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Thanks Walmart, not really……..

Monday, January 14th, 2008
So, I am already not a Walmart fan and what they did over the weekend doesn’t help. A friend of mine pointed me to their site when they had the Smash Bros Brawl game for the Wii on pre-order for $19.82. So, I was thinking Great! A new Wii game for $19.82 and [...]

Drooooool

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Dell’s new LCD monitor.

Song Bird and Anywhere FM

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
I am a sucker for new ways to enjoy my media. I recently found 2 new music services that I am really liking. They both accomplish similar goals but in different ways. Songbird is a Mozilla application that you download to your machine. Songbird allows the user to browse to pages [...]

Google can redesign your home?

Monday, November 12th, 2007
Yeah, so a friend sent me a link to Scott Hanselman’s blog where he has a post on how to create a 3d model of your house for visualization using some [...]

High tech twist on low tech toys

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Artist and metalsmith, Nathan Dube, has created a body of work that transforms low tech toys to be high tech and extravagant. I love the piece pictured here, the S.P.I.T., a laser sighted spit wad shooter. These pieces are beautifully crafted and well thought out. Dube states that he “explores [...]

I want my space back

Monday, October 29th, 2007
So, after the Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard install was complete I was mostly happy. After a short period where the CPU ran at 95% it finally settled down and things are now running smoothly, except my battery now takes forever to recharge. Anyway, instead of buying a new machine, I installed [...]

Mac OS 10.5 Leopard is here!

Friday, October 26th, 2007
Well Mac OS 10.5 Leopard arrived at 10:30 exactly via FedEx just like Apple said and it is now installing on my laptop. The packaging is nice as usual and I can’t wait to get my hands on it. Update: this is great- Software with a sense of humor