Archive for July, 2007

How geeky is your vacuum ?

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

As part of selling the house and “downsizing” I gave my old canister vacuum to me neighbors for their barn. It was partly an excuse to finally get the vacuum cleaner I’ve always wanted. This last statement should set of all sorts of alarms. There actually is a vacuum cleaner I’ve have coveted for […]

Mutant Dog !

Monday, July 30th, 2007

I don’t know what happened but one minute, my mild mannered little ball of fur was happily playing and the next, she was replaced with this crazy looking dog with three legs on one side and one on the other. Obviously, the resulting dog was unable to stand, and lay flopped on the floor.

Myth #5 in "YouTube and Politics"

Monday, July 30th, 2007

Mr Antonio at the Washington Post recently wrote of the political debates “televised” on YouTube. The format for the debate was people posting video questions on YouTube and Anderson Cooper selecting a set of those questions, airing them and then getting candidates’ responses. He outlined five myths about the experiment. He makes good points with good […]

What is it? #1 - Answer

Sunday, July 29th, 2007

My brother stopped by to visit and I told him about the “what it is” I posted. He asked to look at the “thing”. After only a minute he said; “If I were to guess, I’d say it was for cracking pecans.”
I Googled “pecan cracker” for images and he was right! There are lots of images […]

Micro Businesses

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Carl Tyler of Epilio recently wrote, “How big is small?” referring to the definition of small and medium businesses (SMB).
This is an interesting question given that large established companies often have very different definitions. Microsoft, who makes the bulk of its revenue from consumers, markets SMB as 25-500 computer seats. Whereas IBM, who makes the […]