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• Qwest Broadband and Apple “Home Sharing”

  March 20, 2011 in Uncategorized

  For many who are trudging through the Internet about iTunes, iPad, AppleTV and Home Sharing of digital media over your home network: At least as far as Qwest and its Actiontec modem/router is concerned, forget it. The Actiontec does not support Bonjour, Apple’s name for the IGMP protocol, which is required for Home Sharing on [...]

• The next time a stranger offers to sell you a magical lamp, might one suggest wondering why the strange person is willing to part with it?

  September 27, 2010 in Uncategorized

  Posted via email from sagronek

• From my fortune cookie after take-out from the “Bamboo House”: “A calm sea does not make a skilled sailor.”

  April 15, 2010 in Uncategorized

  Posted via email from splats

• One of These Things is Not Like the Others. The bottom red line has fallen and can’t get up.

  March 25, 2010 in Uncategorized

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• Vintage Detroit ‘mobiles…

  March 9, 2010 in Uncategorized

  I had one o’ these as a kid in the 70′s! (and a 56 chevy later). They’d only accelerate if I asked ‘em to! 1956 Ford Fairlane Victoria …and parents of the kid down the street had one of these. We’d get in it, put it into gear and press the “Start” button and the [...]

• Amazon.com: Logitech Squeezebox Duet Wi-Fi Internet Radio: Electronics

  March 8, 2010 in Uncategorized

  via amazon.com Looks like a perfect choice for your set-up. The box would be in the closet, wired to the aux input of your receiver., and the Controller would then operate the music from anywhere in the house. Wish I had that controller for my syste. Posted via web from splats

• Atlas Rocket Breaks the Sound Barrier

  February 28, 2010 in Uncategorized

  Download now or watch on posterous Atlas_640.m4v (11878 KB) Feb. 11, 2010, the Atlas rocket carried a satellite to orbit and provided a show on the way up by sending visible shock waves though a cloud layer. Watch for the sun-dog on the right, and how the shock waves disturb the cloud layer so that [...]

• Little Birds All in a Row

  February 27, 2010 in Uncategorized

  Mourning dove settling in, off my pack patio. Posted via email from splats

• Spring

  February 26, 2010 in Uncategorized

  See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via web from splats

• Spring

  February 26, 2010 in Uncategorized

  See and download the full gallery on posterous Posted via web from splats