Our DVD player died last November and we’ve been using the XBOX360 to watch movies. That’s been a pretty decent movie machine but we started to think it might be time to get a blu-ray player to take advantage of our TV’s HD resolution. So this past weekend we did a bit of comparison shopping and [...]
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My dad likes to stay up late and read. I know he’s often bored at night and that he enjoys listening to music, but with everyone else trying to sleep he needs something with headphones. For a few years he’s been using a portable CD player and carrying around some discs. It’s not terribly practical. One of [...] Today I completed the process of porting my cell number to Number Garage. Throughout this effort I’ve been receiving excellent communication from Number Garage, and they succeeded in making the transition very smooth for me. My previous cellular carrier was a little slow in releasing my number, and I spent a long time on hold with [...] For the past 10+ years I’ve had the same mobile number. Originally it was my pager number, then I had it ported to be my cell phone number. Over the years I’ve switched carriers a few times and moved around a bit. But this cell number is my digital identity and it’s been a reliable means [...] Last night during 1 Uppers rehearsal my trusty Fender Hot Rod Deluxe amp started behaving strangely. It was randomly switching channels, the reverb was cutting in / out, and it was making profoundly unmusical sounds. I tried to switch out the cables, the guitar, and so on. Eventually I unhooked the footswitch and unplugged the guitar, [...] I’m not a professional network technician, but over the last decade I seem to have acquired a lot of the necessary skills and tools associated with that trade. Yesterday I spent the better part of 2 hours trying to diagnose an intermittent telephone signal, only to discover the source of the problem was the initial wiring [...] Crikey. I’m hooked on Elder Scrolls : Oblivion for my XBOX 360. I’ve been playing just long enough to realize how big this game actually is… my sad little character is frequently pincushioned with arrows, but I’m learning how to run away (Monty Python style). So far I’ve scratched the surface. This is the “game of [...] During the paleolithic period, primitive man made tools out of stone and everything “electronic” used vacuum tubes. We’re talking all those ancient computers, televisions, radios, audio amplifiers, spacecraft and so on. Vacuum tubes were everywhere and you could find a tube tester in pretty much every grocery store, along with a stock of tubes in case you needed a replacement. Most importantly to guitarists, vacuum tubes were the lifeblood of guitar amps, delivering amazing tone and the occasional burned fingertip. Noble, savage, paleolithic rockers reveled in the awesomeness of tube tone, crafting epic rock anthems to commemorate successful mammoth hunts and the discovery of fire. Thousands of years later, a competing tribe of lab-dwellers invented the practical-yet-soulless transistor and lots of guitar amps went over to the solid state dark side. Many purists feel you just can’t get great guitar tone without tubes. Not that I have a strong opinion on it. I’m just saying… Yesterday I purchased an XBOX 360 with the new 65 nm “Falcon” chipset, which is smaller and more energy efficient than the previous 90 nm build. The biggest differences between this new chip and the old one is heat, which is the prime suspect behind the dreaded RROD. It took a few days of research to understand how [...] Ten days. Then the dreaded Red Ring Of Death. XBOX 360 owners universally dread the RROD, and it seems to happen to every unit eventually. Oh sure, you can cheat the RROD briefly with the old “wrap it up in a towel” trick, but it will just RROD again (permanently) in short order. Mine died an [...] |
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