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1/27/2005

Palm… issues.

My Palm Tungsten T3 is pretty much my gateway to the world when I'm at work, and my backup brain when I'm not at work, remembering birthdays and addresses for me. Lately, I've been feeling cut off from the world and suffering from mild amnesia. My T3 has been very… stupid.
About a week ago this started. it would crash, I'd reset it by hand (which is odd, because I have a program called "crash" that's supposed to automatically restart it in the event of a crash…) all would be happy. This about 2 days ago it got remarkably worse. A reset wouldn't fix anything. I got frustrated and put the thing down on my desk. A few minutes later, I notice a white screen. I try and reset, and it went back to the "Palm Powered" boot up screen, and hung. And then the image starts to fade back to white. I try the dreaded hard reset, and it takes me back to the "Palm Powered" screen, and hangs again. I did some googling and found nothing that seemed to fit. (Part of the reason I'm writing this is to help some other poor sap who runs into this same problem) About when I'm ready to give up, it resets. All my memory is lost, but it starts working again. I restore from a recent backup (woohoo, SD cards!) and carried on with my life.

The Next Day… (Dun DUN dun!) (more…)

Filed under: Gadgets, Geek Stuff — Jay @ 6:38 am

1/25/2005

Water is a Harsh Mistress

We made our second venture to the Y today. I wanted to try and go about 3 times a week, but our plans for last week were waylaid by me getting sick. When we went today, instead of doing the treadmill-and-weights type of workout, we went swimming. They have open lap swimming from 7:30 to 9 every evening. Wow. This was so much harder than my previous workout. I could only do about 4 full laps, free style. My upper body was not prepared. I did a few more laps just kicking, floating on my back, because my legs were not tired yet. This took about 40 minutes. For the remaining 20 minutes, Meg and I did walking laps. I don't think I could handle swimming as my main exercise 3 times a week until I'm in better shape. It will probably be a good indicator of how my other cardio training is going. I wonder if I'll be able add a lap each week? I have no idea if that is an unrealistic goal or not, but I'll try it for a few weeks. I think we're going back for more on Friday, and then again on the weekend.

Filed under: Fitness — Jay @ 9:42 pm

1/24/2005

  • Warning: This Post May Contain Vaginal Bleeding: A friend of a friend of a friend of a friend of my wife found this funny live journal entry. I warned you. (0)

1/22/2005

1/21/2005

HFS is Dead. HFS is Not Dead

So, everyone was sad that HFS was killed by Spanish radio. Sorta. On my way home from work today, I hung up the phone with Meg and my radio came back on. This happpened to occur right at 7:00 PM. I heard "you wanted it back, the lengendary HFS, on Live 105″ and then a song I think was called Pirate Satellite (turns out this was "This is Radio Clash")
Looks like nights and weekends at Live 105.7 in Baltimore are now HFS. Also, you might want to check the old HFS website. Google has the goods.

Update: Ok, AOL Radio is kinda stupid. It thinks Firefox on Linux is a Mac? and says this feature is not yet available on Macintoshes. That's nice. this isn't a mac. Hi, AOL Radio? If you're gonna discriminate, at least get the name right. Hello, My Name is Linus Torvalds, and I pronounce Linux as Linux.

Filed under: General — Jay @ 11:04 pm
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One Happy Kid

This is one happy baby:

4 weeks old

Filed under: General — Jay @ 12:58 pm
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1/20/2005

Researchers Report Bubble Fusion Results Replicated

Hot Damn. Researchers Report Bubble Fusion Results Replicated. This press release contains interesting sentences composed of almost everyday words like:

The research team used a standing ultrasonic wave to help form and then implode the cavitation bubbles of deuterated acetone vapor. The oscillating sound waves caused the bubbles to expand and then violently collapse, creating strong compression shock waves around and inside the bubbles. Moving at about the speed of sound, the internal shock waves impacted at the center of the bubbles causing very high compression and accompanying temperatures of about 100 million Kelvin.

I almost understand this.

(via MeFi)

Filed under: Science — Jay @ 1:50 pm
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1/16/2005

Feel The Burn

Saturday Meg and I opened a membership at the YMCA. Today was the first time we went to workout. We did some treadmill, then some weights and then some more tread mill. About an hour total. I feel good, but I'm afraid I'm going to be a little sore tomorrow. Meg is going out tomorrow night, so I plan on going to swim a few laps. After the $200 fitness reimbursement from work, the membership cost isn't too bad either.

Filed under: Fitness — Jay @ 5:58 pm
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1/12/2005

2004 in Review: Part Eh, Screw it.

Ok, I wrote too much crap in 2004 for to be bothered to review it all before 2005 is in full swing. Remind me in December of this year to only review the highlight of each month for the past year.

As predicted, 2005 tax season at TRP has pretty much eaten up any time I'd have to blog at work, and exhausted me too much to bother blogging anything from home. Look for updates sometime around the end of April. bleh.

Filed under: General — Jay @ 9:23 am
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1/4/2005

2004 in Review: Part July and August

Gah, these are taking a lot longer to get out then I expected. In the following, I return from my honeymoon and buy a house. (more…)

Filed under: General — Jay @ 6:53 pm
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