Ramblings

Express Car Delivery

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It’s like driving a beach-ball that fights back. So says Marisa on driving a (2003) Prius.  Apparently the 2010 ones are “better” insofar as they’ve had the will to fight back beaten out of them.

Lady Antebellum & Darius Rucker in concert

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Last night Marisa and I went to a performance by Lady Antebellum, with Thompson Square and Darius Rucker opening.  At the HP Pavillion. I had forgotten how awful the acoustics are there.  Massive reverb, and a closed roof contributing to the cheap-speakers-way-over-driven effect.  Which was very unfortunate.  But nonetheless the show was entertaining.  It just… Read more

Further iPad 3 notes

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Battery life is indeed something of an issue. I can no longer just juice it for an hour or two a day, like with my iPad 2 – instead, it really needs all night to charge. And the battery life is at best the same as the iPad 2. So it doesn’t feel as untethered… Read more

iTunes Match

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Urgh… the downside of a new iPad is that I now have to put up with the horrible process of getting my music onto it. In the so-called bad old days, I’d sync it to iTunes. It’d take an hour or two and then it’d be done. But that’s not how we do things in… Read more

Settlers 7

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I’ve been playing Settlers 7 for a few weeks now. I’m on the last campaign level now. It’s immensely frustrating at times because it’ll often crash on launch repeatedly, requiring a restart of the whole computer before it’ll get going. It’ll also crash occasionally when in the game. Nonetheless it is entertaining. It’s been a… Read more

iPad 3 is finally here

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Who delivers an iPad 3 at 2:45 PM on release day?  I mean really… And then it takes two hours to sync all my crap to it.  Makes it a little awkward to really enjoy that “oooh shiny!” moment. But it’s here, and done, and good to go.  It is noticeably heavier than my iPad… Read more