This is the second time I’ve written this post.  The first time, I started to go into a huge explanation so that everyone could understand this idea before realizing that anyone who didn’t already understand the issues had a 0% chance of caring about the idea anyway.  So if you don’t know what I’m talking about, then this post is not for you. With all the hype/concern/backlash/misinformation-fueled legislation in the world around cookies and their [...]

Often times, I sit down in the evening and wonder what I should watch.  I have a Netflix subscription, I can buy stuff Video on Demand from Amazon or from Apple.  Of course there’s access to Hulu and none of those is good enough, you can try Vudu or Crackle.  Or maybe I just want to watch something that I already own.  But I want to watch something funny with George Clooney in it.  Or [...]

Today, I setup a couple of WordPress plugins for automatically posting blog links to Facebook and Twitter. WP to Twitter The first is WP to Twitter.  Instructions are pretty straightforward for creating a Twitter app for integration.  Small hitch was that after creating my Access Token I had to reload the page in order for the access tokens to actually show up.  Now whenever I create a new post, it will post a Tweet using [...]

This idea stems from a recent article I read about global warming in which Bob Lutz (big car guy formerly of GM, Chrysler, Ford, and BMW) insists that it’s a bunch of garbage and a scientist named Neil deGrasse Tyson tells him he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. But Bob Lutz is not the only guy that insists it’s hokey, and Neil Tyson is not the only one saying it’s not.  From what I can tell, [...]

The Motorola Atrix Laptop Dock orginally debuted at a price of $500 a little less than a year ago.  Disappointing sales figures led to discounts and today you can now get them on AT&T’s site for 1/10 of that price. But it is my opinion that this is a spectacular idea that simply failed in execution.  This is the future of computing.  One device to rule them all.  Imagine the following scenarios: On the way to work, [...]