Craig’s List does it again. I just sold my 1979 Yamaha XT 500 in less than 24 hours. That was amazing. I read recently that the combination of eBay and Craig’s List is putting newspaper classifieds out of business, which is the main revenue source for many newspapers. With results like this, for less money, […]
Read MoreToday, I got cable T.V. I’ve never had it before, and as I write this, I am watching a boxing match. Today, my car got fixed and received a clean bill of health. Today, I got a 3M down channel by replacing my DSL with a cable modem. Today, I got one thread in my […]
Read MoreI have a good friend who describes mainstream media as Koolaid. The goal of all media executives to be getting us lemmings to drink the Koolaid, ala Jim Jones and his Guiana punch. I fundamentally and vocally agree with my friend. T.V. in particular is essentially evil. I just ordered cable. I am so ashamed. […]
Read MoreI recently traded my Dell Latitude D810 for a Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet PC. I have never used a tablet PC, but after watching someone proficiently take notes with ink in a meeting, I couldn’t resist trying a tablet. I have been using the tablet exclusively for about 3 days. So far I am quite […]
Read MoreUsing SharpKeys, from RandyRants.com, I just mapped my Caps Lock key to be another Tab key. This is actuially pretty handy for use on my new tablet. The keyboard buttons are significantly smaller than my old laptop keys. I tend to fat finger the Alt+Tab a lot. This is flippin’ awesome. Has anyone ever found […]
Read MoreI just help but thinking that the earth has tilted on its’ axis. Monad has 2 extremely unimportant, but highly striking features that I just have to mention. You might think that I would have something The ls command is supported. Specifically, ls == dir. Who would have thunk it? I don’t know if it […]
Read MoreI first saw Billy Hollis‘ Dirty Checker Control at VS Live in Las Vegas about a year ago. Once in a while I run across a dead simple tool that just makes coding simpler and this is definitely one of those controls. I have used to on most Win Forms apps that I have built […]
Read MoreTechnology is great. For instance, this little device, the Dog Dazer. My next door neighbor did the great favor of building their dog kennel next to my garage and driveway so that each time I exit my home, their untrained Labrador barks his head off at me (not to mention my children). This has become […]
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