I'm revamping my personal Web site, and I ran across an entry from the end of May, 2003. I was drooling over a Memory Stick(tm) reader and mentioned that a 1GB reader and card would cost $900. I said, "Wow," because now, I can run down to Wally World and get a 4GB USB stick for ten or twenty bucks.
Amazing what a decade will do to prices.

I find it quite funny when I see banner ads for FastAccess DSL. "Everything's faster on our service" doesn't seem credible to me when I see it on my cable internet connection. Faster than mine? You must be on the wrong time zone. Hahahahahaha

This is good for a laugh: http://www.slate.com/id/2085668/Read more... )

Ran across a website today called Worse Than Failure. It chronicles some of the more graceless failures of technology or management. Things that would be better if the technology had simply gone belly up. Things like this, which had me laughing out loud: http:// ( Read more... )

"This promotional program takes place every year, and is promoted and sponsored by eminent personalities like the Sultan of Brunei, Bill Gate of Micro Soft and other corporate organizations."

It's official.  Spammers are, in fact, the dumbest people using the internet.

"It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance, and mystery than by facts." --Eleanor Roosevelt ( Read more... )

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It's been a busy few weeks. In fact, I haven't gotten done some things I'd hoped to do, like calling friends. A guy I know might be hiring me to write some software for him, and that software will bring royalties if he sells it to anyone else. One of my neighbors just started work at a place down in Destin, and I gave him a copy of my resume to ( Read more... )

WARNING!: Do not read while imbibing liquid. Doing so may cause damage to your computer screen ( Read more... )