Seriously trivial thoughts
Well after reading the rather poor reviews of the Thanko Silent Mouse on the Net, I was a little leary about getting the Buffalo Silent mouse. However, after using it for most of the day, it seems to be a quality product. It’s smaller than you might expect, prolly 3/4 size of a std mouse. …
Wow! This is huge! According to an article in USA Today, you’ll soon be able to buy downloadable movies from walmart.com. “New releases will be available at www.walmart.com/videodownloads on the same day they come out on DVD and will cost up to $19.88. Older films will go for up to $9.88.” “TV episodes will be …
I FINALLY found the (near) perfect MP3 player to listen to podcasts: The RIO Forge 512. The feature you really need is bookmarks. The podcasts I listen to range from 20 minutes to a couple hours. Some are weekly and some are daily. If you are bouncing between different ones, you don’t really want to …
With all of the innovation-handcuffing going on these days with DRM (digital rights management), it’s great that the government is actually doing something to benefit the consumer. This year, cable companies will be forced to open their systems to outside parties. Just like you don’t need to buy/rent your phone from the phone company anymore, …
Well after 6 months of using a “virtual” dedicated server, I have moved all my sites to a real dedicated server. The problem with the virtual type is that although they look like you are running on your own machine, in reality, you are sharing CPU and memory with whomever else is running virtual servers …
I’ve never done this before, but then I’ve never had something like offbe.at before either…well I guess I had dougworld.com, but that was much less fluid. Anyways, without further ado and in no particular order here are my 2007 predictions… Housing market will continue to decline with flat sales and declining values. In other words, …
This has got to be one of the stupidist things are so-called legal system has done. According the the WSJ, “Strippers in Alabama have brokered a deal with the state to comply with one of the strictest anti-nudity laws in the U.S. Under a settlement between 18 adult nightclubs and the Alabama attorney general’s office, …
I finally decided to try out a subscription music service after reading about them in PC Mag. The one they recommended was good ol Napster.com. They have a nice 7-day trial, but it only took me a few hours to pony up the paltry $15/mo for the service that also allows you to put songs …
On a recent c|net Buzz Out Load podcast, they were joking about some app and they used the phrase “crapplication.” Well, I thought it was funny and being the domain name packr.at I am (yes, that is my domain too ;-), I registered crapplications.com. Quite frankly, I am very surprised it was available. Basically, it’s …
USAToday has a nice article on Andrew Bynum and Kwame Brown. They are FINALLY getting some recognition. From the moment I saw Bynum play, I knew he had something special. I felt the same way about Kobe. Hopefully, I'll be 2 for 2. Drew just has a nice touch around the basket and never gives …