Month: October 2010
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How to Clean a Mighty Mouse
As with many Apple products, the Mighty Mouse is an absoute nightmare to disassemble. Normally I wouldn’t care, but the Mighty Mouse has a major design flaw that results in a non-functional trackball after a relatively short period of normal use. There is no shortage of how-to guides for cleaning a Mighty Mouse, though most…
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Non-Apple TV Update (Again)
It’s been a while, but here is another update on my non-Apple TV. The set up has remain largely unchanged, though the usage has evolved with changes in the available video sources. First up, hardware. The system is currently based on a Mac Mini 1.66 GHz Core Du0 with 2GB RAM, and a 500GB internal HDD– the old…
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2010 Foxy 1000
Last weekend I raced in the Foxy 1000, a 100km enduro race with the claim to fame of 1000m of climbing in each of the four laps. The race covers much of the single track and fire roads at Fox Creek, and if you’re good at math(s) then you’ll have noted that it climbs over…