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Archive for March, 2007

Samsung 206BW Triple Head

Posted by Chief Oddball on Saturday, March 31st, 2007 in Computers

I’ve finally retired my last CRT monitor. Today I picked up three of Samsung’s new line of widescreen LCD monitors, the 20-inch 206BW. With a native a resolution of 1680×1050, a response time of 2ms and a dynamic contrast ratio of 3000:1, these monitors are perfect for graphic design and gaming. They’re [...]

Flex Falls Flat

Posted by Chief Oddball on Friday, March 30th, 2007 in Auto News, Cars

I recently blogged offhandedly about Ford’s stodgy new crossover replacement for the Windstar, their new Ford Flex, which was less than aptly named in my opinion. Apparently, auto industry critic Peter D. Lorenzo doesn’t think much of the name, either:

The Ford Flex -? Is that a new exercise machine you can order in the [...]

We’re Back

Posted by Chief Oddball on Thursday, March 29th, 2007 in Life

We’ve arrived home safe and sound from our Asian expedition. Everything was just as we’d left it — no problems here at the house, the cars still started just fine, and all the electronic equipment is still working. In fact, I am amazed at the speed of my desktop computer — both from [...]

Heading Home Tomorrow

Posted by Chief Oddball on Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 in Life

Today is our final day in Thailand! Tomorrow morning we head for the airport and begin our lengthy, multi-faceted journey home. As much as Apple and I both want to get home, neither one of us wants to spend much time thinking about what we’ll have to endure to get there. At [...]

My Seven Warehouse Cars

Posted by Chief Oddball on Sunday, March 25th, 2007 in Cars, GarageBlog

Glancing back at my “Maseratisti” post from the other day, I got to wondering what seven cars I would choose to stash away in a warehouse if I had the money and space that Apple’s uncle Preecha does. Since such musings wouldn’t be as interesting without visual aids, here’s where my rambling thoughts led [...]

New HD Channels in Southwest Florida?

Posted by Chief Oddball on Saturday, March 24th, 2007 in Media, Television

For months now, I’ve been anxiously awaiting Comcast’s launch of several new high definition channels in our area of Southwest Florida. The upgrades have been appearing in markets all over the country, but SWFL was left high and dry…until now. If the Zap2it TV listings are to be believed, our market has finally [...]

Archival Content, You Want It?

Posted by Chief Oddball on Friday, March 23rd, 2007 in Site

Over the last couple days, whilst unable to sleep at one in the morning, I’ve been absently traveling back through the old “Private Oddball” archives from 1994 and onward. “Private Oddball” is the throwaway name I gave to the blog I keep privately on my local machine, which serves as a personal journal of [...]

The Home Stretch

Posted by Chief Oddball on Friday, March 23rd, 2007 in Life, Randomness

Another work week come and gone (although it looks like I’ll still be working tomorrow), and with that, Apple and I are now approaching the last few days of our excursion to Thailand.
It’s been a good few days. At work, we’re close to completion on our big new product version, the new user interface [...]

Maseratisti

Posted by Chief Oddball on Sunday, March 18th, 2007 in Cars, Life

I’ve mentioned Apple’s uncle Preecha before. He’s the man who made a very good living in polymers and has used some of his funds to create a car collection for himself; his most recent addition, the Mercedes R171 roadster, was featured on this site back in February. Today, we finally got to see [...]

Visual DNA

Posted by Chief Oddball on Saturday, March 17th, 2007 in Randomness

Here’s a fun little web gadget.

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