Posts under ‘Tech’

Got a website? Nobody cares. The new big question appears to be “Do you have a MySpace page?”
That drives me nuts, because MySpace is a clunky, ugly monstrosity overloaded with obnoxious ads. When asked about MySpace, I still call it the Mos Eisley of the Internet. But enough people asked me if I had a [...]

A cancer researcher recently discovered he can burn saltwater and potentially use its energy to drive an engine. As seen in this news footage, he uses radio waves to separate hydrogen from the salt water, then simply uses a spark to ignite the hydrogen. It reminds me somewhat of the Brown’s Gas energy debate, but [...]

Canonical, the folks behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, claim Dell is doing well enough with their Linux machines that they are going to expand their offerings to include more systems.
Are you sure Linux isn’t ready for the desktop?

Lifehacker posted a quote from Nietzsche today:
“All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.”
While I subscribe to a lot of Nietzsche’s philosophy, I have to disagree slightly: obviously the man never tried solving a problem in the shower. (Or, as with Archimedes, the bathtub.)
I can’t count the number of times I’ve been standing in the [...]

Google Maps has a host of new features, including two I’ve been wanting for a long, long time from any of the map services: being able to change your route and adding waypoints.
There have been many times I’ve looked at a map route and decided I could make better time going around a portion of [...]

That’s It?
Originally uploaded by MikeOliveri.

Yesterday was Break Day at my karate dojo, and I took several pictures while my son and our classmates broke their boards. Despite the difficulties associated with a point-and-shoot digital camera, I caught a few great shots and I’ll be sharing them with our sensei and some of the other students.
As [...]

A while back I took a dump on Twitter, the service that answers “What are you doing?” as often as you want to update it. I stand by those comments because it can easily spiral into exactly what I said, and I’m sure there’s a lot of navel-gazing and jerk-off posts on there. For example, [...]

A recent cellular bill included a little card from Google with some simple instructions for using the new (beta, of course) Google SMS features. At first I didn’t think much of it and lost the card in all the other crap on my desk.
Just now I dug it out and took a closer look.
Holy crap, [...]

Lifehacker today had a link to this article about fixing 11 different problems that plague laptop users. They address common problems from batteries not holding charges (the solution: replacement - durr) to hard drive crashes and overheating. Not a bad little reference, especially given I receive questions about things like this from time to time.
Of [...]

A group of chiefs from the Manitoba First Nations is demanding compensation for cellular signals passing through tribal lands. They say their air is a resource, just like land and water.
I think they need to be careful what they’re asking for. The cellular beancounters might decide it would be cheaper to build a giant Faraday [...]