I’ve had my iPhone 3GS for one week now (yes, I did buy one on the first day they were available, but I didn’t wait in line for it – the AT&T store here in east-nowhere had plenty) and I’d like to share with you my impressions. Now I’m not going to go on and...

When we moved in here, we owned one television. We decided to put it upstairs in the workout room, since it’s an older, but high-quality 36″ Sony CRT, and we would probably want to get a nice big flat screen TV for the family room. This worked well enough, since, with Anne living...

There should be a handful of people out there that will get a kick out this one: I’ve figuratively banged my head against the wall for the past 20 minutes trying to figure out a coding problem that wasn’t a coding problem. After working all weekend and several night’s straight on a...

Okay, yeah – that’s not earth shattering, nor original. But dammit, I’ve really had enough already! Last night, once again, my machine wouldn’t boot up because the NTLDR got corrupted. To make matters worse, I guess I pushed the crappy western digital drive it was loaded on past its...

Somebody went and wrote (intentionally) the worst possible user interface for a video game, and it’s pretty hilarious. It’s called, simply, QWOP. I was doing OK, right up until the first hurdle: Of course, by “doing OK”, I mean I figured out how to hobble along in a...

As computer professionals, or even amateur geeks, well know, calling Tech Support can be a nightmare of “Did you plug it in” and “Have you turned it on” and on and on until you finally, after days of plodding through the front line tech’s script, you finally get...