I like those percentages – ssd failures…

I’ve been pointing clients to solid state drives (ssd) for a while now. I still believe dell.com & other vendors are charging too high a premium – but I like those percentages. Via slatedot.org: “SSD annual failure rates under warranty tend to be around 1.5%, while HDDs are near 5%”


Be careful out there folks

Fake malware warn droid. History repeats. Mobile advertising – they’re not validating what they’re pumping to handsets – lame. Sad. Not planning on following the links but if it’s biz. as usual – they’d either follow to asking for a credit card (to cover their costs to help me) or they’ll actually try to install […]


A few shots around the bridge

Hard rock replacement. “Chuck’s Manufacturing“? Ok. See the weeds? Kayaks. Sunday dinner via pioneer… I do the potatoes (braise 1st) in the pot. They’re good that way.


Not a bad end to Labor Day weekend

A few Labor Day panning videos at Montrose Point.     So much for auto focus. :). And – just for grins – bargain late lunch at a Clark St. Tacqueria looping south by bike after the beach.


Weird s*** at godaddy (or bluehost, or wordpress….) today

At some point you just throw in the towel & humor their failures. Clues so far: bluehost absolutely positively INSISTS on installing wordpress in a subdirectory – not root? godaddy aboslutely positively INSISTS on installing wordpress at root – not a subdirectory. wordpress – not much help. Seeing frustrated postings (search “wordpress subdirectory” or “wordpress […]


HTC memory cleanup or…

…an app too far? Suspicious of some of these #’s. Better speed post cleanup? Yep.


A few shots from the terrace

Sf/Oakland foggy again this am. Nice.


1st Dearborn bikeway

Two different detours eastbound (Italy street festival, Greek street festival) landed me on Dearborn. Confusing lights at 1st. More at tribune here.


1st Seitan

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e-reader snl “really? w/seth & amy moment

Continuing to spend a little time w/e-reader options & issues – thanks cpl 3 reserve limit!  😉 Short form –  it is possible to overcome commercial e-reader (kindle) nonsensical block of basic copy/paste functionality.       Paste to google doc.