Author: Dave Schmid

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Today is a good day. I like it when putting together systems just works. My upgrade to 4 TB of online storage went swimmingly well for the Claymark datacenter. Sure it’s easy now… Newegg put their 1 TB WD drives on sale this weekend and I told myself once it hit $99, 4 new ones […]

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To quote one of the all time famous lines from TopGear’s Jeremy Clarkson: “How hard can it be?” Now really – I’ve had my personal HTPC humming along nicely for about 5 months now. I’ve been blown away by: Very low noise Fantastically smooth 24 fps 1080p HDTV playback Vista Media Center (don’t use it […]

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Since the whole election (should) be wrapping up tomorrow, I thought I’d take a final moment to add another campaign item that I’ve found interesting. Obamabats is a font that has 24 dingbats of Barack Obama along with some other patriotic design elements that you can use in making your own Obama media art. Without […]

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I’ve been enjoying the weekly Tina Fay / Sarah Palin spots on Saturday Night Live for the past few weeks just as a lot of you have been… Tina Fey hits Palin so dead on that I had a hard time watching the real debates without being reminded of these skits. So with that being […]

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In my recent wanderings I’ve come across a few more pieces of “stuff” that seemed fun enough to toss into my “want” pile. Probably ranging around $8-$10 each, I’m sure if I “really” wanted them a quick stop over to Amazon would get them delivered to me in no time flat. So I should really […]

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We had our first death in our iPod family this week. Our 80 GB iPod 5.5 decided to no longer charge even though it was “100% Charged”. “Our” iPod is used the same way every day. C uses it an hour a day while she’s walking in the morning 5 days a week (she’s very […]