Much Ado About Everything

I predict that next month you will be able to walk into a store and buy a PS3 without too much trouble.

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Well, this has been one crazy month (and a half). I ended up joining hordes of North Americans and contributed more than my fair share towards Christmas and Boxing Day sales. I’ll be paying interest for a few months to come, so that I can (could) enjoy new stuff during my time off in December (of which I had a fair amount of).

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Here in Canada, Future Shop in Metrotown, Burnaby got the 46″ Sharp LCD TV, 46D62U yesterday. Not even a price sticker is up on it, but I tested a passing employee and he mentioned he believes it’s $3499 and it’s a great bargain – I was impressed he knew about it. But it’d be hard [...]

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Today I was randomly reading Head-Fi, which I do extremely rarely (a few times a year at most) and I ran into some interesting new information. Well, it probably isn’t as much new to others as it’s to me, but this is my webblog after all, so news it is. Anyhow, it seems that a lot of people use or are advocating the use of RockBox firmware for iPods. What I find interesting is not that, but one of the alleged reasons for using RockBox – namely, hiss that can be heard when using iPod original firmware. The other reason – allegedly better sound quality – is another puzzle that is worth exploring.

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