This is pretty funny. Amazon accidentally listed a computer with a 10 GHz processor and a 3 terabyte hard drive (30,000 Gigabytes). As a result, they got a lot of sarcastic reviews on the typo-laden product listing.
“I hooked up my scanner to this beast and now there are two of me…. and my copy (no – really – the COPY) is getting me into all kinds of trouble.”
This product seems pretty cool. It’s a watch that monitors your sleep patterns – the review seems to confirm that it actually works. Instead of simply setting an alarm to wake you up at 7AM, you can set the watch to wake you up sometime between 6:30 and 7, and it will detect when you’re sleeping the most lightly and wake you up at that time – so the whole wake-up process isn’t as painful.
Mentioned on Gizmodo.
I did some snowmobiling in Vermont this weekend. Pictures are here if you’re interested.
This weekend Juliana came into town, as did her sister and her sister’s boyfriend. We proceeded to tour the Sam Adams brewery and the Harpoon Brewery. Pictures in Flickr for those who are interested and/or have an account.
If you happen to install Visual Studio, make sure you make no mistakes in your product key. If you don’t, it won’t tell you until after installing the multi-gigabyte beast. Then when you run it, you get an error. How do you re-enter the key? Simple, according to the knowledge base article you just remove and re-install the whole thing. 3 hours later, you’ll find out if you got it right or if you have to reinstall again.
Amid the stories yesterday of XM raising rates to $12.95/month, one of the facts that seems to get buried in the Sirius vs. XM comparison is that Opie and Anthony’s channel will cease to become a paid extra. It will now be included in basic XM service. The expectation of the boys, of course, is that this will open them up to a lot more new listeners.
Also with the new pricing, online access to XM becomes part of the standard plan rather than a paid extra. So, for people who used to pay for both online access and O&A, the new pricing will actually be cheaper.
I now have over 1000 pictures in Flickr. I do like it. If you haven’t signed up yet – do it, it’s sweet. Here’s a randomly rotating picture from my photostream:
Although tickets aren’t on sale yet, Jim Norton is coming to Boston to do the Comedy Connection on April 8th and 9th. As soon as they go on sale, I’m picking up tickets for the 9th. Who else is in? The Comedy Connection is in Faneuil Hall.
Courtesy of BoingBoing, apparently they’re making an underwater hotel in the Bahamas. $1500/night seems a little steep to me, but this picture is pretty compelling. Compelling, of course, if you think there will actually be dolphins and tropical fish swiming inches from your window. Maybe they’ll put out some food or something to keep interesting animals nearby. It would definitely be cool to see a shark maul another animal outside your window.
I’ve never actually paid for a ringtone, but I did create my first ringtone today, for nothing. This post at LifeHacker points to a video that explains how to do it, and links to the site that’s providing the service for free. It’s pretty cool because you can use any part (limit 20 seconds) of any mp3 you have. I chose the first 15 seconds of The Roots – The Seed 2.0. It sounded pretty good.
Note that it’s not actually free if your cell phone provider charges you for data downloads, but it’s still probably much cheaper (it was much cheaper for me).