machines under OS X. In my case, it’s Windows 2000 which is good enough to run Outlook 2003 and Sony’s horrible digital recorder software. Today I installed the latest and greatest beta version and it has a cool new feature. At the…
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Canon’s new hybrid camera: umm, wow?
(Updated with further reports) Canon unveiled a hybrid still photo/video camera today at such a low price point ($500 manufacturer recommended) with such an insane feature set (7.1 megapixel camera plus high definition video recording and image stabilization) that it almost defies belief. The new Powershot TX-1 has a lot of smart features, from obvious…
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Getting more info with Feedburner
(Updated 2/19 with widget info) I added a MyBlogLog account the other day to get more info about who’s reading my blog but the hole in that strategy is that MyBlogLog only counts people coming to my web site, not those who read entries via RSS. So I’ve now switched my RSS feed sign ups…
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