Headline on CNN just now: “What if a hurricane hits… gas skyrockets to $10 a gallon and everything collapses? CNN investigates tonight, 8 ET.” I dunno…I’ll shoot myself? The media in this country is enough to inspire suicide as it is.

OK, so the PlayStation 3’s raison d’être — Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots — has finally been released, bringing the legendary Metal Gear franchise to a close. As I started to read the reviews of the latest installment, I remembered way back in 1998 when I bought Metal Gear Solid at [...]

I complained about their mishandling of my TiVo’s CableCARDs, but I can’t fault them for this. In fact, I can only thank them — profusely. Comcast has upgraded all broadband customers to 1 megabit upload (if you were on the 6/384 tier, like me), or 2 megabits (if you were on the 8/768 [...]

Thanks to my mom, a copy of Grand Theft Auto IV for the Xbox 360 was already waiting for me on my desk chair when Apple and I returned from Thailand. Although I’ve ramped up my side work to near epic proportions since coming home, I’ve carved out some spare hours during evenings and [...]

During my last trip out in the GTO, I realized that it’s been months since I actually changed the CDs in the car’s 6-disc changer deck. As if to prove the point, when I cycled through the discs to see what was what, I found half of the catalog was still left over from [...]

Over the last week, during which I have been extremely busy working with Windows night and day, I have repeatedly had the feeling that certain portions of this OS were designed by a bunch of toads.
I just did a search for some work-related files I haven’t used in a long time, because I need them [...]

Following our trip to Thailand, we’ve been back in the U.S. now for just over a week. It seems like much longer. Not that I’m surprised; the first full week of work after a wholesale change of environment like that always seems a little drawn-out. But this time…I don’t know. You [...]