27
Jul
Wired has a great post titled 100 Things Your Kids May Never Know. Here are a few good ones:
20. The buzz of a dot-matrix printer
30. Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge in the hopes that it’ll load this time.
70. Taking turns picking a radio station, or selecting a tape, for everyone to listen [...]
02
Jun
There have been a couple new search engines in the news lately. I have used both of them, and I am impressed. The first is Wolfram Alpha. This is certainly not your traditional search engine. It is more of a computational search engine. For instance, you can search for the International Space Station. It will [...]
25
Mar
I just wanted to post and let everyone know that I DO still exist. I have been very busy at work, and I just have not made the time to blog when I get home. Plus, nothing has really caught my fancy as of late. I am in a little bit of a slump…
The basketball [...]
29
Jan
I am fed up with Charter’s internet. However, in my area there is really no other option that I am aware of. I am paying Charter for a 5 Mb/s internet connection. However tonight it is just over 500 Kb/s. One TENTH of what I am paying for. When I call, however, they are no [...]
31
Aug
Have you ever desired to rearrange your Windows Taskbar? I know I certainly have. Well I just found a neat little program that will allow you to do this. You can also reorder you system tray and close windows in the taskbar with a middle-click on your mouse (just like tabs in [...]
23
Aug
According to Electronista, Japan is developing a “New Internet” that should be ready by 2020. The country’s Communications Minister Yoshihide Suga said:
Japan hopes to create a world network architecture that overcomes many of the fundamental problems that affect the current Internet by introducing faster overall connections, data packets that are more likely to reach their [...]
14
Aug
I have always said that as soon as Macs or Linux becomes mainstream, they will be able to be hacked and people will start to write viruses for them. Here is a story about just that. The article says:
And my Microsoft, Windows-loving self didn’t say [hacking Macs is easy]. It was self-proclaimed Mac enthusiast and [...]