Elite Book
At long last, the new notebook computer that I had ordered has arrived. The HP elitebook is slim and trim and it runs Vista and the Microsoft 2007 family of software, with which I am a little bit unfamiliar. This… Continue Reading
Technology
Follow The Hypocrite’s Advice, Not His Example
I stumbled across this site today, and because it contains good tips for both increasing your fuel efficiency and for reducing the environmental impact of your car, I pass it along to you. Of course, I’ve been driving around with… Continue Reading
LoJack For Laptops
Got a notebook or laptop computer? Then you’ll want to know about this. Free from the University of Washington* is a program called Adeona, which allows you to track where your computer is being used to track the internet. So… Continue Reading
Icon Bleg
I found a tool that lets me design a “favicon,” which is that custom icon that you see in the corner of your browser and on your bookmarks page for various blogs. So I made one with the “not a… Continue Reading
Television
We’ve got a TV in the hotel room here in Waukesha. It’s strange to have the TV at all. And then, we don’t have as much control over what it does as we would like. We have to watch what… Continue Reading
The Abundant World
Via Long Tail, a reminder of an interesting quote from Lewis Strauss, the former head of the Atomic Energy Commission: It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to… Continue Reading
Why John McCain Doesn’t Need To Know How To Use E-Mail
C-SPAN brings you the following real-time transcript of debate of the floor of the United States House of Representatives that theoretically could take place on September 12, 2009: Congressman 1 (R-FL): “Madam Speaker, This tax reform bill is bad for… Continue Reading
The Great National Terror Of Pornography Continues
Once again, our great national fear of pornography manifests itself. That guy sitting ahead of you who paid good money to use wi-fi provided on board an airplane might surf a porn site. Forgive me if I seem blasé about… Continue Reading
Long Or Short On Policy?
Steve Benen takes the Associated Press’s reporter Charles Babbington to task for calling Obama’s acceptance speech sketchy on the details of the policies Obama would pursue as President: Babbington: ‘Barack Obama, whose campaign theme is “change we can believe in,”… Continue Reading
Iranian Satellite Launch
In theory, Iran is under enough international economic sanctions that no one should be selling them any kind of advanced rocketry equipment. Which isn’t going to stop them from developing their own, and that’s what they’re claiming they’ve done —… Continue Reading