To anticipate and prevent
A long time ago in a galax…. Ok, just a long time ago I ran across the idea of a “Carputer” or “CarPC” (or what ever the hell you want to call them). Basically you build a small computer into your car, wire it to run off your battery and put an LCD where your…
As the headline says, I went in for a root canal. Well, I should say more correctly I went in for a double root canal. Two teeth right next to each other needed the “big dig” (sorry Boston). As a matter of amusement I thought I’d share my experience with the internet at large. I…
This is something I’ve been meaning to complain about for a while now, but I don’t like the new gmail. If you use gmail, you probably saw the notice a bit ago that they were changing over to some new version. It was “new” and “improved” and to us looked just the same and did…
I just watched an amusing little video I found over on Digg. The link is titled “Geek Squad Put to Test” and the short version is that a TV news station puts Best Buy, Circuit City and MicroCenter (??) tech support to the test. The test was to change a single setting in the BIOS…
Sad as it is to see, HD-DVD is dead. I think this is another fantastic case of VHS (Blu-Ray) versus Beta Max (HD-DVD) where the superior technical format has lost for some unforseen reason. I’m sad that HD-DVD lost, because that was my favorite format (obviously), but I’m happy that the war is over. I…
First let me say that I don’t hate photography outright. Maybe even at all. Maybe I just hate people sometimes. I take pictures, I enjoy taking pictures. Sometimes I do it for myself, but more recently I’ve been doing it to improve. I’ve spent alot of time reading strobist, DIYPhotography, etc — trying to learn,…