February 26, 2008 · No Comments

If you’re on the east coast, better hurry if you want your Starbucks fix — the stores will be closing for 3 hours (5:30 – 8:30 PM local time) today in only 15 minutes!

eta: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2004177542_baristas12.html

 February 26, 2008 · No Comments

Woohoo! Almost ready!

 February 19, 2008 · No Comments

Speaking as someone who not only has a need for large amounts of data storage (yay photography!) and in the recent past has lost data due to the sudden failure of some of his large amounts of data storage (boo for sudden disk failures!), there’s one word to describe the Drobo:

WANT. This is perfect for me to use to store the photos I take!

 February 12, 2008 · No Comments

The legality of skateboarding in the Inner Harbor aside, conduct like that from an officer of the law is reprehensible. So is punching teenagers in the jaw and assaulting passers-by while off-duty. Three incidents. Three news stories about police misconduct, excessive force and assault. In two days!

Remarkably, not even a year ago (May 4, 2007), Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon proclaimed that the Baltimore City Police Department had “a 41 percent drop in excessive force complaints and a 29 percent drop in discourtesy complaints” in the first four months of 2007. It seems hard to believe when confronted with incidents like these.

And of these three events, the only incident resolved thus far resulted in a one-year’s probation for the officer in question. Internal-affairs investigations are all well and good, but still, shouldn’t the police be held to a higher standard?