I am pretty amused by this article by Subena Suri at CNet. This teenage girl received a friend request on Facebook from an icky old 40 year old man. My first reaction to this was “Welcome to the Internet, kid.” Then I wondered if I qualify as an “icky old married guy”. [...]
As I said in a post yesterday, my brother-in-law made a political commercial in which he spoke out against Bush and out policies in Iraq. Even though he has been speaking out for six months or more, CBS decided to fire him from a role as their military consultant. There is a good [...]
This is a follow up to a few posts I made in Dec about switching to a Mac. I believe I have enough experience now to give a different perspective than I could then. My primary machine has been this Macbook Pro for five months. I can’t say I haven’t looked back [...]
Working in the Tech industry, it is hard to ignore the Windows Vista launch. I read about it whenever I come across reviews. After reading roughly 30 articles, I can say I have no desire to upgrade to Vista. Some reviewers say it is a worthy upgrade. Walt Mossberg said, “Worthy, [...]
I have always bought HP printers. I will not buy another one. Why? The HP software sucks so bad that it ruins the printer. To begin with, you have to be very careful when you insert that HP CD after you buy a printer. It will install all kinds of crapware on your PC. You [...]
There has been a lot of discussion on the A-List blogs about Microsoft giving and then ungiving a sweet Ferrari laptop loaded with Windows Vista to influential tech bloggers. Microsoft’s PR firm asked the bloggers to use Vista and wants them to write about it. If the PR firm was thinking clearly, [...]
