tag:thestormglass.com,2014:/feedDan Pavlides2015-12-07T16:39:40-08:00Dan Pavlideshttp://thestormglass.comSvbtle.comtag:thestormglass.com,2014:Post/notamacpro2015-12-07T16:39:40-08:002015-12-07T16:39:40-08:00NotAMacPro<p>This is a slightly edited re-post of a retrospective build log I made on the small but excellent <a href="http://smallformfactor.net/forum/" rel="nofollow">SmallFormFactor.net</a> forum.</p>
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<p>I mentioned <a href="https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/why-are-you-interested-in-sff.95/page-3#post-4930" rel="nofollow">here</a> that about 15 years ago, I ditched PC’s and Windows and switched to the Mac (a 12” iBook!) and OS X as my every day driver, I also switched to consoles for gaming.</p>
<p>At PAX 2014 I was totally overwhelmed to see just how much had changed in the world of PC’s during my self-imposed exile. Probably the most striking change was quality - no longer the realm of mostly ugly beige and only sometimes black boxes, grey power supplies, messy cables and worst of all loud rigs.</p>
<p>Reinvigorated, I embarked on an adventure of investigation to build a gaming rig as an alternative to the Xbox One. My last PC was built in an <a href="http://www8.pcmag.com/media/images/77090-antec-aria.jpg" rel="nofollow">Antec Aria</a> and it was extremely…snug, I had some ‘SFF’ heritage to build off and intended to go back down that path.</p>
<p>The goals I set for the build were:</p>
<ul>
<li>Handle any game I could throw at it, at 1080p for gaming on a TV.</li>
<li>Living room level quiet</li>
<li>ITX preferred/can’t take up too much room</li>
<li>Component flexibility, leaving options open for water-cooling or full size GPU/PSU.</li>
<li>If it was going to be in the living room (and being a Mac user), it couldn’t be ugly.</li>
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<p><em>Enough babbling…onto the parts list!</em></p>
<p>Case: BitFenix Prodigy Mini-ITX White<br>
<img src="http://i.imgur.com/XtTJNfn.jpg" alt=""></p>
<p>Case add-ons: Cat (Dax), Window side panel, Black Mesh front panel with red trim</p>
<p>PSU: Corsair AX760i<br>
Motherboard: MSI Z97I Gaming AC mITX<br>
CPU: Intel Core i5 4960K (OC: 4.0Ghz)<br>
Disk: Crucial MX100 512GB<br>
RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury 2x8GB 1866Mhz DDR3 - Black (OC: 2133Mhz)<br>
GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 970 Gaming 4G</p>
<p>Cooling:<br>
Corsair Hydro H100i<br>
Corsair SP120 Red LED x2<br>
Corsair AF140 Quiet Edition<br>
Corsair AF12 Quiet Edition White LED x2<br>
Corsair Commander Mini</p>
<p>Other stuff:<br>
Corsair K65 RGB Keyboard<br>
Corsair Sabre RGB Laser<br>
CableMod C-Series AXi Cable Kit Black/White<br>
Black with white LED <a href="http://www.frozencpu.com/products/8697/ele-373/White_Illuminated_Vandal_Resistant_Latching_Switch_-_22mm_-_Black_Housing_-_Ring_Illumination.html?tl=g4" rel="nofollow">replacement power button</a> that seemingly <em>everyone</em> uses.</p>
<p>And now, some photos:</p>
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<p>H100i and AX760i from Amazon, Dax doing border import inspection.</p>
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<p> Back in my day, PSU’s came in cardboard boxes and where all the same shade of grey. Now they come in pretend velvet bags! </p>
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<p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/EJSkgXo.jpg" alt=""></p>
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<p>My wife approves.</p>
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<p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/YrGnWbq.jpg" alt=""></p>
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<p>Dax - Chief PC Build Operations Officer</p>
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<p>The Prodigy PSU cage is pretty snug for a beefy unit like the AX760i</p>
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<p>This revision of the case has a more sensible cutout in the cage than the original…</p>
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<p>All my pre-purchase measurements checked out. AF140 exhaust fit with a couple of mm to spare from the rad and hoses.</p>
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<p>What I <em>didn’t</em> account for was the length of the hoses. Ideally I would have mounted the rad with the hoses at the front…but the front intake AF120’s ended up being a little too thick. Thankfully it wasn’t a build-ending-event.</p>
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<p>Black heat spreaders on the Kingston RAM were a good match. Also a little preview of the replacement PSU cables :)</p>
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<p>Had to drill the existing cutaway out a little to fit the back of the new power switch though the inside panel. I ended up swapping the original side panel with the vented side panel with no switches or ports for aesthetics and one less bunch of cables to run inside the case. I made the mistake of thinking I’d be able to remove the switch after the hole was drilled to solder on the wires…I was mistaken. Many fingers were burnt in the attachment of these wires.</p>
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<p>Most of the hardware installed, this was the moment I realised the slightly-smaller-than-I-realised window was going to be totally consumed by the GTX 970’s dual-fans.</p>
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<p>Let the cabling begin! Closer look at the CaseMod cable replacements…summary: really nice.</p>
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<p>It lives!…with dummied in cables</p>
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<p>After the first few months of running with the GTX 970 fans taking up the whole side window, I figured I wanted to actually <strong>see</strong> more of the stuff inside the case and that the card would run cooler with the vented panel right next to it anyway….so…I sorta pulled all the cables out to start over.</p>
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<p>Swapped the side panels around and convinced myself that I’d never actually be happy with the cabling, so this is ‘done’.</p>
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<p><strong>Much</strong> better view from this side of the video card!</p>
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<p>Inside of the case runs quite cool even under load, so using interior air exhausting though the rad works really well…looks good too :cool:</p>
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<p>Front panel illumination looks cool though the mesh, exactly the effect I was going for.</p>
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<p>Finished product.</p>
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<p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/tXimWXQ.jpg" alt=""></p>
<p>That’s a wrap! The Prodigy is a great, if a little big, mITX case if you’re looking to dip (or re-dip) a toe into the PC building waters. It’s flexibility is it’s strength, giving you plenty of options for expansion and custom water-cooling if you’re that way inclined.</p>
<p>I’d probably classify this as a semi-SFF build, living in a small apartment with limited space and 2 gamers (and 2 TV’s…and 2 Xbox’s…you get the idea) it’s worked out to be slightly bigger than I was after. Planning has started on squishing this build into the positively petite <a href="http://www.raijintek.com/en/products_detail.php?ProductID=17" rel="nofollow">Raijintek Metis</a>. </p>
<p>Dan</p>
tag:thestormglass.com,2014:Post/coffee-for-douchebags2015-01-15T06:39:36-08:002015-01-15T06:39:36-08:00Coffee for douchebags.<p>I freely admit I’m one of ‘those people’. </p>
<p>I’d rather not have coffee than suffer a bad cup. I will search for, try, and pour out countless cups in search of something great. </p>
<p>Buying beans is a carefully considered adventure that often takes me to wooden-floored, brick-walled roasting houses full of people with beards and thick rimmed glasses to find exactly the right bean for the job.</p>
<p>If I’m going to expend that much effort finding the right roaster with the right beans, I have to have a better than average grinder. Every bean is different, every roast has its own setting which needs to be ground meticulously and deliberately to the right coarseness. Next is the process of precise weighing. </p>
<p>You need the right amount of ground coffee to make the perfect cup. Which means you need a scale that’s accurate to the gram, just like a drug dealer! </p>
<p>Once you have the right bean, grind and amount of (precisely weighed) coffee, it’s time to pile it all into a small metal basket and exert the exact amount of tamping force needed to prepare the grinds for extraction. </p>
<p>Then there’s the machine.</p>
<p>The centrepiece of any coffee geek’s setup, picking the right machine is very personal and highly complicated.<br>
Completely manual?<br><br>
Semi-Auto?<br><br>
Steam wand?<br><br>
What kind of pump?<br><br>
How much pressure is said pump capable of?<br><br>
How does it heat the water?<br><br>
How accurate is the heater?<br><br>
How much does the heat fluctuate?<br><br>
How do you clean it? </p>
<p>The list goes on for days - <a href="https://www.google.com.au/search?q=manual+coffee+machine&client=safari&rls=en&biw=1435&bih=795&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=Mo6wVPCIH4W8mQXJvYKIBA&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ%22" rel="nofollow">there</a> <a href="https://www.google.com.au/search?q=stove+top+coffee+machine&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=N5GwVJDDNKLUmgXgwIKACA&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1435&bih=795" rel="nofollow">are</a> <a href="https://www.google.com.au/search?q=french+press+coffee+machine&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=qpGwVJOjLcLdmAWoj4CYBA&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1435&bih=795" rel="nofollow">dozens</a> of <a href="https://www.google.com.au/search?q=cold+drip+coffee+machine&client=safari&rls=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=BZKwVLqzEuHAmAXAyILAAQ&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAQ&biw=1435&bih=795" rel="nofollow">ways</a> to get water flowing though ground coffee. All of which can result in an excellent cup if the right amount of effort is exerted.</p>
<p>Having said all that, you clearly see why for the longest time I’ve written off Nespresso as coffee for fakers. People who like coffee but don’t ‘get’ coffee. </p>
<p>Like me. <em>ahem</em></p>
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<p>There is no possible way pre-ground coffee in a metal capsule can be better than a freshly ground, specifically roasted, weighed and made with love cup. Just nope. </p>
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<p>I convinced myself that this was a fact and made a classic rookie mistake. I’ve turned into a grumpy stuck-in-my-ways-old-man. So utterly convinced that I could make a better coffee than one of them new fanged machines, I robbed myself of the very thing I was after all along.</p>
<p>Here’s how it happened: My newly wedded wife and I were staying in a hotel for a couple of nights; we’d had an early start and a busy day with no time to stop, so I missed my morning hit and was completely de-caffeinated/borderline postal. It was late and all my usual, reliable cafes were done for the day. I was faced with one heck of a first world problem; wait it out and be divorced a day after getting married or find something, anything to put my inner junkie back in his box.</p>
<p>After a detailed risk analysis, I decided go without. Until…we passed the Nespresso store at Emporium Melbourne. The wafting aroma of freshly brewed espresso was too tempting a lure not to at least <em>see</em> what was going on. What a perfect opportunity to exercise my <a href="http://www.nocturnar.com/imagenes/ha-ha-nelson-laugh-at-nelson-simsons-taringanet.jpg" rel="nofollow">Nelson</a> skills! </p>
<p>We spent about 2 mins poking around the U-shaped kitchen counter setup just inside the door which was completely adorned with all the latest machines. </p>
<p>Almost immediately, I caught myself not poking fun but <em>admiring</em>. Each machine was geared to a level of commitment. Specifically: style, price and degrees of automation. </p>
<p>Of the 6 types of machines only one is completely automatic, one with a built in steam wand, one with the ‘Areoccino’ milk frothing machine attached, and the rest with the Areoccino included in a bundle or just the machine itself.</p>
<p>What was becoming clear rapidly was that everyone in the store had been fooled by clever marketing of crappy, but admittedly good looking machines. Convincing themselves to drink sub-standard but admittedly really great smelling coffee. </p>
<p>Almost as if someone was writing a script about how your initial Nespresso shopping experience should go, and executing it in real time on me - one of the boutique’s friendly staff, Sarah, asked if we’d like to try a free cup. Not one to shy away from a challenge, I agreed and Sarah choose the ‘fairly strong’ Arpeggio. </p>
<p>‘Would you like milk?’<br>
<em>looks Sarah right in the eye</em><br>
‘No milk, then.’</p>
<p>It might have been my low expectations, or maybe that I was 24-hours dry, whatever the reason, I was stunned. Not just ‘machine coffee’. Good coffee. Very good coffee. </p>
<p>The entire process took 40 seconds. No grinding, no weighing, no tamping - insert capsule, push button, coffee.</p>
<p>You would think after all this I would be an instant convert. You’d be wrong.</p>
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<p>Total fluke.</p>
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<p>Sarah spent another 15 very patient minutes answering with ease all the curly questions I could throw at her. She suggested three machines that would fit our consumption pattern, gave us a brochure and sent us on our way.</p>
<p>Less than 48 hours later, we went back to check if it really was a fluke. Annnnnnd it wasn’t. We walked out with a bright orange Inissia, Aeroccino, recycling container and 166 capsules for $294 or 166x 56c coffees and a free coffee machine. Thanks, Sarah.</p>
<p>One of the reasons people who really like coffee go through all the effort they do (knowingly or not) is to remove all the things they can’t control: a barista having a bad day, crap beans, crap milk, water so hot it seems like it came out of a volcano - whatever. There are a bunch of variables that you can eliminate by controlling more of the process. </p>
<p>The thing I was chasing was consistency: insert capsule, push button, coffee. That’s a gloriously simple, consistent process. Each capsule is calculated, each time you push the button a calculated amount of coffee appears in your cup. Coffee made by science, bitch.</p>
<p>As time has worn on I’ve been back to the Nespresso store a handful of times to top up on capsules. Last time I [tweeted]:(<a href="https://twitter.com/zillatron/status/553447863070388225):" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/zillatron/status/553447863070388225):</a></p>
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<p>Buying coffee at the Nespresso store in the super douche member section with the magic self serve registers is actually really great. ?☕️</p>
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<p>I quipped (before we bought one) that the member section was ridiculous and I was 100% wrong. It’s brilliant. You don’t have to line up with the noobs, it’s fast and does away with typical shopping barriers to the point of magic. Walk in, put capsules in bag, insert bag into magic register, pay, coffee.</p>
<p>I can’t speak for every store or every staff member, but the <strong>idea</strong> is right; a streamlined, well thought out experience <em>and</em> the product is good. </p>
<p>Don’t be an exclusive super douche like me, and you too can almost have a Star Trek replicator that makes low friction consistent coffee from the future.</p>
tag:thestormglass.com,2014:Post/its-a-feature-not-a-product-iwatch2014-09-06T20:53:07-07:002014-09-06T20:53:07-07:00It's a feature, not a product.<p>There’s been a heap of chatter recently about what Apple’s new iThing might be, the noise around this has gotten even louder since Apple started inviting people to a typically mysterious press event.</p>
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<p>Naturally my inner fanboi is gunning for iPhone+some new iThing, but if that iThing actually ends up being an iWatch the question in my mind is: How is that useful?</p>
<p>It’s probably a mistake to categorize whatever the new thing is as a watch. It might actually end up being called iWatch but just like the iPhone, I really believe the name is just a label.</p>
<p>In the case of the iPhone, what’s become clearer and clearer over time is while it’s sold as a smartphone the iPhone’s primary reason to exist is that it’s a pocket sized, Internet connected computer you can take pretty much anywhere. ‘Phone’ is an app, a feature. The iPod functionally was renamed ‘Music’, a feature. Each app (pre-installed or downloaded) serves as a feature plug-in for the powerful and portable computer that happens to have traditional phone functionality built-in.</p>
<p>I’d go as far as saying the iPhone is actually a really small iPad. Consider this line up: <br>
iPad Air (Wi-Fi) / iPad Air (Cellular), iPad mini (Wi-Fi) / iPad mini (Cellular), <br>
iPad nano (Wi-Fi) / iPad nano (Cellular).</p>
<p>In this case, iPod touch = iPad nano (Wi-Fi) and iPhone = iPad nano (Cellular)</p>
<p>The size of the device or maybe more specifically the how you carry it around (big bag vs small bag vs pocket), in some ways defines how it fits into your life. When the iPad was announced, a lot of people called it ‘a big iPod touch’, I disagreed at the time purely because the use case is different but it’s a pretty accurate assessment if you consider iPad, iPhone and iPod touch as just models of the same device. </p>
<p>I’d imagine if the iPhone 6 ends up with various sized screens (6: bigger and smaller, 6C: current 5S in new plastic colours) that these will neatly fill the size gaps between a iPad mini and iPod touch. </p>
<p>The point being, calling the iPhone ‘iPhone’ was great because there was existing categories in the public’s collective minds about what a ‘phone’ is and how it fits into your life. But take a step back from the marketing and you see a broader strategy of reusing and adapting good ideas to a bunch of different situations. </p>
<p>So when (optimism) iWatch is announced and it’s actually called iWatch, you and most others will know before you even see it that this thing goes on your wrist, and at a glance, can tell you the time. That’s not a new idea but it’s an easy idea to accept. In this case though the watch is a feature, not the product.</p>
<p>I’m 100% sure that nobody will guess everything this thing will do, but in broad strokes these are my prognostications:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>There will be 6 watch faces included and it’ll be widely criticised as inadequate. There will be an enormous market for 3rd party watch faces downloadable from he app store, a lot of them will be ugly. </p></li>
<li><p>It augments your iPhone. Upgrades to notification centre and more granular notification controls in iOS 8 will let you selectively send whatever you decide is useful to your wrist. iMessage, map directions, now playing info, calendar notifications, geolocation alerts all seem like things that would be useful to glance at without the need for much interaction.</p></li>
<li><p>More sensors. Those pedometer/health band things are super popular for a reason. Now you only need one and it automagiclly gives more inputs into Health (iOS 8). How many M7 chips has Apple made since it was announced? That’s some serious scale-benefit-head start action.</p></li>
<li><p>Bluetooth only. The changes to bluetooth pairing and particularly how tethering works means this is now trivial. It also means, no room taken up for wifi chips and more space for battery. If you already have your iPhone/iPad/Mac, you always have a way to stay connected.</p></li>
<li><p>No onscreen keyboard. In fact I’d go as far as saying that interaction with the screen will be buttons and swipes only. The iOS 8 version of the iMessage app will be able to send audio clips with a tap-hold-swipe gesture, that also makes sense for a tiny screen.</p></li>
<li><p>It’s mostly useless without your iPhone. I can’t actually think of a lot of ways to use a device like this without a partner/parent device, but I feel like that’s the point. Cheap and functional (and yes, good looking), but not critical. </p></li>
<li><p>What about NFC? If you already store your credit card details in iCloud keychain, what’s stopping you from using your wrist mounted NFC capable device to pay for things? That might be a step too far for version 1, but it seems like the rest of the pieces are already or very nearly there.</p></li>
<li><p>HomeKit is now a thing. Chances are you either have your iPhone in your pocket or are in range of a Bluetooth connection when you’re home. From a convenience standpoint, simple wrist mounted control is only beaten by Star Trek level voice control…sorry Siri.</p></li>
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<p>That’s a lot of not-outside-the-realms-of-possibility-today stuff that’s begging to be crammed into a good looking watch sized bit of high-technology.</p>
<p>A watch is only a very small part of iWatch*.</p>
<p>*feel free to point and laugh if I’m wrong or send messages of adoration if I’m right.</p>
tag:thestormglass.com,2014:Post/ipod-hifi-2point02014-08-27T06:31:43-07:002014-08-27T06:31:43-07:00iPod HiFi 2.0<p>The day the iPod HiFi was released I was totally convinced Apple had solved a problem that had plagued all of my previous non-traditional-hifi purchases: crap quality.</p>
<p>I admit I couldn’t see the point of batteries - It’s heavy and not really portable, so why bother with batteries or precious keynote seconds talking about portability? I believe this set the wrong tone for a product that really lived up to the other half of the marketing story: room filling sound.</p>
<p>iPod HiFi is loud. Really loud. Not only loud, but a speaker designed specificlly for playing compressed music. Honest reproduction of what turned out to be the main form of music we listen to today (not that you would have believed it then). There is something warm and pleasing, even at relatively low volume, about the HiFi’s speakers that makes it suitable for most kinds if music. Even as an everyday TV/Movie/Video game speaker for a small-ish space it’s a better than good performer. I’m yet to throw something at it and be disappointed - It’s no B&O or Bose, but it is far more competent than most sub-$500 equivalents around today - strictly as a powered speaker.</p>
<p>The price was always mooted as the reason the HiFi failed, to my eyes..err.. ears, the B&O A8 would be a great replacement the day my HiFi dies. But it’s almost a $1300AUD replacement, it does add some nice up to date features like AirPlay and like most B&O products is just as pleasing visually as it is aurally. </p>
<p>At the time, iPod was <em>the</em> thing Apple was doing. Using the iPod name seemed sensible at the time, why not try to leverage the biggest brand you have? In hindsight it was likely a mistake. Framing the HiFi as an accessory to the iPod kind of painted it into a corner. Which is unfortunate, because it deserved it’s own place. Perhaps Apple HiFi would have been a more fitting name.</p>
<p>The timing wasn’t really right, either. Apple had only just dropped the ‘Computer’ off the company name and an ‘over priced iPod accessory’ really didn’t fit. It was though, a very early glimpse of future(today)-consumer-electronics Apple.</p>
<p>Over time I’ve learnt that the HiFi is a great all rounder, what it lacks in modern features it makes up for in punch, right in the face. </p>
<p>A good quality centre speaker can make a huge difference to your average surround setup. Consider that difference in compared to your average TV speakers, adding or using exclusively an iPod HiFi. I can easily imagine Apple re-making this kind of difference accessible in a way only Apple can. </p>
<p>A visually simple, powerful, AirPlay enabled HiFi to replace or augment your crappy TV speakers.</p>
<p>With the array of replacements and accessory manufactures, you could argue there’s no point Apple resurrecting the HiFi, I have no idea if buying Beats means Apple is interested in getting back into the speaker game…but if it does, I hope it means I’ll finally get my Apple HiFi.</p>
tag:thestormglass.com,2014:Post/probably-the-best-website-on-the-internet2014-08-24T06:18:51-07:002014-08-24T06:18:51-07:00(Probably) The best website on the Internet. <p>Close to home for us network types: <a href="http://honestnetworker.wordpress.com" rel="nofollow">Honest Networker</a></p>
tag:thestormglass.com,2014:Post/im-9967-sure2014-07-16T06:43:36-07:002014-07-16T06:43:36-07:00I'm 99.67% sure...<p><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h6uq4OCla2c" rel="nofollow">…you didn’t see that coming.</a></p>
tag:thestormglass.com,2014:Post/hello2014-06-30T03:02:15-07:002014-06-30T03:02:15-07:00Hello.<p>I don’t know you and you don’t know me. That’s ok, all relationships start this way.</p>
<p>It’ll start off super friendly and interesting as we learn about each other and slowly, over time, it will become more familiar. You’ll know me, I’ll know you.<br>
Who knows, maybe we’ll even end up being friends.</p>
<p>But that’s all in the future.</p>
<p>What is this about? What are you even doing here? I don’t know. I can say that hopefully this will be equal parts entertaining, interesting and perhaps a little bit educational.</p>
<p>That sounded a bit too serious…better fix that:</p>
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