Mark Denovich

If you've got some time to kill take this vocabulary test: http://www.eskimo.com/~miyaguch/schmies.html My score: 158

I bought a Gyration Ultra GT compact wireless keyboard and mouse about 2 weeks ago. It looked like the perfect solution for controling my HTPC from my couch. Problem was that I could not get the…

Finally, I get to add another entry under the motorcycle blog category. We had a record high of 78F yesterday in Pittsburgh. On the way home from work it was obvious I had to get out on the bike. The…

After another 7 hours of tweaking, I have the DVD player working on my HTPC. Sure it worked pretty much from the get-go, but it wasn't as good as it could be. I now have videophile grade DVD…

By chance I happened to be in the right place to see something... well interesting on the way home. Just before the Squirrel Hill tunnel (I376E), there was a freshly run-over turkey... and ten feet…

The Rodenator Pro rodent elimination system is yet another personal invention from my youth that I have seen turned into a commerical product. I didn't have a handy source of 02, but did have…

I started ripping my CD collection to disk. I'm using EAC (Exact Audio Copy) to do the extraction and FLAC to do the compression. The combo seems like the current way to go for anal-rententive…

You're Germany! You have a really ugly past, one that defies description.  This gives you tremendous guilt, but you've coped with it and flourished into an awfully good person,…

Now that I had a way to easily upload photos to my gallery, the next logical step was to have the most recent photos automatically appear in the side column of my blog. What I thought would be the…

Yesterday I got my new Treo 600 pda + camera + phone. (I'll write more about it later) It's particularly easy to email photos taken with the phone. So I wrote a small script in Perl (gasp)…