Windows Vista…
Microsoft has been working on their next generation operating system, codenamed "Longhorn", for several years now. Its been delayed several times, had features stripped ... and now has been given…
Black holes, LHC, Star Wars, quantum uncertainty… if it is of general geek interest, but doesn’t fit into one of the other categories, it lands here.
Goodbye, James…
James Doohan, better known to the world as Montgomery Scott or just "Scotty", passed away on Wednesday. I actually met the man himself once, although only in passing. It was…
Gordon Kirkland
When Irene and I were at Harrison Hotsprings last weekend, we noticed a beautiful golden coloured dog laying near where some conference-type people had set up their sign-in table. We…
Another night…another bug
I'm still awake, and its 1:00 am on a work day. Why am I still up, you ask? Well, its like this. The other day I edited one of my…
ACPI and standby
My main personal computer crashed last week, as I mentioned on July 12. I managed to get everything working again, with one exception- standby mode. I had disabled all power…
Karl Rove, your conscience called…
I have this image of Karl Rove, one of George Bush's senior advisors and architect of his re-election campaign, smoking a big cigar (Cuban) and laughing at America. This is…
Pain in the neck
My back hurts. More specifically, my upper back: my doctor said something about C4-5 and C5-6, and spondylolisthesis, which sounds like a kind of fungus. The pain comes and goes,…
No Justice
I am getting tired of reading news stories about people committing violent crimes with their cars and then getting off with the judicial equivalent of a DUI conviction In this…
Google Earth is cool
A week or so ago a co-worker of mine showed me a program he was playing with- Google Earth. Its a beta, and I had heard of it before, but…
Gaming…
I got my MMOG "fix" today...several hours of monster slaying in World of Warcraft with Shane, Monique, and Bryan...that's the best kind of gaming for me. Then, a little later…