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In June and July 2008, I’m going from Seattle to Providence to New York to Rome to Tuscany to Venice to New York to Seattle with a backpack full of digital goodies.

There’s a car in my neighborhood that has a small circular sticker in its window bearing the logo of the USA Water Polo Association:

Every time I see it I confuse it with the Barack Obama presidential logo, which I really love for its simplicity:

Coincidence or water polo association conspiracy?

Amazon.com’s various country sites commemorate Christmas in different ways.

Real estate is much more pricey in Seattle than in Pittsburgh, but a bargain hunter can always find a good buy. Seattle Bubble, a great counterpoint to the relentless optimism of commission-starved Realtors, found a gem of a property: 57 acres, massive square footage, and a unique structure from the mid-20th century.
It’s a decommissioned […]

text confessional: it works!

Originally uploaded by Lele McLeod.

Earlier this year, a co-worker pitched to me the McLeod Residence, an off-beat project in which he was an investor. “The Residence” is a bar/gallery/social club with an emphasis on creating a sort of synthetic family. […]

A couple of months ago, my co-worker David came to me with a question. Our boss, Dan, wouldn’t tell him his birthday. David asked if I could find it for him. I ended up finding it through a public-records search provider called PeopleFinders. It cost $10 to get our boss’s birthday, address, […]

After two months of delays, the hatbox-shaped Sony VAIO VGX-TP1 PC is finally shipping. Mine arrived last week, and I took a few photos of the various components as I unboxed them.

Just like the initial photos showed, this is a computer with very austere looks in an unusual squat cylinder case. The TP1 […]

February has come and gone. 24 is getting more intense though I still like season 5 better than this season. The Office continues to stand out as a great show in its own right.
In February I spent $33.67 on video expenses. Compared to my usual cable bill of $70, that’s more than […]

The Joost user interface features several unobtrusive widgets that disappear when the user stops using the mouse and keyboard. (enlarge)
The folks who brought Voice over IP to the masses with Skype are at it again, making Joost the punchy new name for their multicast Internet video system. (The old name, the Venice Project, was even less […]

Today was the hugely-anticipated keynote at the Macworld Conference & Expo. As expected, we saw the final version of the iTV (now called Apple TV) which streams video from five PCs and syncs with one. For $300, as much as I paid for my Xbox 360 (which will act as an IPTV set-top […]