Hollyman’s World blog

Subject says it all. Craigslist kind of freaks me out. It’s truly amazing how quickly you can sell or get rid of things. I have either sold or given way 6 postings on craigslist so far. All happened within hours of the posting.
That’s pretty amazing compared to the days long past [...]

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Update Dec 9, 2008: I thought I would post one more recent update to this thread, as it seems to be fairly popular with visits and there are still many posts on the DirecTV forums asking about external drives. My setup has been flawless so far. The drive stays cool to the touch, [...]

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We have all heard about the net-neutrality debate: consumers want all they can eat and service providers want to limit what we use. Why not discuss the ways that both can be happy at the same time? It reminds me of an old Political Science professor that lived and breathed the “win-win” situation.
Just [...]

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I received my Lexar ExpressCard 16GB SSD card last week. Unfortunately, my excitement was suppressed when I was finally able to test it with Parallels. For a refresher, my plan was to move my Windows XP parallels image off my MacBook Pro and onto the SSD card. This was to save [...]

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