We had a little snow a couple of days ago and got more tonight — it actually seems to be sticking now. The upcoming forecast varies depending on what you want to believe. So, for the next few days, I’m going to track which of the various weather resources is most accurate. To keep these […]
O, the perils of technological life! Wired reports that music sharing is letting playlistism creep into university social circles. I predict that by 2010, there will be a twelve-step program.
My daughter received a talking “Cat in the Hat” for her birthday. It initially looked really cool: it reads The Cat In The Hat to your kids.
Mitch asked me what the most comments I’ve ever received on a blog entry was. I looked, and it’s currently 12 about the donotcall.gov program. I’m not sure why, but several of the folks visiting think I am the do not call list administrator. I’ve gone through different stages of thought about this… initially one
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Consumer Reports has an article on how bad software and product support is getting. In the last two weeks, I’ve had to contact various organizations’ support organizations for a variety of reasons, some tech and some not.
I finally have enough room in my garage to fit a car inside. While cleaning it out over the last few weekends, I’ve found a lot of strange stuff. Some of this I’ve thrown away, but the rest has nostalgic value… like my collection of 1980s cassettes. I realized that I don’t have a cassette
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Asteroid Impact Alert Level* Last week the Near Earth Objects Information Centre issued a retraction regarding the earlier news report that 2003 QQ47 had a strong likelihood of impacting in 14 years. Your challenge, gentle reader, generate similar wise-apple comments to a real or fictitous story. (Please keep it clean!)
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Fry’s opened up its first store in Washington state. Fry’s is a strange place — sort of a department store for geeks with a large selection of stuff, prices slightly higher than mail-order, theme-based decor, and notoriously oppressive customer service. If you don’t mind the casino feel — and I mean that as in pit
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