I have a 90 minute commute to work and about an hour of that is on the train. To make my ride more entertaining, I use my iPhone to listen to music, browse the web, and read up on my RSS feeds with Google Reader. Google Reader is OK but it’s a web page based [...]
Upcoming 2011 video games
I’ve been waiting for the next installment of Crysis to come out but have recently gone back to playing some F.E.A.R. via Steam. Looks like F.E.A.R. 3 will be a worthwhile game. When the first game came out, the horror factor was so well done that some scenes scared the jeebies out of me. Even [...]
Opensource is still the best
As part of my ongoing home IT challenges I have set up a basement server running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. My normal method of managing my servers is to do everything by ssh. That’s geeky, but not much fun. So I looked for a free X server and came across Xming. It’s a not GPL’ed but [...]
The Onion is so wrong, yet so funny
Words just fail me. This is so funny that I almost feel guilty. Very well produced.
Really good Road Runner
And not the Time Warner Cable kind either. I can’t tell if this is legit, but I can tell that it’s very good. Update: It’s not legit.
Light bulb! moment with FIOS
Every now and then I recall the words that one of my friends always asked when we were doing some work. “Right. What are you trying to accomplish exactly?” I had migrated a while back from Optimum Online to FIOS and put my new cable model where the old one was in the basement. I [...]
My subconscious at work?
I’m beginning to believe my subconscious has developed super powers. I am jonesing for a new smart phone that works better than my antiquated iPhone 3G. Given the age of my phone that’s not a tall order. To help me in that direction, my subconscious has disabled the ability of my phone to vibrate when [...]
