It’s times like these that people have the tendency to turn to snake oil for medicine rather than focus on true science. I’ve seen a lot of uninformed crap in the news about alternative energy sources since the recent world events have driven oil prices so high. I wonder though why some of the more […]

“This is Flight 10 to Tower, we’ve got a primary reverse oil pump malfunction light. Standby.”
“Acknowledged. Standing by.”
“Proceeding with emergency checklist.”
“The primary oil pump for the reverse thruster is out. Does that mean anything else for us?”
“Ummm. No, I don’t think so. The only issue will be reverse on the ground. But it could be […]

Well, it’s finally official. Skype is now blocked all over Dubai. There have been some conflicting reports over the last week or so. Because my article about how to get Skype working in Dubai (skype.com has long been blocked, but if you get the software and find a way to top up your account with […]

For the dozen of you that don’t know what “net neutrality” is or the ridiculous debate currently going on in Congress, let me sum it up for you. Big telecoms and cable companies want the ability to charge more money to big companies to provide more bandwidth for them to deliver bigger and bigger files […]

NASA’s J-Track 3D is a little Java applet where you can see real-time, 900 satellites’ positions around the globe. Pretty tiny little dots to click, but pretty cool. I’ve never been a real space-nerd type, but this is very interesting. Just seeing the density of machinery out there is amazing, and a bit scary. Talk […]

I bought a MacBook Pro about three weeks ago.
I haven’t had any major issues with it (none close to what I’ve been reading, anyway), and I’ve been quite happy with it so far.
I’ve been reading a lot about the MacBook Pro and everyone’s complaints about heat/noise/etc., keeping a good eye on the developments.
I love […]

I submitting the following technical support question to Maxtor (the hard drive people) just a few minutes ago via a very hard to find contact form on their website. They have the worst website I have ever been on, and I look at shit websites for a living. My question from yesterday simply vanished, so […]

Up all night… long story. Wrote this.
For years and years I searched for a decent backup software for Mac. Because I was never able to find anything that did what I wanted it to do (I’ll explain in a second) I mostly backed up manually, and very infrequently. This is a bad, bad practice. You […]

iAlertU is a sweet, sweet, (though mostly useless) application for use on motion sensor enabled MacBook Pros, that simply adds a cool motion detector alarm system. Once activated, if somebody moves the MacBook, a screeching alarm sounds. Before watching the video below, I hoped to myself that the developer would have had the inspiration to […]

I’ve owned an aluminum Powerbook G4 for some time now. I traded in my Titanium in February of ‘04. For the most part, it has been an incredible machine, and still performs very, very well.
Two weeks before I left for Dubai, my Airport card just stopped working. It stopped showing up in the control panel […]

Robot wrestling has come a long way. We are not very far away from real-life Voltron, I am confident.

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As you may or may not know, US cellphone carriers are running a huge scam on you. The valuable phone hardware that you buy from them, at a discount sometimes but offset by enormous contractual service agreements, is locked via software so that it cannot be used with another service. This, of course, is outrageous, […]