I’ve been reading Stephen O’Grady’s blog for a while now. More often then not, I learn a bit about segments of the computer industry that I might have otherwise been ignorant to. A recent post discusses the merits of various “cool” user interface enhancements. Most of these started with Mac OS-X and made it into […]

I guess I am getting fidgety without my regular dose of TV. This evening I decided to tinker with my old iPod Video (5th generation, 60GB). A group of very talented individuals have created a tool called iPodWizard that lets to customize and do theme-like things to your iPod. Next, another group of very […]

Two years ago, I retired the Volvo 240 wagon. It was still young with only a quarter million miles but it failed the Massachusetts emissions test by 0.1 <bummer>. I really liked that car. So, it headed off to charity (out of state) so it could live on. In it’s place, I got a truck […]

I’ve had some less than pleasant experiences over the past week with my web site. First my blog got temporarily trashed by a service error on the MySQL instance on the server. I tried their email support but that didn’t get a response in a reasonable amount of time so I decided to hang on […]