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Last night I began watching the first episode of Town Haul. This should be interesting. It’s not about doing over the living room of someone who has bad t...

Anybody can search. I search for things all the time, but, as my wife can tell you, I do not often find them. Searching, without finding, can turn up all sorts ...

What use could Google have for the dark fiber they’re rumored to be buying? The (London) Times speculates that it has something to do with VoIP. Maybe. I&...

I was just editing my feed configuration over at FeedBurner, and noticed this witticism. Earn some Flooz real money with your feed. My former employer helped bu...

Google suggests adding a rel="nofollow" attribute to links which you don’t want Google to follow. They suggest this in order to reduce the PageRank incent...

Glenn Fleishman, over at his WiFi Networking News site, points to a lament that the MTA has no wireless, should have wireless, and must get wireless as soon as ...

Someone tried to blow up our library yesterday.

Bill and I were just talking about workstations on the way back from Lunch yesterday. Coincidence? Or Synchronicity? I know why I was thinking about them, but w...

Curbed alerts us to plans by Commerce Bank to put a suburban building in an urban locale. Those of y’all who live in Park Slope, Brooklyn, might want to o...

Last week Apple introduced the Mac Mini, and already there’s an enthusiast’s site and speculation on using the Mini as a portable home theater. My o...

I have a simple answer for why Java is more popular on the server than on the desktop, and it has nothing to do with performance: Which version of what?

David Parmet shows a photograph of an Iraqi girl who lost her parents to our mistake. 🙁

The Fedora Core 3 release notes mention The default Input Method (IM) for Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Japanese, and Korean has been changed to IIIMF &...

Chuq writes The core of blogging in many ways is how we interconnect a referral network. … So when I decided to cut back on the number of blogs in my aggr...

The Town of Yorktown installed a traffic light at the intersection of Underhill Avenue, Kear and Commerce Streets, where I need to make a left turn on my way in...

I asked for socks this Christmas, and got some from both my wife and my mom. The socks Mom gave me are two cozy pairs in green and red, suitable for Winter, fro...

A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow. For some reason today, perhaps because the kittens kept trying to jump on our bed all last night, I fe...

We are no longer selling.

Drivers attempt to leave gasoline depot. Masked bandits steal their paperwork. Hilarity ensues.