Seriously trivial thoughts
Spent on hour on the phone with Time Warner regarding a new modem that they sent me. A letter that came with the unit says “Your new modem will be activated automatically Friday, May 2, 2008.” I read that to mean that my modem's MAC address has been set up in their system. The tech …
US Airways charged me $50 to take my 14 year old daughter to the gate at LAX! Man. I think the plane ticket was $100. That's a bit excessive.
My 2008 Predictions Housing will not recover in 2008. Gasoline will be $4/gallon and stay there. Oil will stay over $100 barrel for most of the year. The market will take a huge hit, but bounce back by year end. Republicans will somehow hang onto White House. Lakers will make it the conference finals. Foreclosures …
It's a love/hate deal whenever I take a technology class to keep up with my CPA continuing education. Yesterday, I took a “researching questions on the Internet” class. When typing in an URL like blog.mydomainname.com, she says that you have to type “HTTP://” first to get to the “Other Internet”. HAHAHA! What's worse is that …
The LA Times has an interesting article that supports my theory that there is going to be big trouble when the TV broadcasters switch to digital only on February 18, 2009 (coincidentally, my birthday :-), just 18 short months from now. “”I think there's high potential for a train wreck here,” Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) …
The resemblance is uncanny IMHO DL.TV’s Robert Heron Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson)
According to this article, “scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious ‘colony collapse’ of bees.” Now this is terrible and all since bees are the primary pollinators of the world. So without them plants would die and so would all animal life. However, that catastrophe aside, I was thinking of the practical …
USA Today is reporting that “daylight saving time switch hasn’t cut energy use“. My previous blog entitled Changing daylight savings was a bone-head move seems to be well justified, huh? Two things bother me about the article. One, it says, “That may come as no surprise to the Energy Department, which last year predicted modest …
There is a precedent where a major technology push died and no format won: quadraphonic stereo. This was introduced in the 70s I think. Basically, it was four-channel stereo, but there were at least three different formats. You had to buy incompatible discs for each, plus special amps, tuner and of course extra speakers–sound familiar? …
I just gotta get this off my chest. How stoopid and shortsighted is our government? I can’t believe they didn’t thoroughly think through the implications of changing daylight savings time. It’s like adding a 13th month! It just shows how far behind the people are that run our country are. 20 years ago, maybe, its …