I’ve been reading Slashdot since around 2001 in one way or another, but am finally putting it down.  With the advent of RSS feeds, I was using Slashdot as a “general interest tech news” source, to complement my more focused news sites.  Most recently, my biggest complaint about it was the duplication of posts and [...]

I recently had a need   for a USB wireless network dongle, and from past experience, determined that I wanted a “Somewhat Name Brand” model.  (There was an incident with a no-name Wireless-G Cardbus unit, driver issues).  I found that I should expect to pay around $30 for a Dlink or Linksys or something from [...]

Love him or hate him, Tim Ferris (author of the Four Hour Work-Week) has some pretty unique ideas on business, life and finance.  Generally, his ideas involve throwing away the societal norms, and experimenting with things.  Reinventing the system, if you will.   For example, he once won a kickboxing title by finding a way [...]

Technically coming back, actually, at about 10pm last night… Becky and I recently spent a “6-day weekend” on San Francisco, where she was attending a food blogger get-together.   We also did the usual touristy things, as we’d never been there:  Biked across the Bridge, went to Ghirardelli  Square, toured Alcatraz, visited Fishermans’  Wharf, Chinatown and [...]

Tonight, at the Omaha Maker Group meeting, Nick gave a brief presentation on Android development, as it related to a clock-reading application that he is developing.  As some of you may know,  I have also been learning enough Java to play with Android development for the purposes of building Pi Trainer for piday.org.  Anyhow, Nick [...]

To make a long story shorter, I was in Lincoln one February helping my brother out and threw a check engine light while running around town. The car seemed to lose power dramatically at higher RPM and was shifting funny. I assumed that there was some kind of vacuum leak going on, so I brought [...]

Be warned, this is yet another popular article that is being reposted.  Lots of my TDI-related articles seem to do well, and with winter upon us, I’ll be reposting the ones that seem related to cold weather. In January 2008, I was driving to Lincoln. It was pretty cold (maybe 20-25F) and I noticed that [...]

I’ve always known that a page posted back in 2008 “Dyson vs Bissell” was one of the most popular pages on this site, but I never cease to be amazed that people are still reading a 2.5 year old page.  Basically, the post details how Becky won said vacuum at NFM, and compared the performance [...]