Archive for January, 2005

Monday, January 31st, 2005Monday, January 31st, 2005

Costa Rica

I finally (only a month or so later) got around to putting up pictures from our Costa Rica trip in December.
So, if you are really bored, you can check out the jungle, monkeys, beach and all the other groovy stuff in Costa Rica.
http://www.shawnhogan.com/gallery/costa-rica-2004

Tuesday, January 25th, 2005Tuesday, January 25th, 2005

Still A Respectable Score

Not as good as my 5 under par score, but I played frisbee golf today (for the first time since that score), and I ended up 3 under par. Still better than average… Plus I’m sick, so I’ll use that as an excuse.
The worst part is that I was 5 under for awhile, […]

Wednesday, January 12th, 2005Wednesday, January 12th, 2005

Project Lightspeed - 25Mbit DSL

This news is 2 months old, but it’s the first I heard about it. SBC Communications (my local provider here in San Diego), decided to ramp up ADSL2+ deployment, and are going to deploy about 50,000 miles of fiber to everyone’s CO. Then use ADSL2+ technology to bring 25Mbit connectivity to the home […]

Monday, January 10th, 2005Monday, January 10th, 2005

9 + 15% = 35?

Apple put out a minor speed-bump on their G5 Xserve machines (they went from 2.0 Ghz to 2.3 Ghz and nothing else in the system or architecture changed).
The dual 2.0 Xserve could yield 9 gigaflops of raw processing power (which is really fast to begin with). The dual 2.3 Ghz Xserve yields 35 gigaflops […]

CES Show Brings New Car Audio Stuff

I was waiting for this year’s CES show to see what is available for a car stereo/navigation system for my new car.
It looks like there are some cool new things this year…
Realtime Traffic Map
Alpine and Pioneer have navigation systems that overlay realtime traffic data on your navigation map (data includes traffic speeds, accidents, etc.) and […]

Sunday, January 9th, 2005Sunday, January 9th, 2005

Have Had The RAZR V3 For Awhile Now

Okay, I take back my one complaint about the RAZR from this post. The contact manager does not require an entry for every phone number, it just works like that by default. You can change the settings to display by Primary Contact instead.
I also noticed something else cool… when I’m using the phone […]