Geekfoolery

There is something about getting a new computer that is bit like getting a new car. When you get your very first computer of your very own, you are suddenly free from the shame of begging to borrow your buddy’s machine, or heading off down to the library to surf the net. Now it’s your […]

Sometimes I find myself very excited about some gift that I want to give my kids for Christmas or their birthday or something. Either it’s something I think will be cool or educational or something I wish I could have had when I was a kid, and so I buy them and give them out. […]

There’s lots of good, scientific, politically correct reasons to want to use less gas. Here’s one that everyone can agree on: It’s expensive. And it’s not likely to get significantly cheaper any time soon. What follows are a couple interesting twists on some ideas that have been in the public eye recently.

Earlier this month, I began Zunewatch 2007, based on the idea that if I wish to use the social aspect of the Zune–you know, “Welcome to the Social“–then I would want to see what kind of people are buying and using the Zune “in the wild.” Although the Zune was released to the public in […]

*apologies to Percy Bysshe Shelley
You may recall a high school English lesson about Ozymandias, the great king whose shattered statue sitting abandoned in the desert reads,
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!”
The rest is here. I was reminded of this little snippet from English Lit class when I […]

Yahoo! Inc. launched a new service called Pipes today, though there’s a good chance you saw what I and many others saw when you tried to check it out… a note from Yahoo! saying the Pipes were clogged and a plumber is on the way. Guess there was a flood of people looking to try […]