October 2004

So I’ve spent the better part of the past two days working with my Nokia 9290. I’ve spent a few hours on the phone with both T-Mobile and Nokia, trying to solve my technical problems. After achieving on first name familiarity with Level 5 technician Christine at T-mobile she was able to reproduce my problem [...]

Legendary actor William Shatner, who is best known for his portrayal of Captain Kirk on Star Trek, has put up $210,000 to be among the first people to fly into space on the newly formed Virgin Galatic division, of Richard Branson’s Virgin Empire (news story). If you’re out of the loop about people traveling into [...]

For those of you few remaining internet purists out there, your numbers are dwindling. My buddy Caliburn has now surrendered to the blog side, Caliburn’s Blog.

Not content to invade your personal computer, rumor has Google is working on a browser and IM client. Despite the fact that Google denies this (news) they did register the domain gbrowser.com earlier this year. Additionally Google current rumors have people at the plex hard at work on an IM client (news). They already own [...]

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.
The moral:
It doesn’t matter if you [...]

Need a special gift for that computer geek on your list who has everything? I’ll bet they don’t have a USB flash memory shaped like sushi do they?

This comes from akiba.sorobangeeks.com but good luck ordering them as the website is in Japanese. You can find more cool stuff like this from Gizmodo the gadgets weblog.
Oh [...]

If you’ve read any of my baseball posts (game winning ball, my first baseball game, my last baseball game) you’ll know that I’m not a big baseball fan. However when I was a young boy I was a big fan of the New York Yankees, which always makes October a great time to watch TV. [...]

This is an audio presentation from John Markoff of the New York Times on threats Google will face from competitors like Microsoft and Yahoo.
Audio Presentation

Continued from (my first baseball game)
So 5 to 6 years have passed since my game winning ball story. I’m no longer a runt, I’m now an average size skinny little kid who can run pretty fast. Perhaps the most important change is I know where glasses. Yes it makes me look like more of a [...]