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 [...]
I was lucky enough to snag one of Woot’s famous “Bags of Crap” on Christmas day 2006. It arrived today. For $3.00 plus $5.00 shipping and handling, I got three units of “random crap” — but my bag (box) of crap actually contained 41 items!
Check out what I got on Flickr!
I’m already starting work on my first new year’s resolution: I’m cutting cable out of my expenses.
Comcast quoted me a promotional rate of $30 a month for digital cable, plus $10 per month to rent a high definition DVR that is crashes and malfunctions nearly as much as the model I had in Pittsburgh. [...]
Last night I attended Ignite Seattle, a technology gathering unlike any I’ve seen before. Imagine 200 people packed in like sardines to watch a list of a diverse group of 25 people give rapid-fire talks to a captive, tech-savvy audience.
Anyone who knows PowerPoint presentations knows that a “five-minute presentation” after including setup time, switching [...]
Today I went into work dressed as “the Internet” in the form of a series of tubes. The homemade costume was made of 12 cardboard mailing tubes I bought off eBay, web page printouts from 12 of the most popular sites that printed well, and a phony ID badge bearing the name and photo [...]
This bizarre graphic pretty much sums up my reaction to tonight’s Steelers-Jaguars game on Monday Night Football. The Steelers lost 9-0 on a national ESPN telecast. (Final box score)