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Sunday, Nov 22 2009

wireless usb card turning off

I think I figured out why the wireless N card has been turning off after a few hours: very simple, power savings. The driver had the box to let the computer turn off the device to save power checked, and so it did. I just turned that off, let's see if it stays on, my guess is that of course it will.

fairly satisfied with Airlink's cheapo little USB card, it was like $25 at Microcenter and works great.

new vacuum cleaner

Our vacuum cleaner broke down again, so I finally went ahead and ordered a new one online. I got the Hoover U6485900 Anniversary WindTunnel Self Propelled Vacuum. It is highly recommended by Consumer Reports, and I got a reasonable deal on it.

work update - overwhelming offers

Our Overwhelming Offers app at work is picking up steam, here are several recent articles talking about it, plus a link to the Yahoo version of the application where everybody can participate, and a link to download the Blackberry application on appworld. The iPhone version and the Android version are coming soon, days away.

AppWorld Overwhelming Offers (Konstantin did a great job on this one)

Yahoo Overwhelming Offers

Mobile Commerce Daily

PCMag Tech Saver

Sunday - grocery shopping

We went to Trader Joes to get some groceries for the upcoming weekend, Nicole's family will be visiting. This was just a small set of items that Trader Joes carries that we like, the rest will be delivered via Fresh Direct. Trader Joes was a zoo, as usual, the line is so long that it wraps around the entire store. This store is the highest grossing in the country. It actually didn't take that much, they are fairly well organized.

I was going to twitter about it, but as usual the 3G coverage for AT&T is awful, so no luck. When I launch Tweetie, my iphone client, it spins for minutes trying to download the data, and it typically never comes back, the speed is slow. AT&T has got to do something about this, their data network in the NYC metro sucks, can't keep up.

Saturday, Nov 21 2009

this is it

Watching "This is It", a documentary about Michael Jackson's last few months preparing for a big comeback Tour, it's OK.

Bruno and Gamer coming down fast, the regular divx 700 Mb version takes less than 15 min from start to finish, astounding.

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