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We’re heading over to a community-wide Chili cook-off in a few minutes. Rather than trying to compete with the “most authentic” or “hotter than blazes” categories of chili, we decided to make a concoction that I can only categorize as … Continue reading →

Welcome to my the new WordPress-based CPUGuru Live Spaces blogsite. Microsoft is terminating their Live Spaces Blogging service and has brokered a deal with WordPress apparently to take up the torch re: our blogging needs. I had stopped blogging on … Continue reading →

After a long hiatus from blogging regularly (which I wholeheartedly blame on Twitter), I have decided to focus my efforts on another blog project. Henceforth, I will be blogging on the Ocean Bytes blog (http://www.oceanbytes.org) – a WordPress 3.0 blog … Continue reading →

Labview Tech Talk A couple of months back, we had Drew Pierce in-house to do a Tech Talk on National Instruments Labview product.  We recorded the talk and Drew has graciously allowed us to post it online.  It runs about … Continue reading →

Humanity +1 The world is suddenly looking a tad brighter than it has in the past few weeks.  Talk of doom and gloom and “these tough economic times” have been getting me down of late.  The reason, you may ask?  … Continue reading →

Antec MX-1 Actively Cooled External Hard Drive Enclosure The time to think about backing up your data is definitely not AFTER you’ve already lost it.  The typical data-loss scenario plays out time and time again – the user has had … Continue reading →

Razor MX650 Electric Motocross Bike We had an interesting addition from Santa last week – a Razor M650 Dirt Rocket.  We looked into the various electric scooter options from Razor and decided that an electric bike would probably be a … Continue reading →

Pumpkin Dip ala Tool Time It’s that time of the year where I get to enjoy my favorite pumpkin-based desserts.  For Christmas, we decided to whip up some Pumpkin Dip…which is a sweet pumpkin-based mixture that you dip out with … Continue reading →

Christmas Pleo Last Christmas I bought “Pleo the Dinosaur” for my son, and we’ve had a lot of fun with him.  Info on Pleo can be found on the Ugobe site http://www.pleoworld.com (which is apparently down for maintenance as I … Continue reading →

New XBox 360 Interface Look and Feel Below is part 3 of the video series my son and I shot when we upgraded our XBox 360 in preparation for the new Avatar-based interface.  We signed into XBox Live and were … Continue reading →