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I take it (mostly) all back. I just got my Airport Express up and running (thanks Erin for mule'ing it for me!). Total time to "install" and get operational: 4 minutes.
Personal Web Herding: Apple Redeems!

Right now, my main use for this would be as a portable wireless router -- our apartment is too small to require zapping our music to somewhere else. Although, the wireless reception in the bathroom is a little weak...

Troy asked for an update on our use of Basecamp.

Yes, we're keeping it. It's a bit like "project management light", but this is definitely what is wanted if you don't want to get bogged down in updating some sort of tool, but you do need something to organize multiple people and multiple projects that are going on in parallel. Hit the read more link for the full story.

I'm working my way through two Oliver Sacks books rights now. Seems I've been on a science reading kick lately (or "science history", as Trevor calls it).

I actually started with An Anthropologist on Mars. Some of the writing and concepts are very domain-specific, which can make it hard to get through. The concepts about how we "see" colour blew my mind.

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We had free tickets to The Snow Walker tonight. A great Canadian film that is definitely worth watching.

Kate and Mary got us free tickets when they went shopping at MEC the other day.

The entire story takes place in the North West Territories. An Inuit girl teaches an ex-World War II pilot how to survive after he crashes the plane they are both in. That's basically the entire movie, but there's obviously more to it than that :p It's based on a short story called Walk Well My Brother in Farley Mowatt's collection of stories called The Snow Walker.

Good review, including lots of pictures, of the T616. The writer was upgrading from the T68i, which supposedly has very bad reception.

ExtremeTech reviews media front ends -- applications that have a "ten foot interface" suitable for running on a TV.

ExtremeTech considers the following to be the "must have" features, and that is what they used to evaluate the programs:

• Play back stored video (WMV, AVI)
• Play back stored music (WMA, MP3, WAV)
• Display digital photos
• Show and time-shift Live TV
• Be programmed to record live TV

Read on for links to the four applications tested and some thoughts on this segment.

I mentioned this device in passing a little while ago, now here is the full review. Kate and I lent our digital camera out after we went to Troy and Tanya's wedding. We kept the full compact flash card, and then decided to get a card reader so we wouldn't have to wait until we got the camera back to see the pictures.

The choice was between a basic Compact Flash card reader and the AcomData MultiMediaViewer (or MMV for short). Read on for the whole story.

I've just put up a post reviewing the Salmon of Doubt, by Douglas Adams. I'm not totally happy with the method I use now, which is to create a "catalog" item which grabs all the info from Amazon, and then I (or anyone else) can post reviews as comments. But, it is easy, since all the author, title, image, etc. etc. don't need to be manually entered by me -- I just have to find the right ID number, and this works for CDs as well.

Kate introduced me to this site, which seems to have a cleaner design than FilmCan, which is what I always used before. Even has the prices listed for some theaters, and an interesting comment score by gender- and age- grouping -- easy to tell if it's a "chick flick" that way :p

[image:555,left,5,5,0]Kate and I went to the Famous Players at Rideau Centre and saw Matchstick Men.