Go Apolo!

history politics technology

It seems that things have changed in the last decades.

Of course, I can not spell, even if my life would be depending on it. But I am not in the business of making public displays. Lame excuse. I know.

maxtor sucks?

confessions of a pixel pusher internet misc technology

“Storage Mojo” is usually pretty scientific, this ‘analysis’ about consumer hard drives is a bit more creative. Counting google hits with BRANDNAME sucks is a bit of a short cut. However, the results seem to come up with a winner. And the margins are definite enough to have some meaning. And with this kind of result I like a creative way of using google.

lsscsi

confessions of a pixel pusher

It might have a weird looking name, but otherwise I like lsscsi

It gives you a good idea about the state of your linux scsi devices.

acco air conditioning in Los Angeles

confessions of a pixel pusher technology

When you are planning on doing a buildout in Los Angeles, do not use Acco. They suck beyond believe. There are not many things you can do wrong with AC. One of them confusing in and out on a system. Certainly that’s what happened at a quarter million dollar job.

fxguide about transformers

confessions of a pixel pusher

fxguide interviews Michael Bay

I hope for selfish reasons that many people will
digg it
: I have an ad on fxguide right now.

misc

Nintendo’s market cap is higher than Sony’s by now.

eleven years after ID4
27TB is an impressive number for 1994.

Learned today that a dollar bill has an aspect ratio of 1 to 2.35
In case you shoot scope, or want to know if a crop is really 2.35 or something else.

art communication marketing

business cards

lots of ideas it seems.

three powers

politics

Democracy works really best, when there are three powers that have to interact in predefined roles with each other.

Some democracies have people in power that don’t really care

area code non sense

misc

While I am still waiting for AT&T to activate my 1-800 number that I have ordered 2 weeks ago, others have
other problems

The area code stupity shows what happens when you shoehorn a new concept (cell phones) into an existing system that has conflicting features (area codes). Area codes are for an area. A location. Mobile phones are call mobile, because, well, they can be in different places. This multi billion dollar industry somehow overlooked this basic fact. It was only in 1951 that the current system is in service. Around twenty years ago it became clear that area codes don’t work that well: splits and overlays are hacks to overcome a built in premise. And locality does not matter anymore due to technology. It used to be a big deal if you called somebody ‘long distance’ or not. Not anymore.