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People read on the surface that USB 2.0 is capable of 480 hoobajits per frabbit, which is higher than the 400 hoobafrabs regular old Firewire (or IEEE 1394) can do. As if! There are lots of technical reasons why 480 is not necessarily > 400, and none of those is "because I went to school in Kansas."

I have a friend who wants a reasonably priced portable hard drive to store music from his live performances, the rights to which he clearly owns or at least has unfettered rights to, and in no way includes media that would be criminal or just very, very naughty to distribute. During the holiday season, he'd like to throw this storage mechanism in his bag, visit his parents, and let them have free access to his performances. Parents are proud, and will sit through hours of their bass-playing son interminably thumping a root for nineteen hours on end, and believe me, Goose can thump a root for a long time.

Oh yeah, we found a place in SF. Soma, about a mile from work if I drove according to Google maps. I'm thinking about donating or craigslisting our bikes here and buying an iXi, because a mile is too long for a fatty like me to walk. Plus, people who "bike to work" just sound more fit than someone who walked to work.

Like, right now, when I walk to work. The alarm goes off, I go look for caffeine in the fridge or on the counter if Kat grabbed me a cuppa from *$, and then stagger into the study. If I tried Karen's pedometer experiment, I'd find out I walked about 400 feet in a typical workday.

There's this great property called System.Environment.UserInteractive in .NET that tells you if the application was executed interactively. This is a great opportunity to decide where to dump the output of your application. If it's true, spew to System.Console. If it's false, write to a file or, in the case of Windows, to the beautiful, beautiful Event Log, available via System.Diagnostics.EventLog, even -- no work necessary!