CNN’s “QuickVote” polls, which they offer on their website for the public to take, are often of questionable value, or at least questionable objectivity. In light of the “Will Renault/Nissan buy a minority stake in GM?” story flying around in the press today, CNN made tonight’s QuickVote poll: “What defines an American car?” [...]

Apple and I just returned from our weekend vacation, which we spent at Disney’s Vero Beach Resort in Vero Beach, FL. Actually, we’re still there as I write this — it’s Saturday night, our final evening here, and I felt like writing an update to post when I get home. It’s mostly been [...]

I’m posting this as a reminder to myself in case I ever come across this problem again. And who knows, it might help some of you out there, too.
This evening I attempted to burn a backup image of my new notebook computer, so I could easily restore it to a “clean” state with essential software [...]

Columnist Mike Straka asks, “Why are all men in television commercials really dumb, really horny and really distracted by sporting events?” This is a good question, and one I have been asking for some years now. It seems like phone and cable companies are the worst purveyors of this shtick. They commonly [...]

I received something nice in the mail today: The Dell Latitude notebook computer I ordered last week. It’s the latest business-grade machine in Dell’s lightweight (but not ultraportable) range, recently redesigned to better compete with the IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad. I decided I needed my own notebook for portable business, something more easily transported than [...]

“Jump In My Car” — David Hasselhoff drags KITT (or some bloke’s KITT replica with Formula deep-dish wheels, anyway) along for the ride in this ridiculously campy cover of a ’70s Aussie classic — the video has to be seen to be believed.

I’ll be getting into something new here in the next few days: Podcasting. The latest trend in the world of blogging, podcasting is basically an amalgamation of the terms “iPod” and “broadcasting,” meaning an audio broadcast intended for download to a portable music playing device. This has been broadened over the years (months?) [...]

Well, the first tropical depression of the season has formed just southwest of Florida, and of course the media has siezed upon this event as A) the first sign of the apocalypse, B) an excuse to once again bring up the global warming debate, C) the perfect reason to show us pictures of New Orleans [...]

In 1997, I sat in the same high school English class as this guy and wondered what his problem was, since his third quarter grade was 55%, he carried no books and the only way you knew he was alive was when he would belch, fart or suddenly make some obnoxious comment.
I guess when you’re [...]

Microsoft released a big udpdate to the Xbox360’s operating system last night, one that adds a lot of new features, solves some issues, and probably bricks over a few security holes for good measure (although security fixes weren’t mentioned in the official release notes). The upgrade will be applied the next time you boot [...]