Daily-Weekly Finds

Iomega may have saved my TW DVR…  Offers new drive for Expansion. (via Engadget)

16 sites for web site design inspiration (via TechTool Blog)

Obviously the new iPhone is delicious, I wrote about that here a month ago. My biggest concern though remains COVERAGE, holly coverage batman, the 3G network is worse than the Edge network which is already about 50% (by my estimation) as good as Verizon.  Hold me, I’m scared.

Someone please tell Voodoo/HP that trying to knock of the Mac Pro, just isn’t cool.  You can do better than that no?  (It is kinda sexy though).

Apple files a patent for solar sells on portable devices… WTF?  I’ve had portable calculator driven by solar cells for many many years.

Nvidia Steps up for Call of Duty  PC Players.   WTF?  Console’s have had the maps for a month now.

Dell studio Line…  OK, let’s take the XPS line, paint them BLACK and call them the Studio Line.   These notebooks are OK, but damn, is that the best you can do?

Understand the impact of High Item counts in Exchange.

Blogger Gang Signs:

original here

Those fine folks at Insomniac are opening an office in the East.

Another Example of why Best Buy Sucks

Change the Signal meter on your Blackberry to the actual DB strength…  [via One Mans Blog]

Fedora 9 on a thumb drive.

Cringlely is spot on when it comes to analysts.

I originally was going to read Corey’s book Little Brother.  But now I’m so sick and tired of seeing a blog post about it DAILY on Boing Boing that I’m not going to read it.   (great, now I’ve given it another mention).

Google Health is live…   Why not, the already know everything else about you why not your health too?

So some things do last forever…  A light bulb that’s been burning for 107 years.

A useful tech note for troubleshooting common connectivity problems with SQL Server 2005 and Analysis Services.  Did it answer my question?  Nope, apparently my problem isn’t common, but it did lead me down the path to get things to work, although I’m certain it’s not set up properly.

Office Mac 2008 SP1 out today…  Allegedly includes VBA again.. [via Gizmodo]…  I hope it has the features that we paid for when we upgraded

A combine Demolition Derby, something I must attend someday.

The Day the Music Died… Yep, that’s about my take as well.

Ouch, it sucks to be Tim (5 year old, LCD TV and Wii after only one day)

Yesterdays Dilbert is spooky close to recent BI discussion in an office nearby.

 More Exchange Documentation Updates
* Understanding Client Throttling, Windows ActiveSync Policies, etc.

Download Cory Doctrorow’s book Little Brother for Free.  Now how to get this to my iPhone…

Engadget’s review of the IdeaPad U110, or, “How do dick up a perfectly good laptop by using a crappy keyboard”.

Troubleshooting Outlook RPC dialog boxes – revisited because you can never have enough info on the beast that is Exchange…

Visigami, image search and screen saver.

Xobni is no longer beta, perhaps it’s less broken.  Don’t get me wrong, I like Xobni and what it’s trying to do.  But based on experience with a bunch of other Outlook integrated products, let’s just say I’m skeptical that it can really do what it says it can with anything other than a modest mailbox.

(Read if your a heavy mail/Outlook user, expect this to jack up your Outlook).