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Mr. Alex, your host here on Geekfoolery for the past year+ since its inception in Dec 2006, has some new digs on gadget blog, Gizmos for Geeks. Don’t worry, Mr. Alex will still be waxing philosophically on all manner of technology, trends and downright geekiness in the style you’ve come to know and love. Without […]

I have been a happy Netflix subscriber for several years now. This is of course the age of 84-inch high-def plasma TVs, Tivo, and 800-channel cable/satellite channel lineups. I’ll spare you the tales of my Oliver Twist-like youth of audiovisual impoverishment, where we had 3, count ‘em, 3 channels. And if you weren’t home when […]

I was prompted to reset a password to a web-based tool I use at work the other day. It was something I don’t use everyday, so I assumed I had used some variant on my “standard” password, but it didn’t work. Tried a few other that I thought it might be, but no luck. So […]

By Sirius, it is the dog days of summer, a time of weekend projects, puttering in the garage and the yard, making a general mess of things and whacking a knuckle or slicing open a nasty piece of your thumb because the clamp that you should have used was on the other end of the […]

Today, Boeing Aircraft unveiled the 787 Dreamliner, on the happy coincidence of 7/8/07. Maybe you have to be some kind of airplane nerd to get excited about this… after all, at first glance, it’s a big white tube with wings and 2 engines, and in all likelihood bad food and and delayed departures.
But if […]

It is obvious that automotive technology has improved dramatically over the years. But that doesn’t always mean that cars have.
I want to take a look at some well-known cars that have been around long enough to have been redesigned over the years, and see if the newer is always better. While I invite commentary and […]