Phantom power

Grumblebee opens pandora’s mbox on AskMe, with informative results. His mbox gets shutdown by WinXP as overly powerhungry when he engages a phantom-powered mike. The solution is NOT to add a powered hub, but rather, to add an inline phantom power source.

I mean, obviously. Even if I didn’t think of it.

Cheery News

Be Warned: Mr. Bubble’s Worried Again, NYT:

He predicts that prices could fall 40 percent in inflation-adjusted terms over the next generation and that the end of the bubble will probably cause a recession at some point.

Oh, happy day!

The article’s accompanying chart graphic provides a look at the subject’s custom-built long-term, inflation adjusted American housing price index, which sports a disturbing curve representing the current climb.