Subtitle: It must be tough to be “venerable” on the internet.
Wired.com just launched a new look about, oh, within the past hour or so. Well, that’s not quite true. They’ve been fiddling with the look for a couple of months, but that’s mostly applied to the internal page layouts. They just flipped […]
Subtitle: Blowing up a building Vegas style.
I’ve only ever been to Vegas once, and really, it’s not my kind of town. I spent exactly one night on “the strip,” then a week crashing around in the desert with a friend and his 4×4. We’d make a game of getting “lost” in the […]
This is pretty spiffy.
I’ve been following the trials and tribulations of the One Laptop Per Child project for some time now. It’s a really neat idea cooked up by some of the hardcore propeller heads over at MIT.
It’s a highly noble venture. Basically, it boils down to creating a durable little laptop that […]
Subtitle: First Dell asked what their customers wanted, but will they listen to the answer?
Dell has been running a “suggestion box” on their company website for the past three weeks.
Clocking in at over 100,000 requests, take a wild guess at what the top suggestion from Dell’s customers was?
If your answer was “offer Linux as […]
Subtitle: I suspect Vista will become the new bane of my existence.
This one is for the designated “tech guru” in any circle of friends/family. Bear with me while I give a bit of backstory.
About a year and a half ago a friend brought me their defunct PC and asked if I could get it […]