Geekfoolery

Amazon announced their Kindle eBook reader this week, joining Sony’s Reader in the relatively uncrowded market for electronic book devices. Sony’s latest is a slicker 2.0 version of its first offering from a couple years ago. Kindle is Amazon’s baby, what I assume they are hoping will be a killer app, the iPod of the […]

From the sands of New Mexico, my good friend Bob Steinke’s Lunar Lander, the Laramie Rose, is still in the running for X Prize money offer by Grumman. Here follows the official press release:

Mr. Alex has been traveling on business for the last two weeks, and there’s nothing like business travel to test the limits of one’s always-on wireless connectedness to the virtual office and online network of cow-orkers.
I had with me on my two week trip:
An IBM laptop (work).
A Mac laptop (personal).
A Sprint wireless broadband card for […]