To anticipate and prevent
I’ve been researching and looking at touring bikes for a while now. Ever since I’ve had to return John’s bike, I’ve been keeping my eye out for used bikes and doing more digging from time to time. After my first long ride, which I’ve talked about previously, I knew what I wanted from a touring…
So I’m traveling a bit as of late. Most of my traveling is normally car based, but I’ve also got two plane based trips back to back. The first is a business trip to Texas and the second is my vacation to Minnesota. I’m currently on my way to Texas (as I write this) and…
I remember very clearly when The Last Samurai was first coming out. The thought of Tom Cruise ruining what could be a decent movie on feudal Japan was forefront in my mind. Far happened to be in town so she and I went down to see the movie in Carson City, not expecting much. What…
Two things I need to mention off the bat. Number 1, if you’ve been playing along at home and saying to yourself “The Kindle DX has been out for much longer than 2 weeks”, you’re right, but this post got delayed due to scheduling conflicts. Number 2, I’ve returned my Kindle DX. So, with that…
When I first started this blog many years ago, I decided that it was going to be “tech only” and that worked for a good long while, though eventually I got tired of it. The main problem is that when you work with computers, your hobby is computers and all you write about is computers…
Most commercial applications in this day and age have fairly decent user interfaces. A lot of money is put forth into making them as user friendly as possible. The problem is that sometimes these “friendly” ways aren’t necessarily the best users of screen real estate. Nowhere is this better exemplified than Office 2007’s “ribbons”. Now…