Found another article where the Geek Squad is fleecing the public. While it is a laptop motherboard, let’s put this in perspective. A new laptop will cost you 600 dollars, so the repair for a laptop should not exceed the cost of replacement. To give you an idea, the labor for building my new desktop [...]
For those of you who are keeping track of my adventures at work dealing with getting PMS to communicate with TOUCH. (I swear I’m not making these names up. There’s also components called COORS and BS.) TOUCH was created around 25 years ago and has stood the test of time but still needs tweaked every [...]
Well, I finally managed to take some time and do some extra programming on my own time. The fruits of my labor can be found here. I wanted to put the Google app engine through its paces and so I played around with creating a form similar to the one that Ben Franklin used to [...]
Jess and I got a bunch of money for our wedding. We have a savings plan, etc. so we decided we were going to spend the money on stuff we wanted, rather than needed. We bought our new couch, which was the big ticket item that she wanted and we also got iPhones. At first [...]
Every once in a while I get a feeling like I should try one of the other browsers available in OS X. I tried Safari for a while and then OmniWeb. (Which just recently became freeware.)
I have no idea why I try every year because I really just waste a lot of time trying to [...]
I have never been the one to find the best algorithm to solve a problem. That was clear last night when I started trying to solve some programming problems at Project Euler. The problem was really simple, but indicative of the difference between me and some programmers. The problem was to find the sum of [...]
I read a number of articles like this today and it’s really making me doubt whether I want to get this Iphone, as unbelieveably pretty as it is. Apple is being really petty in this particular case and really stupid. Think about it. Mac Mail competes with Mac Entourage and Thunderbird and they’re all allowed [...]
I’m playing with a business idea and I am consequently working on the requirements for the application. I started out using a program called Virtual Paradigm. It’s nice. But not great and certainly not worth the cost of an actual license. My hypothesis is that I am going to be able to do a much [...]
I am biased, so everyone will jump on me as saying that a president doesn’t have to have served in the military to be commander in chief or a senator doesn’t have to be a doctor in order to pass health care legislation can go ahead and pile on. However, I think there should be [...]
A while back, my brother on his blog wrote the following about my blog about the future of search:
http://sentientsearch.net/2008/05/05/oh-dear/
Well…some of the points he mentions are good and I happen to agree with the spirit of them. However, it’s always good to know when, as far as how search will progress and what the next step [...]
