Category: General

Martin Geddes complained that his new hp desk doesn’t have a built-in microphone. That was news to me. I thought they just pretended to have microphones, ...

Speaking of idiots, the always, ahem, useful Slashdot relays this drivel from AppleInsider: that Apple will release a two-button mouse. I suppose that now that ...

For those not from the area, New Jersey does not have self-service gas stations. The joke, among New Yorkers at least, is that this is because the folks down in...

I’ve been using del.icio.us to keep my bookmarks recently because it solves the bookmark synchronization problem, but I’ve found that there are a lo...

There’s only a certain amount of time in the day. I could either fill my head with rote memorization, and gain no deeper understanding of the systems, or ...

The Big Sister picked new colors for her room. She tells the story of The Picking and The Painting to everyone she meets. And, a side benefit while the paint dr...

The Little Sister is fascinated by the antenna. She calls the radio, “phone.” The Big Sister wants to know if it has Disney music, which it

I got my Grundig radio. Thanks, David, for mentioning that there was such a beast as a $29 shortwave radio. Of course, I had to call my Dad to tell him. He soun...

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Cable Disconnected Description . . . . . . . . . . . : Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection

You need more memory. Really, you do. I had 256MB of RAM on my laptop; now I have 512MB. This is not enough. This is not enough because I will swap. Performance...

We initially thought, oh, let’s build up, and add a second story onto the house. That’s not going to work due to the cost of construction, so our cu...

Microsoft ended support for Windows NT 4.0 on January 1, 2005. Novell has taken advantage of this sales opportunity by releasing a public service announcement. ...

Instead of building yet another authentication source for your web application, you should strive to make use of existing sources. Depending on your environment...

I think Technorati is pretty neat, but I haven’t gushed over it. It attempts to answer the question, “who’s talking about me?” But, unle...

They like riding in strollers.

As I put on my boots this morning, on my way out to shovel the snow, I was accosted by the Little Sister. Daddy, don’t go. Stay here with me. And Mommy. A...

This dialog, how one developer explained REST to his wife, is funny, and close to home. Toward the end, he mentions the motivation behind SOAP. We’re usin...

What gnik has done with Google Maps is just fantastic. Unfortunately, it looks like Google’s broken it.

Jason Kottke pointed to the Bacontarian, a site devoted to one of my favorite foods: bacon! Our cafeteria’s delivery guy somehow managed to forget bacon y...

I just used the movies search trick on Google to see what’s playing in our area. I have one word of advice for every other movie listings site out there: ...