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Christmas Holiday Geekery 2008

This Christmas season I used the downtime supplied by most of my peers taking two weeks off of work (can you say downturn?) to get around to a number of highly geeky personal projects on my residence’s IT network.  Aided by the web (and knowing which...

Never Trust a Geek

None of us really knows how our cars work, which means that every trip to the auto mechanic is an act of faith. Even when we’re suspicious of the repairs or dubious diagnosis provided by the corner mechanic we often roll over anyway, throw open our wallets, and...

Bend over.

Thanks Mike; I don’t think there’s an Anti-American bias on this list (now that Caroline Rechia is gone.. tee hee!) so much as there is an Anti-Bush bias. Americans comprise roughly 50% of the readership here, and in my random sampling of those people not...

Harry Connick Thinks Different

I saw this the last time Harry Connick, Jr. toured and thought it was scary: he uses flat screens in his orchestra rather than sheet music. During the concert that I went to (in 1999, in fact) he explained that he had re-arranged a bunch of new songs while riding in...

News Feed..

If you want to watch CNN’s raw satellite dump of the Terrorist coverage it’s available at: http://mfile.akamai.com/95/live/reflector:20305.ram?bkup 307 Not too many people know about this so it’s pretty consistently fast....