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Wow, this week went by fast, can't believe it's already Thursday. A bit of a long week at the office, but also went by fast.

My new Adidas Orginals Dragon arrived today, in red, white and gold, very cool

Wrote a review of this wall mount system for the iPad. Works great, have it setup all over the apartment

The PadTab Wall Mount for the iPad (and other tablets)

Geez, had some network difficulties at home today when I least expected it. Turns out Windows machine self-applied their regular patches last night, and a Windows 7 box decided to turn on its homegroup without asking me anything. That caused it to try to become the browser master and disregard any other workgroups I had previously setup. That in turn caused media players and other devices on the LAN to stop seeing each other, which was puzzling for a few minutes till I realized what was going on.

As soon as I turned off the Windows 7 homegroup, everything started working again.

It is surprising how frail the state of computing in general and home networking is. With more and more networked devices, things are only going to get more complex at home. Simplification and more automated configuration is needed. Computers still behave as if computer engineers are the only people using them.

Happy Labor Day! It's almost over, but it's been nice having an extra day this weekend.

We watched What to Expect When You're Expecting, kind of funny

We are almost at the end of the summer now, it's gone so fast! 3 days off, a nice long weekend. We are headed off to Old Greenwich today, to meet Ingrid and Edward at a clam bake, will be fun. Have to run a few errands before we go. Tomorrow we are having dinner with friends at Otto, yummy.

On the geeky side, I am working on compiling and organizing all my MAME files, may setup a game machine with all the classics. Have files that data back probably 10 years or more!

I watched Battleship last night, was kind of fun, mindless but highly entertaining. With Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker and Liam Neeson.