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So Washington Mutual dropped the interest rate on their savings accounts again. Seriously ... 0.01% interest? That's worse than Bank of America! If I put $1,000,000 in there, that'd get me, what, less than $10 a month? Etrade just dropped their rate to 2% APY, but I guess 3% was way too good to be true for long ( Read more... ) -
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There's something to be said for pervasive brand identity: when Google introduced online maps, they just called it Google Maps, and you have the same simple naming scheme for Yahoo Maps and MSN Live Maps ( Read more... ) -
Clinton's campaign: The Five Stages of Grief
A slightly amusing thought from the LA times blog (linked from electoral-vote.com): Hillary's campaign demise matches the classic five stages of grief. My take ( Read more... ) -
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Wondering how much electricity California is using at this very moment? See the CaISO System Status page. Right now it's 3AM and we're using 20,509 megawatts ( Read more... ) -
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Happy New Year!
And ... remember to register to vote if you've moved recently. California's registration cutoff for the February 5th primaries is January 22nd. -
The gender card
It would appear that Hillary Clinton is campaigning entirely on a platform of "hey look my last name is Clinton" and "I'm woman, hear me roar (in politically correct measured doses)." Lately, it's been more of the latter ( Read more... ) -
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
So I've been playing Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines for the past couple of days, and it's pretty fun. I'd been considering buying it for a few years now, but it just temporarily dropped into the impulse buy zone at $10 this week on Steam. It's an adventure/roleplaying game set in nighttime Los Angeles, where you play a newly inducted vampire ( Read more... ) -
Portal
Finished Portal! Really fun, but really short. I hope people start coming up with new levels ( Read more... ) -
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Three days until HL2 Episode 2 and Portal are released! I've been playing a fair amount of Team Fortress 2 in my limited spare time and it's been a blast. I'm getting tired of 2fort though, because the single chokepoint means everyone camps ( Read more... ) -
7950gt
I got a new graphics card: a nVidia 7950gt 256MB. Not 512MB, but the 256MB was $140 AR vs $240 for 512MB. At first, it locked up when booting into Windows and I was worried that it was a power draw issue, but it booted into Linux fine. Apparently it needed a motherboard driver update. Oblivion runs pretty nicely with settings maxed, though it still ( Read more... )