Station in the Metro

  • BMW 525i (1990)

    My Saturn was dying, so I finally got a replacement car end of last week– a 1990 BMW 525i. It’s a little beat up on the exterior, but the engine seems in good shape and aside from a bit of peeling paint and a little parking lot accident crunch in the front right side, it’s […]

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  • AntiPixel

    I’ve been wondering lately— whever happened to Jeremy Hedley’s AntiPixel? It’s been a full year now since his last post, without so much as a how-do-you-do. I hope he’s okay.

  • HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray

    This The Digital Bits reader writes in with a letter that almost exactly mimics my own take on this, only I happen to have sided with HD-DVD — not because I think it’s a better format, but the players were much cheaper, and I felt one was as good as another at this point, and […]

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  • Netflix, GreenCine and RedBox Video Rental Trends

    I was looking at my Netflix history earlier, and was wondering how my rental frequency was trending. So, in the interest of being complete, I went over my entire history, including my GreenCine subscription (which I have because they carry some rare movies that Netflix doesn’t) and RedBox rentals (which I use every once in […]

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  • Ch-ch-check it out

    Things that I’m looking forward to, or checking out right now:

  • Getting RubyCocoa running once you install Safari 3 Beta

    If, like me, you were foolish enough to install the Safari 3 beta, and are now wondering why the heck RubyCocoa won’t work (or worse yet, why the install keeps failing), check out the article Safari 2, Safari 3, Adium & forcing WebKit Frameworks from SubtleGradient.com. Once I went through the steps outlined here, things worked fine, where the Safari 3 Beta Uninstaller had not. (The beta Uninstaller didn’t properly restore the old version of WebKit, plus somehow wiped out my entire WebKit Headers folder.)