Posts under ‘Tech’

Today I followed a link to this video which claims if you put acetone in your gas tank, you can almost double your gas mileage. This link explains why it works in a little more detail, and claims the acetone will not harm your engine in any way. They both agree on the mix: 2 [...]

Researchers at Purdue University have found a new process to generate hydrogen from an aluminum alloy that will make a safer and easier method for generating hydrogen to power small engines and, possibly down the road, motor vehicles. This solves the problems of distributing and storing hydrogen and even at current estimates can be a [...]

I’ve been meaning to link a Max Barry blog post for a couple weeks now — Danger: Linux Advocacy Ahead. I found out a couple years ago that Max runs Linux on his home PC and does his writing on OpenOffice.org. By then I’d already been doing the same for some time, and it gave [...]

The latest cool news out of the tech sector is Dell has reached an agreement with Canonical, the distributors of the Ubuntu Linux distribution, to provide desktop and laptop PC’s with Ubuntu preinstalled.
Depending on the cost and what the hardware availability is, I may rethink that urge to purchase an Apple MacBook Pro for my [...]

While I’m often the first to rip a company for poor tech support, there is a flipside to that: these people often have to take a lot of crap (warning — the recording is loaded with cussing). Having been on the support side of the phone for a couple years, I can assure you that [...]

I’ve seen a lot of Twitter references lately, and it’s one of those social services I just don’t get.
The idea here is a registered user puts out a notice (I think it’s called a tweet) describing what they’re doing at a given moment, and it gets posted for the rest of the world. If you [...]

Having worked in technology for nine years now, reading PC World’s “20 Most Annoying Tech Products” article was like a long list of flashbacks to spike the blood pressure. Sure, a lot of you probably dealt with these problems at home, but working for a school or an ISP meant I was also the go-to [...]

So yesterday when I talked about AppleTV I mentioned dumping DirecTV and going to all-online television — I just download the shows I want to watch and watch them at my leisure. It’s not the first time I’ve talked about doing such, and the wife and I talked about it again yesterday. She agreed that [...]

When I am filthy rich, I will own two Bugatti Veyrons. Why two? One for the wife, of course. It even makes her hard (which, as you can imagine, is not easy to accomplish). Drool the specs here.
Only $1.7 million.
Pocket change.

This letter explains exactly how/why people become alleged Internet pirates (found via John Roling).
All an artist wants to do is be read/seen/listened to. Leave it to the suits to screw that up.
I dread the day this kind of thing descends upon the publishing industry.