Geekfoolery

Apple, Inc. (have to get out of the habit of saying Apple Computer) was in music news twice this week. One headline would have been a stunning revelation 5 years ago, but it almost an afterthought today. The second item was far more important, but probably slipped by most people’s radar unnoticed.

Until last week, I had never heard of Aqua Teen Hunger Force, an animated show on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim lineup. I expect most people hadn’t heard of it, either, even those of you who do have cable. But after last week’s bomb scare in Boston shut down parts of the city, which later turned […]

As a nation, we blow a lot of money on military research. Sometimes the result is cool, but not practical, like the Bell Rocketbelt. Sometimes the result is practical, but unappealing, like MREs. Every once in a while, though, the tax-funded military research comes up with something that is just codswallopingly cool AND practical, and […]

The late, great Hunter S. Thompson once said, “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.” Well, I’m no Hunter S. Thompson, but once upon a time, in a bygone era, I, Mr. Alex, cheated on a high school math test… and used a computer to […]

A brand new spankin’ new copy of Microsoft Office 2007, shrink-wrapped and everything, will cost you at a minimum, $129.00 for the Home/Student edition. It includes Word, Excel, Powerpoint and OneNote, whatever that is. The more powerful Full Version, with Publisher, Access, Outlook and all that crap runs $437.99, though don’t forget, free shipping.
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Microsoft’s new operating system Vista becomes available to the general public today. The OS is reviewed here, here, and here, just to name a few places. But I think the reasons that release of Vista is an important milestone in the tech world are NOT Vista’s new look or its new security features, or its […]