For the first time in more than a decade Steve Jobs (CEO, Co-Founder, Visionary, and Savior of Apple Computer) will sit down with Bill Gates (Co-Founder, Legendary Geek, and Microsoft Chairman) and discuss the future of technological innovation. The discussion will be a glorious unscripted free-for-all mediated by the Wall Street Journal's Walt ( Read more... )

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Microsoft's much-touted 'iPod Killer' was released into the wild a few days ago. So far the response has been overwhelmingly negative. From the difficulty with installing the software and getting it to work. Clocking in at 60% larger, 17% heavier, and a significantly shorter battery life than the iPod sure make it an inferior product on paper, at ( Read more... )

Nintendo had stolen the pre-show press by announcing a the new (rather divisive) name for their console as the Wii. As Sony and Microsoft struggled to hype their pre-shows but the media focused entirely on the what the heck the 'Wii' thing was all about. This strategy paid off as clearly the media had its eye on what the hell Nintendo was up to ( Read more... )

Microsoft Vista
It shouldn't come as a surprise to most people that, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (of Monkey-man fame) runs his home like a police state not allowing his children to use Google or own an iPod. What is surprising is how nonchalant he is about it in a CNN Money Interview. Superior products be damned, you have to use Daddy's crappier ( Read more... )

Fears About Pixar's Quality
Many Pixar fans are concerned with how Cars appears from the teaser trailer. I would invite them to take a trip down memory lane to see that Pixar movies make for poor teasers. If that's not enough to allay your fears, Cars was recently screened to an ecstatic audience of entertainment industry folks and theater-owners ( Read more... )

D1 has once again joined civilization and has toilet paper dispensers! Last week, the school decided we needed new bathroom stalls. Sounds simple? Oh, not for Hampshire. To set up one partition and two doors took three days. Then it took four more days to install toilet paper dispensers. Holy God, this school is inept.



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Kelsey and I just got back from bowling at Northampton Bowl, it was fun despite being standard 10-pin bowling, which I only had my first experience with back in the MidWest a few years ago.

I did a lot better than I expected and was a lot better than I remembered. I want to take Kelsey Candlepin bowling when we get a chance as I think it's more ( Read more... )

The top five Windows problems:

1) Viruses.
2) Infections.
3) Spyware.
4) Trojans.
5) Adware.

What a perfect acronym for the latest from Redmond!

Sadly, I couldn't fit in awful memory management, poor device/driver handling, ugly UI, inconsistent UI, overly-dumbed down UI (Thanks for hiding the advanced and custom options as much as possible, MS ( Read more... )