Category: General

I’m going to put my 2 cent foot in my mouth, and state that there is no need for a publisher’s clearing house to manage my many subscriptions. This ...

A water pipe for the emergency sprinkler system in the Mahopac Public Library burst a few weeks back. The library has been down since then for repairs, and the ...

The United States Patent Office formerly required that working models accompany patent applications. It hasn’t for a while now. The result of no longer re...

The Big Sister is spelling up a storm. Yesterday she told me, Dad, I know how to spell TV. You do? How? Tee. Vee. 😀 Meanwhile, the Little Sister mimics her big ...

So, everyone knows by now that Google’s working on their planetary-scale general-purpose computer. And now Telepocalpyse points out PlanetLab, an open pla...

David Fletcher remarks Back in 2003, I mentioned that Portugal’s legislature had authorized the creation of weblogs for all legislators to promote better ...

Dost thou recall the IBM PCjr? Take a Mac Mini, connect it to your television, add a wireless keyboard and mini-mouse. Voila.

Zimran thinks that the Mac Mini and iPod Shuffle are triumphs of marketing. First, consider the iPod Shuffle. Flash drive mp3 player with no screen — you ...

Sweet! The New York Times, via c|net, reports that Google cares about grammar. Right on, man!

Apple introduced a few new toys this morning. Apparently they are Good Stuff, because Apple’s site is intermittently available at this writing.

WCI Communities finally updated their Four Corners description to include home plans. These samples, from the village collection are out-of-place. The images do...

On Friday, SBC announced that the SBC Foundation, the charitable giving arm of SBC Communications, will provide up to $2 million in funds to assist disaster rel...

An impact caused our Olympus D-580‘s lens to offset from the center line, and thus not work. We did not purchase the extended warranty. The Olympus list p...

BBC America is sponsoring a writing contest to promote their Canterbury Tales series. I could win an iBook!

Phil Windley points to an article by Sam Tregar in Dr. Dobb’s Journal on using virtual machines, specifically VMware, as build-to-order test environments....

Two shows that we’ve been watching regularly are Desperate Housewives and Murder in Suburbia. I watch them for the places as much as the plots. The latter...

The kittens are chasing the cursor.

Netcraft has released the year-end web server survey results for 2004. These show Apache gaining 1% over Microsoft Internet Information Server. They do not comm...

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