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We recently got a second Pace HD DVR from Service Electric to go with our nifty new TV. The only problem is that HD content is big, and the 160GB drive in the Pace box offers a paltry 30 hours of HD content recording. Thanks to some helpful information by a Pace engineer on AVSForum and some parts from NewEgg, I’ve added quite a bit more space. Read on for the details.

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A few months ago I posted about my frustrations with iTunes. With a little motivation from my neighbor Ben across the street, I’ve liberated my music from iTunes and Apple DRM. Read on…

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OK, everyone has been bugging me to update the site and put up some new pics of the new dude. And everyone who has seen him in person says the pics up right now look nothing like him. So here are a few more pics which hopefully look like him (?) and some basic observations one week in to this new gig.

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Colin James McCouch was born at 7:23 PM after an awesome effort by Mom and a tiny bit of help from the vacuum cleaner thingy.

Colin is 21-1/2″ long, weighs 8 lb, 13 oz (on 8/13) and scored an 8-9 on his APGAR (his first ‘A’).

Mom and baby are doing great, and he’s having his first meal. Mom is looking forward to some lunch meat from the cafeteria platter.

More later. Time to spend some time with my family.

Hey, they have free Wi-Fi in the hospital room, so why shouldn’t I use it?

So this morning, 8/13, there was still no baby. Well, there’s a baby, but it’s still inside Audrey. It’s time to get it out. So here’s what’s going on.

Please note, this post (and/or subsequent ones if I break it up) are not going to be richly composed with my normal pithy wit (I know, that’s the best joke I’ve made yet). I’ll just be trying to keep up with what’s going on, while not ignoring my paternal duties (yikes… I have paternal duties!)

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iTunes = BAD. There’s just no other way to say it. But I sure wish I’d figured that out before it wrecked my music collection and ate up all my disk space. Fanboys should navigate away now…

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Using the ever-popular Google Maps to plan/review/measure a fun drive.

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Wow, I was right, it only took another weekend for me to finish all the network cabling and get this project checked off! Read on for a couple pics…

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