Counting the Years with Fireworks

Independence Day has a special meaning for me – it’s my birthday. Yup, a genuine Yankee Doodle Dandy. My brother too. He was born exactly a year later than me. The timing of these events seems odd, except when you consider that my father was a watchmaker at the time (he had good timing) and that his birthday preceded ours by nine months. But that’s another story. Read the rest of this entry »

iPad: iStud or iDud?

It was relatively amusing reading the early commentary on Apple’s newest hardware, the iPad. It’s as if the media was looking for something to endorse, and the iPad was in the right place at the right time, even if it was the wrong product.

Wired for example put an interesting spin on it with it’s “10 things missing from the iPad”.  For every point missing from the iPad, they rationalized it as the right thing to do anyway. Read the rest of this entry »

You are your last line of defense

“Wow!  Is that really you in this video?” the note on my Facebook page read.  It was from Jim who sometimes does send interesting links and I was curious.  “Click”.   Humm.  That’s odd.  There’s no video.  I wonder if Jim got it right?  Could he perhaps have … wait … what’s this?  I don’t think this website was suppose to … damn.  Now my browser is not working.  Fine.  Let me just restart the browser and try again.  Why won’t the browser close? Don’t tell me I have to restart the computer!  Hey, now everything is frozen.  Let me just turn the computer off and turn it back on again. … Why won’t my computer start up.  Hey, wait.  Do you think that link was a virus? Is my computer now infected?  NOOOOOOOO!
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