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Archive for November, 2007

Tue
27
Nov '07

So, you ask, how’s MY day???

Pulling into the parking lot this morning I hit a patch of ice. Hit the brakes and then proceeded to hit the curb…. The results are such: The funniest thing was that I thought to myself, “Self, this isn’t good, but you can put the spare on, go over to the tire shop and get [...]

Tue
27
Nov '07

EDI – Circa 1992

I just found this article about TSI International out on the internet. These were the “good old days”. I remember talking to Hank, Bill, Lewis and Brenda ( I miss these people ) about this and asking how come we couldn’t preconfigure the system and use the tool (I forget the name) to extract the [...]

Fri
9
Nov '07

Black Friday is going to make this HD war get a little more uglier!

Samsung Blu-Ray Player w/8 Free Movies – $377.99 & Sony Playstation 3 40GB Console w/Free Controller & 5 Blu-Ray Movies – $399.99 at Circuit City Black Friday…. This war is going to get ugly! Especially if those movies are take home, not mail in….

Mon
5
Nov '07

How HD DVD can win the battle

I love my Toshiba A20. All of the movies we watch on it look good. HD or SD (with upconverting) look great. Disney movies such as Cars, Toy Story 1 & 2 and Dreamworks stuff like Madagascar and Shrek look awesome. So here’s what the HD people need to do: 1.) Price the A2/A3 at [...]

Fri
2
Nov '07

Yea! I now have a HD DVD playmate!

Chris was one of the lucky people who got the Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD player for $98 from Wallyworld. Now I’ve got someone I can trade movies with and another person in the “red” camp instead of the “blue” camp… Nothing like watching a movie in high-def…… It appears that they were selling pretty good [...]