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Phono preamp phase three!

Posted on 1 July 2010 by Greg Burrell

Welcome to part 3 of my ongoing series on building a phono preamp. This is going to be a quick one because it’s Canada Day and there’s drinking to do, but you can follow these links to read part 1 …

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Building a phono preamp, part 2

Posted on 25 June 2010 by Greg Burrell

Turns out this series will have multiple postings, as a result of severe failure. Which I should have been anticipating, probably. In part 1 of this series, I explained our partial success in finding a record player at Value Village, …

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Vinyl odyssey part 1

Posted on 22 June 2010 by Greg Burrell

Tay & I have wanted a record player for a while. I sort of inherited my grandfather’s vinyl collection when I moved to Toronto and cleared out mom & dad’s basement for spare dishes and empty boxes. He was from …

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Blogging from Gmail

Posted on 23 March 2010 by Greg Burrell

I just this morning learned that Google actually took the time to develop a Gmail app for my cheap Nokia cell phone. In a sudden brainstorm, I realised I could use Gmail with the app to post content on my …

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I’m riding the //ave, but I don’t know what that means yet

Posted on 13 January 2010 by Greg Burrell

Happy new year everyone! Yeah, a few days late I know. And “everyone” is about 3 people. But that doesn’t stop me! I got a Google Wave invitation this week, and I’ve been playing around with it a bit. So …

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Censorship and Facebook

Posted on 20 December 2009 by Greg Burrell

“It’s like twitter. Except we charge people to use it.” It’s come to my attention that a link I posted to Facebook somewhat recently has been flagged as inappropriate “by Facebook users” and blocked.  I fully realize that Facebook needs …

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Picasa 3.5

Posted on 24 September 2009 by Greg Burrell

I spent most of tonight playing around with Picasa 3.5, which may not be particularly new but is “new to me” tonight. I mentioned in a previous post that I was considering opening up a Flickr account, hoping that I’d …

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Avoiding Disaster

Posted on 31 August 2009 by Greg Burrell

Some people close to me know that I was somewhat annoyed with Blogger while creating my recent post on HDR photography at Algonquin.  It seemed unnecessarily difficult to position the pics within the tiny blog frame, which I mostly circumvented …

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I can’t let you do that, Dave

Posted on 23 January 2009 by Greg Burrell

Automated voice recognition menu systems piss me off. I’m calling the automatic menu system because I want to hear the options available and pick one, without having to announce what I’m doing to the rest of the office. If I …

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