Blue Enclave in Texas rejects Green Power
Heh. Them folks down in Austin, they’re all for the Green; until they have to pay greenbacks from their own wallets for it! Austin’s clean energy program costing more, selling…...
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
A Nobel Peace Prize…For Twitter?
Former Deputy National Security Advisor Mark Pfeile thinks it should happen per this segment on Fox News: Bream: Let’s talk about the Administration’s so far. Has it been on point?…...
Saturday, March 14, 2009
Cell Phones and Cars
I belong to the Triple-A and recommend it. If you ever have a breakdown while you’re on the road they can be a godsend. I had a car problem on…...
Thursday, March 12, 2009
What An Amazing World We Live In
Jerry Pournelle’s recent column struck a nerve with me: The new 3G iPhone moves us a long way toward the pocket computer Niven and I described in 1973 in The…...
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Virus Warning
Last week I read this on Jerry Pournelle’s computer user blog. (In the letters section.) XP Antivirus 2008/2009, the nastiest piece of spyware I’ve seen in a…...
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Deranged Scientist Claims That Sun Affects the Earth’s Weather and Climate
The sun’s magnetic field may have a significant impact on weather and climatic parameters in Australia and other countries in the northern and southern hemispheres. According to a study in…...
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Open Office 2009 Scam Alert
I just got an email to download Open Office 2009. Open Office Suite 2009 Open, Create & Edit Your Files Download Open Office Suite 2009 - Create and export PDF…...
Monday, August 04, 2008
Obama’s Energy Policy Has Little To Do With Freedom
Today Obama (who began to crater last week on his opposition to expanded domestic drilling for oil) is launching his energy policy this week. Looking at the “Energy Policy Fact…...
Friday, August 01, 2008
100% Efficient Hydrogen Manufacture?
This is cool! PORTLAND, Ore. — Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have combined a liquid catalyst with photovoltaic cells to achieve what they claim is a solar energy…...
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Google: Complete Privacy Does Not Exist
A lawyer representing Google said, during the proceedings of a lawsuit against the company over its Street View product, said: Today’s satellite-image technology means that even in today’s desert, complete…...
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Google’s Privacy Defense: Feel Free To Switch To Another Service Any Time
In yesterday’s Senate hearings concerning privacy Google responded to questions about its privacy policy with this: If our users are uncomfortable with how we manage their personal information, they are…...
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
How Does Steve Jobs Sleep Nights
OK this isn’t any big deal but it’s just so frustrating. For Christmas I got my wife an Ipod. She was hinting that she’d like one. You know kinda like…...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
Buying Internet Access Piecemeal
Time to revolt slaves of Time Warner: This Thursday, new cable Internet customers in Beaumont, Texas will no longer have unmetered Internet bandwidth - they’re guinea pigs in a new…...
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Girl Finds New Way To Embarrass Oneself On Google
Google, in its never-ending desire to index everything in the world, has recently added a new feature to its maps product which allows you to see from-the-ground photos of locations. …...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Philadelphia’s Public WiFi Experiment Ends In Failure
It fails almost two years to the day that the service was originally announced. EarthLink, which once pinned its future on municipal networks such as Philadelphia’s following rapid declines in…...
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
New York Times To Hillary: Give Up And Let Us Crown Obama Already
The editorial board at the New York Times is clearly tired of the Democrat primary race and all the in-fighting it is creating. Clearly, they’re anxious to get back to…...
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
European Union Spending $152 Million To Re-Invent The Wheel
The politicians in the EU have decided to spend $152 million of their constituent’s tax dollars on developing a rival for Google. The problem is that we’ve already got a…...
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Rich People Use Google, Poor People Use Yahoo
That’s the result of a new study by a marketing firm, but I’m not sure I agree with them. What the study found was that people who use Google have…...
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Pay-By Use Internet Fees?
Interesting… In a chilling bit of news for any net aficionado, Time Warner is reportedly planning to try out a new billing scheme where they would charge customers based on…...
Friday, December 07, 2007
Woman Arrested, Convicted, Fined For Blog Comment
She praised the Columbine shooters as “heroes.” It was a crude, stupid comment even if it was “sarcastic” as claimed. But the last time I checked, saying crude and/or stupid…...
Monday, December 03, 2007
Firefox Flash Blocker
My main computer is my notebook that’s three and an half years old. Lately it’s been getting painfully slow. I haven’t had the problems like this on my home desktops,…...
Saturday, December 01, 2007
Google, Privacy And Choice
Now that Google is hinting at an online storage solution (to possibly be called Gdrive), I see the privacy zealots are already atwitter. Which I don’t understand. I mean, it…...
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Exoskeletons For Soldiers
This is very cool…
Video games meet reality....
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Google Finally Gets Around To Honoring Veterans
It’s about time. It’s not that Google has to recognize Veteran’s Day, but in the past it’s seemed like a rather petty snub for the company to acknowledge every other…...
Wednesday, November 07, 2007
Pork Illustrated
Have you ever been reading an article or a report about all the billions upon billions of dollars in pork Congress stuck into one appropriations bill or the other, but…...
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Hillary Clinton Would Like To Control Your Internet
Because that’s what people like her mean when they say they want the government to provide you with services like health care and the internet. They don’t want to just…...
Monday, August 20, 2007
Post Columnist Michael Skube Blasts Bloggers
Journalists teeing off on bloggers for being a bunch if intemperate, factually challenged posers is nothing new. But the latest in that genre of screeds penned by Michael Skube at…...
Sunday, August 19, 2007
Rudy Giuliani Changes His Wikipedia Page
Update: It turns out that the article I linked below was satire. That’s what I get for not reading the fine print at the bottom. But, I think my point…...
Monday, August 06, 2007
Bloggers Unionizing?
I don’t get it. In a move that might make some people scratch their heads, a loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together to form a…...
Saturday, August 04, 2007
NBC Reporter Goes Undercover At Hacker Convention, Gets Caught
This has been in a lot of headlines just recently. I guess some hackers decided to get together and hold a conference, and NBC sent a reporter undercover to document…...
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