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Quick & Dirty URL Shortener 1 Sep 2010 | 02:53 am
I’ve been wanting to develop a quick and dirty URL shortener for my own use for quite some time now, but never found the time or focus. Then, this morning I stumbled across a blog entry by Barrett Ly...
My Favorite iPad Apps – An Update 26 Aug 2010 | 09:31 pm
Two weeks ago I published a list of my favorite iPad apps and several folks commented on my list and provided some of their own favorites. Since then my opinion has changed a bit on what I wrote up b...
Will Plug-n-Play Solar Power Be Possible? 24 Aug 2010 | 03:03 pm
I live in a very sunny part of the world, where utility costs are outrageously high. While it would be possible to switch over to a blend of solar and wind power entirely, that’s a huge investment – I...
When QWERTY is Really QOneWTwoEThree Etc. 22 Aug 2010 | 07:01 am
I have really enjoyed my T-Mobile G1 phone, the first phone on the market featuring Google’s Android operating environment. And I was a big fan of the Sidekick series before T-Mobile and Microsoft scr...
Hulu Plus Is a Minus 16 Aug 2010 | 11:07 am
I have grown weary of broadcast television. I’m not sure exactly when it started, but I think the realization that a one-hour TV program contained about 18 minutes of advertising might have been a con...
My Favorite iPad Apps 13 Aug 2010 | 12:02 am
As promised, here’s a list of my favorite iPad applications so far. I’m up to eleven since I wrote my initial iPad post, though, so I guess this is a Top Eleven list. 1. Kindle (free). Allows me to r...
iPad Annoyances 12 Aug 2010 | 12:03 am
In my previous post, I described my appreciation for the Apple iPad. In this post I’ll address the top ten things that annoy me about the iPad. And there are a large number of things that annoy me abo...
I Have Drunk The iPad Kool-Aid, And I Like It 9 Aug 2010 | 05:17 am
I finally succumbed and bought myself an Apple iPad a couple of weeks ago. I had told myself that I would resist until such time as Adobe Flash-based web sites could be properly viewed on the iPad, bu...
Not So Smart Advice On What Not to Buy in 2010 From SmartMoney 21 Jan 2010 | 06:29 am
I just came across an article on the MSN SmartMoney web site about 10 Things Not to Buy in 2010, and while some of the items discussed are ones I would agree with in principal, I think the authors at ...
Windows 7 Security and Mapped or Network Drives 12 Jan 2010 | 08:06 am
I’ve been running Windows 7 for a couple of months now, and while I am quite happy with this version of Windows (in contrast to Vista, which I found to be agony). However, I have had one repeated anno...
