Rocket Silence

I won’t begin to claim that Apple reinvented the music industry or make any sweeping claims, but it must be acknowledged the impact that this company has had on the the creation and consumption of music. With iTunes + iPod, Apple introduced a new and simple way for the younger generation to experience their music. [...]

This is officially, my favorite thing ever.
Context: Disillusioned David Archuleta fans as the winner of American Idol 7 was announced in May earlier this year. I think it was the screen-printed Archie-shirt that did him in.
SLYT video is behind the cut…

I’m saddened so few people got my joke earlier on Twitter, so much so that I feel it necessary to explain it because it involves two excellent dramas that everyone needs to have watched in their lifetime.
First, Matt Santos was a character on the West Wing played by Jimmy Smits. Santos was a Democratic senator [...]

For the first time in a long while, I’m excited and hopeful for the future of this nation. Join me in fulfilling our civic duty.

Four days ago, Microsoft unveiled the pre-beta of Windows 7 at PDC and offered up quite a few user interface changes meant to streamline the aging operating system. What they came up with was a taskbar that mimics the styling of the KDE on Linux and further extends the broken window preview concept introduced in [...]

Photo Credit: randomtruth on Flickr – used under CC license
Well, after three weeks, I’m back in Santa Barbara and have returned to UCSB just in time for two back-to-back midterms and a paper due on Thursday. The time in San Francisco was fun, but I’m glad to be home. While there, I registered as a [...]

For those wondering about my whereabouts recently, I’ve been in San Francisco and its surrounding areas for the past week. I’ll be here for at least another week and a half for obligations I couldn’t get out of or complete closer to home. Keeping up with school work remotely isn’t too difficult and I, luckily, [...]

Drupal limits the character length of a node title to 128-characters for a old and antiquated limitations of early versions of MySQL. There is a way to get around this by modifying part of the MySQL tables used for nodes and increasing the value a title can contain to the limit of 255-characters. This is [...]

Continuing with the recent string of laptop related posts, I thought I should post a few of the disassembly photos I took of the Lenovo X200. Taking the laptop apart is rather simple – just remove the screws on the the laptop (depending on what you want to remove, you only have to unscrew certain [...]

“I missed you too” – on Flickr by süńdāyx

I’m disappointed with Apple. I’ve been using their machines since I was four years old and have been buying them personally for the past seven. It has been my preferred platform of choice and I’ve never been unhappy with the hardware choices available to me until now. [...]

There has been a huge amount of hype and misinformation in the solid-state drive debate as of late and whether it’s a technology that’s ready for primetime; I recently purchased one with my newest computer and want to offer some real-world tests. The drive in question is a Samsung 64GB SATA SSD (1.8″, Model No. [...]

Have you ever needed to install Windows on a computer that doesn’t have an optical drive? I ran into this issue recently when I needed to install Windows Vista on my newest laptop, a Lenovo ThinkPad X200, and thought it would be useful to share the rather simple process here. You can do it from [...]