• Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On May 7, 2006

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The Project goes RAID

I alluded a few days ago to the fact that the Project has been stalled for a while because of a lack of disk space. Well, things may be about to get a little kick start. I ordered a 500 GB drive and a miniStack case from Other World Computing. In fact, I like the [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On May 7, 2006

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It’s a Tivo world

We haven’t had access to a DVR since we got the HD TV, since Comcast doesn’t offer a cable box + HDTV DVR. In fact, we’ve hardly used the main TV setup since we got the HDTV. That’s about to change: we just picked up a Tivo + DVD burner combo from Circuit City, who [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On May 7, 2006

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Oedipus, complex

Boston Globe: BSO brings full drama to ‘Oedipus’. The Globe generally liked our performance; Richard Dyer was kind enough to note that “the men of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus sang with excellent intonation and driving rhythm”—and not to mention that we sang with scores, a first in recent memory for a non-Pops concert.
Behind the scenes, [...]

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On May 7, 2006

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Feeds: Microsoft gets RSS

Tip from Dave Winer: this appears to be a new central directory for Microsoft.com RSS feeds. Nice! Wonder who’s responsible for the work. The layout actually looks much better than the Microsoft Blogs page, much as it hurts me to say it.

  • Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On May 7, 2006

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Nice horse at SnapperBlue

Looks like George Chang is blogging again—and posting to Flickr. Some really killer underwater photos. He finds that keeping a separate blog for water (SCUBA, photography) and vacation related topics has helped jump-start his writing. I found the same thing when I was doing the Boycott Sony blog. I don’t really have time for doing [...]