a crank’s progress

Macrumors points out that a company called Cornice “has been producing 1inch 1.5GB Hard Drives since mid year that go for $65/each in lots of 10,000. Cornice was reportedly trying to get these prices down to $50.”
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This is truly getting interesting. As readers have pointed out, 2 GB in flash cards [...]

iPod unit size converter
New times require new measurements . . .
You are 17.56 iPods tall

I like the way life looks from a bicycle
Another “cloudy, chance of sun breaks” weblog?
Who knew?

Nothing like the site of someone else’s mishap to focus attention on a problem.
The objectives of this are simple: back up the www directory on this machine in some easily usable form. I have a tape drive in this box, but tapes are not the easiest things to work with. So I elected to [...]

2003-12-23
I’m not feeling terribly liberated.
More like I should’ve taken backups.
Hmm, how well is your data backed up? There’s room for improvement here . . . . .

Well, I have been beta-testing this for a couple of days now, and I like it a lot. I like not having to use the browser for everything. It’s faster than using a browser, for one thing.
I like using custom tags (you can assign a custom tag to a keystroke combination and quickly format [...]

Great news!!! I recently received news that I passed the October 2003
Patent Bar exam and now have my provisional registration number for the
USPTO. I have been working at the University of Washington Law School for
over a year now and am interested in a new challenge. Please let me know
if you hear of any opportunities [...]

The agents were huddled together, and recognized us. “What did you do with the fish?” they asked, “What did you do with the fish!?”
Sensing a chance for comeuppance, Trey put on his “stone-cold-supportive-protector” face and said with great dramatics, “You know what … we flushed him. We flushed him because you made us [pause for [...]

At some time in the distant past, I made some changes to my stylesheet here to the sidebar stuff on the right.

margin-left: 66%;
width: 33%;

It looked OK to me (note the “Works for me” button at the bottom of that column). But it had the unfortunate effect, for IE users, of pushing everything in that column [...]

iPod Battery FAQ

Is the iPod’s battery replaceable?
Is the iPod’s battery user-replaceable?
What is the iPod’s warranty? Does it cover the battery? Is there any way to extend it?
Does Apple think the iPod is disposable?
I heard that the iPod’s battery only lasts 18 months, and then you have to buy a new iPod! Is that true?
Will the [...]