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Butterfly Photo

Jun 20, 2005 ramblings

Over the weekend, I made an electronics purchase from Butterfly Photo, and this morning, I received an email asking me to call about my order. I figured it would be something like they needed to verify my shipping address, or it was out of stock or something, but no. It was just that they were planning on shipping it out today, and it should be delivered on Friday, and would that be okay? And also, did I have any questions about my purchase while they had me on the phone?

If the rest of their customer service is as good and personal as that phone call (even if it was I who had to dial the number), I can see why they’ve got such high ratings on all of the consumer sites. Can’t wait for Friday. 😉
Catalogue

Jun 19, 2005 ramblings

In the interest of clearing out my bins full of paper goods, I present a list of my favorite catalogs, partially for my own reference, but hopefully also for your enjoyment as well.
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Ooh, shiny…

Jun 19, 2005 geek

We have a shiny new Mac mini running Tiger Server hosting the sties now, and aside from a really stupid mySQL change on Apple’s part, everything went remarkably smoothly. Yay!
Tales of the Odd, Issue 3

Jun 16, 2005 art

Well, it’s now officially available for pre-order! Yes, you too can own the beautiful cover art I created, attached to a wonderful comic book written by my friend, Ron "AAlgar" Watt. As AAl puts it:

This is it— the end of the backstory and the beginning of the… er… front story.

Penny Lawson’s life never turned out exactly the way she’d hoped. A chance encounter with a supervillain ruins her budding career in journalism before it has a chance to even begin. Since then, she’s managed to barely eke out an existence, working a thankless retail job, living uncomfortably with her ex-boyfriend, and attempting to slow the loss of her sanity by playing with "Secret War Surplus" gadgets. Now, finally, at age 30, her luck is about to change.

Also, more stuff happens with that Canopenerman guy.

Go, now, and consume!
Gigabit Ethernet Connections

Jun 16, 2005 geek, howto

Yesterday, we had quite a scare. We had run CAT5e cable throughout the ceilings and walls of the office, but when we plugged them into the gigabit Ethernet switch, none of the link lights lit up. We were dumbfounded. All of this cable had tested fine. We tried shorter cable, different cable, none of it […]
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Twisted Pair Ethernet Connectors

Jun 11, 2005 geek

I’m doing an expansion of the editing systems where I work, including setting up and entire new separate LAN for the metadata traffic for the new Xsan. I just figured out, if you cut the vinyl sheathing on twisted-pair ethernet cable (like, say, CAT5e) shorter, it actually leads to less twist-wrangling, and the connectors go on faster and easier. Wish I’d figured that out two days ago. 😛
Macintosh on Intel

Jun 6, 2005 geek

Holy crap, the rumors are actually true.

Apple to Use Intel Microprocessors Beginning in 2006

Mark Boszko

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