Mikael Blomkvist, a once-respected financial journalist, watches his professional life rapidly crumble around him. Prospects appear bleak until an unexpected (and unsettling) offer to resurrect his name is extended by an old-school titan of Swedish industry. The catch – and there’s always a catch – is that Blomkvist must first spend a year researching a …
It’s that time of year again! The Ides of March have just passed which means it’s time for me and my brother to head out to Arizona and take in some Cactus League baseball.
The human, Louis Wu; the puppeteer known as the Hindmost; Acolyte, son of the Kzin called Chmeee . . . legendary beings brought together once again in the defense of the Ringworld. Something is going on with the Protectors. Incoming spacecraft are being destroyed before they can reach the Ringworld. Vampires are massing. And the …
The original MacBook Air confused the TSA when it was introduced two years ago. Now, CNN is reporting that the TSA has cleared the new MacBook Air so you don’t have to take it out of your bag for screening: Apple may wish to avoid comparisons of the MacBook Air to similarly compact but underpowered …
About a month ago I got a 16gb (WiFi only) Apple iPad from work so I’ve had about 30 days to mess around with Apple’s “magical” tablet. If I had to sum the iPad up in one word? Slick. I’m not going to bother with the specs, or a general overview of the iPad here. It’s …
October 10, 2010 – 10/10/10 In addition to my little sister celebrating her 30th birthday (10 + 10 + 10 = 30, much cooler than my binary birthdays!) lots of other stuff is going on today, mainly: the answer to life, the universe, and everything! the new GreenPois0n jailbreak for iOS 4.1 was supposed to …
I’m currently sitting in the Jury Selection room of the Pinellas County Criminal Justice Center waiting to be selected for jury duty. There’s no cell reception in here, but at least there’s free WiFi so I can surf the web on my EeePC while I’m waiting. In a timely coincidence, just yesterday I was listening …
I couldn’t resist any longer: the recent exceptions added to the DMCA for jailbreaking allowed for the return of jailbreakme.com, the easiest way yet to jailbreak your iPhone. Just about every podcast I listen to/watch had talked about this and demoed it live so I figured what the heck? I made a full backup of …
Another piece of tech I implemented before we went on our vacation roadtrip was a series of TRENDnet wireless internet cameras so we could keep an eye on the house while we were away.
My Dell OptiPlex Linux server was getting louder and hotter in its old age. For the past three years it has been running 24×7 as my media server in the closet. The fan in the power supply had started to whine (especially when the CPU was maxed), and I already lost one hard drive to …