I remember the day I lost any faith in local or national news. It wasn’t when the Colombia Space Shuttle exploded and CNN put this erroneous ‘factoid’ on the air: A few years ago I was sitting in a department head meeting when the news director piped up about a story of significant public safety…
It’s a new year and as of the first of the year every Sally-Shopper and Johnny-Bag-O-Donuts is eligible for their two free coupons good for $40 towards the purchase of a set-top DTV converter box. Too bad it’s $30 short of the retail price of the box when it becomes available in mid February… Although…
One of the cool features of the PS3 is that it is a serious computing device and Sony provided the option to easily upgrade its hard drive as well as install an alternate OS. So I did both. By far, the easiest HDD upgrade known to man (presently). Simply remove a panel and a screw.…
Today I made the plunge and finally got off the HD-DVD/Blu-Ray format fence and bought a PS3 system. There were several reasons for this; first I did NOT buy it because I love Blu-Ray. I like that it has multiple studio and vendor support as well as about 25GB storage per layer, but the hardware…
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I heard a story about a guy, not me mind you, that wanted to mod his PSP to a “homebrew” firmware which would allow him to run far more software than the lame games that were made solely for the platform. We’ll call this dashing and daring fellow “Mr. X” – kinda like Racer X…
Many, many, many projects over the years…. I certainly don’t like to sit around doing nothing (take this web site for example), but I have only recently (since about 2000) begun to memorialize the more significant events in my career through photographs and recorded details. I used to note just the major projects I was…
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Home (is where I hang my hat)….now that I’m bald and need hats! I enjoy living in new places when a new opportunity takes me someplace different every few years. At the moment my hats hang in Reno, Nevada – a town right over the Sierra Nevada Mountains next to Lake Tahoe and about a…
Well, I have moved around quite a bit so far and lived in a number of great places such as Ayer (Mass), Fayetteville (NC), San Diego, Sacramento, Las Vegas, Bend (OR), Cincinnati, San Jose, Redwood City and even the countries of Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq during my time in the Army. After serving through…