Windows Update woes
I have a work laptop that I don’t actually use that often. For security reasons, we can only VPN in from a company-controlled machine, though, so if I want to […]
September 2015
useful new Windows 10 feature
A better environment variable editor! Seriously, the environment variable interface has always bugged me. It hasn’t changed since, I think, Windows 95. Nice to see them finally getting around to […]
HiFiBerry DAC and Volumio setup
My HiFiBerry DAC arrived from Switzerland yesterday. (Amazing how fast something can get from Switzerland to NJ for only $11.) I took my Raspberry Pi out of the old case, […]
inbox zero and project review
On this weekend and last weekend, I managed to get a lot of general clean-up stuff done. I’ve got my personal GMail account at inbox zero. (And I got my […]
Picasso
I went to the Picasso sculpture exhibit at MoMA today. The New York Times gave it a very positive review. I thought it was pretty nifty. And it’s certainly… large. […]
playing with Volumio
I’ve made some progress with Volumio, and I’m having fun with it, so I thought I’d write a follow-up to my previous post. The DAC that I ordered from HiFiBerry […]
Fun with the Raspberry Pi
I ordered a Raspberry Pi kit earlier this week, and it showed up in the mail yesterday. I ordered this kit from Amazon. It’s a nicely-packaged kit, with the Pi, […]
Labor Day
As I posted a few days ago, I’ve been thinking about the way I listen to music a lot lately. I have a rough plan sketched out to consolidate a […]
thinking about music
Listening to music used to be pretty simple. I’d turn on the stereo, put a record on the turntable, and that was it. It’s gotten a lot more complicated now, […]