- MoviesThis area of the site has to do with movies, be it my reviews of them or my primary hobby of film scores, etc. In here you will find things like: 2007 Films This is list of the 2007 films I’ve seen theatrically, listed in order of preference with my score out of 10 for each film in parenthesis and a link to the full review. 2007 Film Scores Here we have the films I’ve seen for 2007 broken down into my order of favorite music score. 2007 Viewing Log This is a log of my theatrical movie going for 2007. 2006 Films This is list of the 2006 films I saw theatrically, listed in order of preference with my score out of 10 for each film in parenthesis and a link to the full review. 2006 Film Scores Here we have the films I’ve seen for 2006 broken down into my order of favorite music score. 2006 Retrospective This is a listing by category of my favorite films. It’s basically my version of the Oscars.
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Category Archive for: ‘Technology’
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Top 10 Tips Before Getting Help From Your Nerd Friend
I’ve been meaning to put this list together for years and get it posted. As somebody who’s been messing with computers pretty much since he could walk and talk (yes, even back in the ’70s), there’s rarely a day that goes by where I’m not …
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New Workstation Build
A lengthy write-up of my new workstation computer build.
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Part 2 Of My unRAID Experience
This is a follow-up to my first post about my initial build of my unRAID storage server. So having spent more than a month with my new unRAID box, I thought I’d add some follow-up comments. I have added a fifth drive to the mix …
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unRAID Server Build
Anyone who knows me can attest to the fact that I’ve got tons of data files, many of which are large media files. In the past, I’ve kept them on various hard drives. Some of them (with the more often used data) are kept as …
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The Third Dimension
Spent the last few hours watching the two new 3D Blu-Ray releases that came out today. First up was Journey To The Center Of The Earth, which is a movie I consider more fun that most people likely do. It has little basis in reality, …
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Tech Support
Here’s an online chat transcript that a colleague of mine had with Earthlink tech support today. I’ve changed the name of the customer service rep and customer to protect the innocent/frustrated. As somebody who actually does support end users (though not in the same manner …
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RIP: HD-DVD
OK folks, it’s official. As of the press conference that happened a matter of a few hours ago in Tokyo, Toshiba has announced their official exit from the HD-DVD format. Blu-Ray is the official winner. Now, let’s get Paramount and Universal ported over to BD ASAP and …
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This HD leopard changes his spots
As some of you may know, I made the jump to the HD formats a few months ago. I did so via Blu-Ray & HD-DVD drives for the PC. Lacking HDCP encryption support on both my HD monitor and my front projector, I was forced …
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Screw You, Paramount…
Paramount has just elevated the high definition format war from idiotic to mind numbingly imbecilic. Their reasoning in their press release is nothing short of utter PR crap. As much as those people who always think that everyone has sold out annoy me, I have …
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DVD Profiler 3
Woo hoo! Out of nowhere, and after a mysterious year of no updates, DVD Profiler gets a major version release (3.0). Apparently Ken (the developer) really has been busy all this time. This is the app I use to track my rather massive DVD collection. …