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Sorry Beagle

Sorry for the lack of posts over the last 24 hours or so. Not only have I been traveling, my hosting provider decided to blow up our server infrastructure overnight, which kept Technabob offline for about 10 hours.

Everything is back up and running, but there was a little nervewracking to say the least.
Regular posting should resume later tonight…

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posted: May 3rd, 2008 stumble it! 3 comments author: technabob

lifetime clock slows time to a crawl

filed under: hacks-mods | timepieces

Life Clock by Bertrand Planes

This clock tells time not in hours, minutes or seconds, but in years. It’s designed to very, very slowly make its way around the dial as you age.

Each number on the dial corresponds to a 7-year period of your life…

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posted: March 13th, 2008 stumble it! 6 comments author: technabob

windows vista dvd burn: got 130 years to kill?

filed under: computing | just plain fun

Vista Wait Dialog

Ah, the power of Windows Vista. Check out this recent screen capture of the progress dialog that appeared when an unsuspecting Vista user tried to burn 15 megabytes of files to a DVD RW drive.

So if I’m doing my math right, the disk will be completed in 2138, a little over 130 years from now…

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posted: December 1st, 2007 stumble it! 7 comments author: technabob

yahoo! hosting sucks

filed under: Uncategorized

ATT Yahoo Loves 500 Errors

I’ve been having sporadic issues with Yahoo!/SBC/Ameritech/AT&T Small Business (or whatever they’re called this week) hosting over the last few days, so if you get 500 errors when trying to reach my site, I’m apologize.

The tech support over at Yahoo!..

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posted: March 2nd, 2007 stumble it! 7 comments author: technabob

sonic the hedgehog abysmal load times

filed under: video games

Check out this video clip of some of the horrifically painful load times for the new Sonic the Hedgehog game, running on the Xbox 360.

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Not only are the load times terrible, the shear quantity of load screens that occur to complete even a simple task are ridiculous…

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posted: January 1st, 2007 stumble it! 2 comments author: technabob

mail delivered by actual snails

filed under: strange and wonderful

Real Snail Mail

Real Snail Mail is an art and technology project being conducted by the technological artists collective of Boredom Research.

The project has real snails delivering electronic messages via tiny RFID tags attached to their shells. The messages are delivered literally “at a snails pace.” to their destinations…

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posted: October 11th, 2006 stumble it! post a comment author: technabob

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