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Is anyone surprised that "pecan pie" has pecans in it? Are people with allergies that brain-dead that they'd buy "pecan pie" thinking it's safe to eat simply because it doesn't list pecans on the ingredients list?
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I finally decided to bite the bullet and bought a real NAS for use at home. I decided on the QNAP TS-219P for a number of reasons I'll discuss in the post. Also, I have plenty of screenshots showing the QNAP UI and a couple simple benchmarks comparing the performance to a USB disk attached to an Airport Extreme.

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It's been a while since I posted, but today, I had to figure-out how to make the OS X version of Safari stop opening PDF files inside the browser since that's one of my pet peeves.
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This awesome site has the complete audio of the original moon landing along with lots of interactive goodies.
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• Weed eaters are one of my top ten annoying sounds possible on the planet... #
• Anyone else get tired of people who follow you, (for obvious marketing purposes) but obviously don't read anything you type? Gonna unfollow! #
• Wow Florida style rain here in Colorado! http://twitpic.com/8boqf #
• Imaging my new used Series 2 TiVo drive to a new 320GB. Finally gonna retire the trusty Series 1 after 7 years. http://twitpic.com/8ezte #
• Argh... I've got about 10 books here on Amazon that I'm interested in and would buy for the Kindle if the price of the reader was reasonable #
• Crazy thought but will Michael Jackson be another Elvis where people think it's a hoax and see him at gas stations and other places? #
• New TiVo drive is installed and I'm bringing it up now. Felt odd to remove my Series 1 after 8 years. http://twitpic.com/8klxm #
• Awesome weather in CO today and no signs of the daily storms... yet. http://twitpic.com/8levo #
• RT @ freeiphoneapps RIP Billy Mays. He was the only human that was allowed to speak entirely in CAPS LOCK. #
• hahaha Sneak 80oz of beer into concerts and sporting events in the Beer Belly http://bit.ly/seEoA #
• RT @OrlandoUpdates: PHOTO UPDATE: Gaylord Palms (this place is incredible; you have to see it if you haven't already!) http://ow.ly/g0QY #
• MAKE Controller & I/O board via @YoTwits http://bit.ly/kjPcc #
• I hate waiting to get a haircut. 25 minutes down the drain. #
• Beer holster is perfect for 4th of July, BBQ, or whatever. Funny idea. http://bit.ly/YwuCh #
• Just put 6GB in my Penryn Macbook Pro. Did hardcore geek-fu and hacked the SPD EEPROM on one of the sticks cuz Apple doesn't handle diff. #
• Awwww yeah. Plenty of room for running a VM, FireFox, and other goodies now on the MBP! http://twitpic.com/93nx5 #
• Lol for being "illegal" I can count at least 10 diff spots shooting aerial fireworks just looking out bedroom window. #

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Time for a couple weeks of real living, away from the other part of life known as work...
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This cool projects aims to take the various FPGA-based arcade platforms and run them on a common piece of hardware, thus letting you play many games and platforms without having tons of equipment sitting around.
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Apparently, some people like their cars to have a split personality, as this late-model Honda CRV shows.
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I found a new site last night that lured me in with low prices on nice items. However, after watching the site overnight, I can see that I will never bother bidding on any of these auctions, but there's a great profit-generating machine behind these auctions you'll be amazed to see.
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Have you ever thought about how amazing it was when the Apollo space missions actually took someone to the moon considering that they didn't have the fancy technology we have today? This book recounts the design and use of the on-board Apollo digital computers.
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