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How much is enough? Memory and Storage

ByObblogatory May 10, 2008

I remember buying my first portable pc by TwinHead. It was a 386 pc with about 16MB of RAM, and 80 MB hard disk. Yes, MB, not GB. Even then I had data storage problems that I haven’t adequately solved… I was always swapping floppies for my databack up. I even used to pop the…

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Desperate for WeightLoss? Drop that snack bar now!

ByObblogatory January 18, 2009

One of the things that surprises me about people’s food choices (including my own) is that people often make poor health food choices even though healthier choices are available, make better sense, and are affordable. Yesterday I went to MacDonald’s and order a set meal with a double fish burger. It didn’t taste that good…

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Bringing Back Baile on 6th Tone

ByObblogatory November 27, 2024January 17, 2025

Bringing Back Baile on 6th Tone. Nearly 50 years ago, Shen Jian got a job making Baile-brand accordions at the Shanghai Accordion Factory. The factory is long gone — closed during a round of state-owned enterprise consolidation in the early 2000s — and demand for accordions has shrunk, but Shen remains, running a factory on…

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DIY with kids: Always choose safety over form!

ByObblogatory April 18, 2009

A couple of days ago, I was looking at one of the sinks in the bathroom at school, and wondering if it would fall off the wall. You may laugh, but there have been dozens of reports in Taiwan of kitchen sinks falling off the wall for a variety of reasons. Of course, when the…

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Upgrade PC

ByObblogatory December 10, 2023

I’ve been twiddling my thumbs on this for more than 2 years. No idea about parts nowadays. The market is changing so fast. I can’t even rely on the PC lady downstairs to advise me on a self-build. Here’s another one I specced out.

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Someone’s phone got hacked!

ByObblogatory April 16, 2024

Sure. No problem… but can you lend me 100k first? Scammers! I should have said yes. Got the bank details and reported the mule accounts!

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