Archive for the Rant! Category
- Can You Find Me On The Internet? Of Course You Can! - August 3rd, 2007
- DWD — Driving While Distracted - July 5th, 2007
- What is it With Cables? - June 15th, 2007
- Drug Problem - May 17th, 2007
- Yet Another Reason I Hate Microsoft - May 15th, 2007
- As If the RIAA Weren’t Bad Enough … - April 17th, 2007
- Why Children Are Obese… - March 20th, 2007
- Aw, CRAP! - March 4th, 2007
- Whatever Happened to Simple CD Players? - February 21st, 2007
- ASK FIRST, DAMMIT! - January 31st, 2007
Donna sent me a link to this article on the Time/CNN web site a little while ago. Go read the article now, and then come back to the rest of this post.
Well, lessee, “Spock” is not officially open for business yet — still in “invitation only beta,” which means they have to come to you [...]
USAToday.com is running a story today on legislation that lawmakers are trying to get passed to limit the electronic gadgets that drivers can play with while driving. This is all well and good, but, frankly, doesn’t address any real problem.
Sure, drivers are distracted. I see it all the time. People yammer away on their [...]
I went over to that big box store that’s all blue with the yellow price-tag-shaped sign today, with the idea of buying a DVD Recorder. What I really want is something that will record either a true DV digital signal, or at least component. However, that’ll cost me a grand or more, and that’s just [...]
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The other day, someone at a store in our town read that a Methamphetamine lab had been found in an old farmhouse in the adjoining county and he asked me a rhetorical question.
“Why didn’t we have a drug problem when you and I were growing up?”
I replied, “I had a drug problem when I [...]
Microsoft claims patents on Linux kernel
This is bordering on insanity. If Micro$oft is allowed by the courts to proceed in matters such as this, it will be opening the door to legalizing monopolies, and encourage stifling innovation. Micro$oft really wants to completely own the computer software market, forcing consumers to buy computers that run only [...]
It seems that the RIAA hasn’t been able to exert enough power to control what we listen to, and how we get to listen to it. Now, the record companies have, through the “Copyright Royalty Board,” chosen to charge non-traditional broadcasters (meaning, anything other than standard over-the-air AM and FM radio stations) increased royalties — [...]
Today, on the way home from GTV, I saw something that made my jaw drop. Soccer mom pulled out of the elementary school parking lot, presumably having just picked up ankle-biter-brat from school. She then drove about 300 yards and pulled into a driveway, whereupon the whole crew spilled out of the soccer-mom-mobile. And this [...]
SciFi finally gets it together, and gives us what looks like a decent Battlestar episode, and Comcast takes a shit! Frak!
UPDATE: Just before midnight, Comcrap got their act back together enough for us to see the midnight showing. Thanks to Rob, I’ll still be able to get a DVD burn, though. Thanks, Rob!
Post Revisions:There are [...]
I need a simple CD player. Nothing fancy, just play a single CD (either CD audio or MP3), with controls for play/pause, stop, skip forward, skip reverse and eject on the front of the unit. And, it needs a display that will show either count-up or count-down. Repeat play would be nice, but not essential. [...]
While I’m flattered that Ryan Singel of Wired News Blogs liked my picture of the court house in Fall River, MA enough to use it on their blog the other day. And, I’m happy that he attributed the photograph to me, in accordance with the Creative Commons license under which it was posted to flickr.
However, it’s [...]
