Monthly Archives: January 2005

Atlanta was hit by a major ice storm which began Friday night and continued into Saturday, and the lingering affects continue into Sunday. I’ve posted a gallery of images taken around our house – I didn’t venture too far out … Continue reading →

Posted on January 30, 2005 by jetrotz | Leave a comment

Ben’s Back

Posted on January 30, 2005 by jetrotz

Great news by email on Friday, courtesy of the Ben Folds mailing list. Ben’s first album since 2001 is coming out on April 26th – Songs for Silverman. “Landed,” the first single, is already on some radio stations. It officially … Continue reading →

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Best GTA Stunt Ever?

Posted on January 30, 2005 by jetrotz

While Kotaku.com dubs this perhaps the best ever stunt, I’m not so sure. But it is pretty amazing, and a testament to the fact that exploring this gamespace is just as enjoyable as following the ‘missions’ within. Beware low flying … Continue reading →

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Another G5 Powerbook Clue?

Posted on January 27, 2005 by jetrotz

An intrepid reader of the British website theregister.co.uk tipped the site off to an interesting bit of code on Apple’s Powerbook product page. Apparently, a 1×1 pixel tracking gif from marketing firm Avenue A is labelled as ‘apple_g5_powerbook.’ A typo, … Continue reading →

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Asteroid Adams

Posted on January 26, 2005 by jetrotz

MSNBC.com reports today that Asteroid Douglasadams was among the 71 newly named celestial objects announced Tuesday by the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Adams is one of my favorite writers as I blogged about his … Continue reading →

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Google Browser Rumors

Posted on January 25, 2005 by jetrotz

In more Google news today, Reuters reports that Google has hired the lead engineer for Firefox. This comes on the heels of their registration of the Gbrowser.com domain and hiring of several Internet Explorer engineers last year.

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Googling Television

Posted on January 25, 2005 by jetrotz

Google and Yahoo are expanding their search products to television. Google Labs released their beta of ‘Google Video’ today. This system allows a user to search closed captioning and see still frame grabs of the relevant video. Some PVRs and … Continue reading →

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My Aching Teeth…

Posted on January 21, 2005 by jetrotz

At my 6-month teeth cleaning earlier this week, the dentist found a hairline crack in both of my lower back molars. Ouch. One was worse than the other, so I went under the drill Thursday to get a crown. I … Continue reading →

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This is a site update. I’ve added a pretty slick feature to Trotz.com, a set of (for now) four headline aggregation pages, implemented with the spiffy PHP program ‘zFeeder‘. Listed on the left rail of most pages of the site … Continue reading →

Posted on January 21, 2005 by jetrotz | Leave a comment

The Best Media Center That Isn’t

Posted on January 19, 2005 by jetrotz

Guest columnist Ross Rubin blogs on Engadget today that despite Apple not calling the Mac mini a media center device, it has all that in spades. DVD-player? Check. Rip, Mix, Burn? Check. Ken Burns hi-res slideshow effects? Check. Add on … Continue reading →

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