Joe Wein’s blog

The Toshiba Gigashot GSC-R30 is my fourth video camera since I started filming for a hobby in 1990. It is compact, fairly lightweight and records hours of DVD-quality video and/or tens of thousands of digital pictures without any change of media. I bought it in early April 2006 (my previous camera, a Mini DV model [...]

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Last Saturday the hard disk in my notebook computer started making strange noises. It performed lengthy retries and eventually produced write errors from Windows. This is usually a sign that a drive is on it’s way out. Not a good way to start a relaxing weekend, I thought.
My notebook is a 6 year old [...]

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I finally got around to installing Wordpress on the server to write a blog. A previous attempt at using static HTML was too time-consuming. I’ll write more regularly now, mostly about issues related to spam, software, hardware and probably a little bit of politics. Enjoy!

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