Archive for March, 2007

LinuxMCE — the new Media Center PC

Saturday, March 31st, 2007 Posted in Entertainment, Linux, Movies, Technology, Ubuntu | No Comments »

I stumbled across LinuxMCE, a free competitor to Windows Media Center Edition. LinuxMCE does what WinMCE does except it does much, much more. The features included in LinuxMCE go ... Read more..

Stealing from the government

Thursday, March 29th, 2007 Posted in Rant, Society | 7 Comments »

A quote from Benjamin Franklin sparked my curiosity on the amount of people who feel it's OK to "steal" from the government. There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise ... Read more..

I need to enter rehab

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 Posted in Entertainment, Family, Personal, Society | No Comments »

It seems as if entering rehab is the cool thing to do these days. And it's not just for drug/alcohol addiction anymore. Mel Gibson entered rehab for his ... Read more..

The Air Car

Tuesday, March 27th, 2007 Posted in New Technology, Science, Society, Technology | 3 Comments »

Back in the good 'ol days when my brother Dave used to torture me for fun. He also had some good ideas. One such idea was to build a ... Read more..

A new desktop environment… Mozilla

Monday, March 26th, 2007 Posted in Business, Computers, Internet, Linux, New Technology, Technology, Web Development | No Comments »

Almost everyone has heard of Mozilla. The Mozilla organization is the descendant of Netscape and is the producer of Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird. One of the little ... Read more..

Novell parody commercials

Sunday, March 25th, 2007 Posted in Internet, Linux, Technology | No Comments »

So almost everyone has seen the set of Apple commercials portraying a hip and friendly guy named Mac and a stuffy, geeky and very business oriented guy named Windows. ... Read more..

Making money count

Saturday, March 24th, 2007 Posted in Business, Rant, Society | No Comments »

You know the saying...  in order to make money, you have to have money.  It refers mostly to making money in real estate and the stock market.  But Japanese billionaire ... Read more..

Terabyte of data on a DVD.. is it possible?

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 Posted in New Technology, Science, Technology | No Comments »

Mempile, a company out of Israel wants to build a DVD that will hold one terabyte of data on a single disk. That's the equivalent of 200 normal DVDs ... Read more..

Global Warming Revisited - Inconvenient Truth or Swindle

Thursday, March 15th, 2007 Posted in Orson Scott Card, Politics, Rant, Science, Society | 6 Comments »

Some of you may remember a previous post on global warming. In recent weeks I've seen an enhanced interest in climate change and have experienced some additional arguments against ... Read more..

P. J. O’Rourke Quote

Thursday, March 15th, 2007 Posted in Politics, Rant | No Comments »

Sometimes, incredibly profound things are said: When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. Now if we could just get the legislators ... Read more..