Geekfoolery

It is always a good idea to wait about a week or so before committing to an opinion after one of Steve Jobs’ MacWorld keynotes, just to give the Reality Distortion Field time to dissipate.
It’s easy to get totally sucked in, and come away thinking that a computer shaped like a cube is going to […]

So here we are, less than a week to go before Christmas. There’s still time to shop online, if you don’t mind paying extra for shipping, and there’s a solid 3 days this weekend to pick over the unsold dregs at the mall. It is about this part of the season where I start to […]

There is perhaps no stronger early childhood memory than that of coming downstairs on Christmas morning to behold a treasure of wrapped gifts under the Christmas tree, larger by at least an order of magnitude than the anemic pile of boxes and packages placed there the night before by family members. There, staring you in […]

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 […]

*headline stolen shamelessly from the Philip K. Dick story.

Pleo is toy dinosaur made by a company called Ugobe that is expected to hit store shelves sometime next year. I’m sure if the marketing people had their way, it would be in stores in time for Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, with visions of Cabbage […]

I am not quite of the age that grew up in fear that the Soviet Union (always the aggressor, of course) would one day get pissed off and nuke the living hell out of us. Backyard bomb shelters and nuclear air raid drills were a bit before my time. I remember discussion of proposed shell-game […]