Archive for March, 2009
IT Dinner: Theme = Tea
In: Tea
30 Mar 2009Another successful IT dinner – though there were some who doubted we could pull it off. The theme of tea was a bit daunting but everything came together.
Location was Billie’s place this time and we had all the IT geeks plus Jillian, Jenny, and Roan.
Drinks and appetizers by Brian included a cocktail with Earl Grey [...]
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- Tags: it dinner, Tea
Another Use for Skype: Baby Monitor
In: Good Stuff
30 Mar 2009In our case, two macbooks + skype = one fancy schmancy baby monitor for sleeping Ola.
Backup Drives
In: Geek Goods
27 Mar 2009We’re often asked for tips on backing up personal computers and/or external storage. Our reccommendation lately has been the Western Digital Passport external drives. They come in a variety of volumes, though the 320GB and 500GB seem to be the sweet spot of maximized affordability and funtionallity. The Passports are BUS-powered USB 2.0 drives, so [...]
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- Tags: passport, Review
Warehouse Sale List for March 27
In: Food
27 Mar 2009At 11am the line was already out the door!
This week’s BIG SPECIAL is a LIMITED offering from Zingerman’s Coffee Company. Allen & Steve of the Coffee Company have really been gracious in offering us 21 lbs of something special…you’ll have to come see what it’s all about.
And we’ve got a special Mail Order creation we’re [...]
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- Tags: warehouse
Giant Pocky!
In: Food
25 Mar 2009
Kim at Bakehouse always has the best treats at her desk (ask, don’t take!). Today she has giant Pocky, the Japanese chocolate-covered biscuit stick. I’ve only seen the small, stirrer stick sized Pocky before. Dig it.
VirtualBox Bests Parallels
In: Geek Finds| Review
25 Mar 2009A few weeks ago my Parallels stopped working. I’d launch the app and immediately be told it was not responding and to force quit. I restored Parallels (files, prefs, .hdd) from backup, but no dice. I had been unhappy with Parallels for a while – it was a resource hog, starting the VM and booting [...]
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- Tags: mac, virtualization, windows
Zingerman’s Warehouse Sale Alert for Friday, March 20
In: Food
20 Mar 2009Just got today’s list!
Thanks for coming last week to our first Warehouse Sale! The second week promises to be something special as well.
Lots of cheeses this time around (relatively).
Oh yeah, and a free gingerbread coffeecake to everyone that stops in!
Here’s what we’ve got for this Friday, March 20th.
English Farmhouse Cheddar – C-EFC – reg. $38/lb, [...]
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Font School
In: Geek Finds| News
19 Mar 2009The Apple Blog has spent this week poising a very nice series on fonts in OS X. Monday was the 101 introduction, subsequent topics included management, troubleshooting, and additional resources. It was nice to see the positive reviews & usage for Linotype FontExplorer X, the free font manager we’ve been using in the ZCoB. Font [...]
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- Tags: fonts, mac
Color Your MacBook
In: Geek Goods
15 Mar 2009We’re fans of the see-thru, hard cases by Speck for the MacBooks; we’ve purchased several for MacBooks in the ZCoB. The MacBook case is plastic, fairly sturdy but not as tough as the aluminium MacBook Pro cases. The hard covers by Speck add another layer of protection, preventing chips, cracks, and scratches. Speck’s cases are [...]
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- Tags: apple, favorites, mac
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