Hey, to anyone out there who reads this that’s still looking for something to get me for Christmas, or later for my birthday: APOCALYPTICA. This is an awesome musical group that originally started out doing classical covers of Metallica songs. I know there are more, like the Vitamin String Quartet and such, but I really…
Feeling Lost Lately
So I’ve been feeling kind of lost lately. I have been leaving this blog high and dry and I don’t mean to not keep up with it. I’ll probably be blogging a lot more during the holiday break, I’ll have about two straight weeks off of work, which I’ll probably be spending at my Mom’s…
Samuel Jackson / Mario Van Peebles 2012!
So, last night Barack Hussein Obama completely pwned John McCain in the United States of America Presidential Election. Everyone is talking about how great it is that it took our country 220+ years to get over racial barriers and elect an African-American to the Oval Office. I think it’s a great milestone, to be sure,…
Halloween ’08
Last night was a pretty good Halloween! Better than a lot I’ve had in the past. My friends & neighbors the Ellersicks hosted their annual party, and I was happy it was planned and I was invited before the IT folks got together and got out their invite. The IT crowd’s party is usually pretty…
Save Family Stories with Dragon Naturally Speaking
I don’t know if you’ve tried Dragon Naturally Speaking before – it’s come a long way since it’s inception. It used to be that you’d have to train it and retrain it and then you’d finally get a semi-working program. But by the time you got it working right, you could have just typed it…
Macs to Get Netflix Watch Instantly Access via Silverlight
As a Netflix customer, I often enjoyed being able to sign on to Netflix on my lunch break and watch TV shows from their “Watch Instantly” service. Unfortunately, I had to load it up on my virtual machine that runs XP because due to DRM restrictions, Netflix was unable to offer Mac users the service…
No Costume, DIY Skills, or Time?
Halloween is coming up on us, it’s just this Friday! You have 4 days and counting left to make sure you have secured yourself some sort of Halloween candy. Whether you’re going out on the town, going trick-or-treating with little ones, or staying at home and giving out candy, it’s always fun to dress up…
Online Matchmaking: Not Just for Unnaturally Beautiful People
If you’ve ever been on MySpace or Facebook or any number of other popular web sites with a demographic consisting of young, lonely, or otherwise non-family oriented people, you’ve probably run across True.com ads featuring some crazy attractive woman trying to talk to you in a chat window in front of her web cam, or…
Go Green With Charter and Win a Honda Civic Hybrid
Charter, the company that brings thousands of people internet, television, and phone services has a contest going on now where if you live in one of their service areas and purchase any of their services, you are automatically entered to win a new Honda Civic Hybrid worth almost $24,000. It looks to be pretty loaded:…
Tech Round-Up
There have been a lot of tech news bits and pieces that have been covered in detail elsewhere, so I won’t rehash them completely, but here’s the major announcements from the industry in the last few days: Man denies hacking Palin’s Yahoo Account – The man accused of hacking Governor and VP-hopeful Sarah Palin’s Yahoo…