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January 2006

Absolutely random Amazon.com discounts

Living in the northeast means dry weather all winter long. That leads to dry nostrils and very uncomfortable living. To help out, I’ve been trying to get a humidifier from Best Buy for about two weeks, but they are constantly out of stock due to the aforementioned super dry-ass weather. …

ASICs and FPGAs — market trends

Being involved in FPGA and reconfigurable device research means that I’ve sat in the audience of a lot of talks that have touted the fact that ASIC “starts” are declining and FPGA starts are just blowin’ up. What is an ASIC design start? From Synopsis, it’s a “single design, designed …

Cell towers, honor code, stocks, oh my!

I’ve become a bit of a NYT online fanboy of late. Maybe because I feel uninformed, what with my diet of current events mostly coming courtesy of Jon Stewart, and a complete lack of the news thanks to Tivo. So, in salute of being a bet^H^H^H more informed citizen, a …