Apple has proven, time and time again, that it is not shy about dragging its competitors before the ITC over patent disputes. And, while its fellow smartphone makers have never held back from defending themselves, HTC’s general counsel Grace Lei had so…

Verizon has already started cutting down on tethering by removing apps from the Android Market, but today they took a much bigger step by releasing an update for the HTC Thunderbolt that blocks it from…

I went to Lowes last week to pick up a piece of countertop for a project and snapped this photo of how it ended up loaded in my car.  The countertop is 6 feet long and 24″ wide, but I was pretty sure it would fit in my Jetta. Since it was raining when I [...]

Some photos from our 2011 trip to northern Europe. Becky would have you believe that this is about the speed at which these photos ought to be shown

This is really just an excuse to play with Pummelvision (http://pummelvision.com/)

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My friend James sent me this quick (less than 4 minute) talk from TED earlier this week, saying that it “sounded like me”.  I was sort of skeptical at first, assuming that James was trying to relate me to some self-help guy, but after watching the video, I totally agree.  The speaker’s basic premise is [...]

Since I started lifting weights (a few times a week for just 10 or 15 minutes at a time), I found that it’s far more convenient to do at home than at the gym (or at least, I like having that option).  I initially priced a 35# kettlebell and found the cost to be outrageous [...]

south koreans can do their grocery shopping while waiting for the subway at a virtual supermarket opened by tesco homeplus, that lets users scan the QR codes of desired products, which are then delivered to their home within the day.read more

For a while now, I’ve been using KVM on my Ubuntu server for all sorts of things.  Once I got it running, it was really quite slick.  This post, however, isn’t about the merits of KVM as a virtualization platform. One of my virtual PCs is a Windows XP Home instance which I use when [...]

Sorry for the pun; I was just goin’ with the flow…  Anyhow, I was looking at some online hydrograph charts to see how deep the River was getting, and noticed that the URL of the graphic itself had some interesting parameters in the title, including the name of the Omaha Gage (OMHN1) and also a [...]