Rich on buying guides

Saturday, May 17th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Rich on buying guides. Useful. Me, I tend to ask Rich or Bob or Jim or Kurt or other enthusiasts I know, rather than relying on guides. ... Read more..

Cool office desk

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Milk Desk — i love well designed office furniture. I have a custom desk now that I am unhappy with because, despite massive passthrus, it just can’t handle the ... Read more..

Net grab bag

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Taking online real estate to the next level — someone should hire Olivier to spec out their real estate web service. Great ideas. Animated Atlas — growth of the US ... Read more..

Don’t smack the bear on the nose

Tuesday, July 19th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Microsoft sues Google. Wow, was this the only really smart guy Google could hire in China? Read more..

Back from the dead

Tuesday, July 12th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Back from two weeks of radio silence up on lopez island. Minor IT disasters on return — 3 power strips blown at home (can’t be a coincidence), one ... Read more..

Cougar Mountain 6/17

Saturday, June 18th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

OK I can’t leave well enough alone. I have to take every opportunity to turn everyday human experiences into geekfests. So I got a Samsung SC-X105 Sports Camcorder, attached the ... Read more..

Father’s day wishlist

Saturday, May 14th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Here’s what I want: Samsung MP3 player — for podcasting a good pedometer+altimeter for my reentry into hiking. plenty of good pedometers and altimeters but are there any combos — preferably ... Read more..

Web sites/services of recent note

Monday, April 25th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Google just keeps cranking — Google launches search history. Google allows multiple Site: specifiers — an undervalued capability. RSS reader now in gmail. Desktop search plugins. ... Read more..

Small appliance product manuals

Monday, April 4th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The web is an amazing thing. Saved us from a cooking disaster this weekend. We hauled our rice cooker out of the small appliance graveyard in our house — wedged ... Read more..

Yes you can have too much technology

Thursday, March 31st, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

It is all coming crashing down around me right at the moment. I don’t feel like I have gadgets and gear, I just have problems. On my person/in my bag: ... Read more..

Contacting Me

Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

In a boring meeting the other day, I was reflecting on how many ways people can get ahold of me. I did a little inventory. Voice: You can call ... Read more..

Sites of recent note

Sunday, March 13th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Love the new customizable Google news — my customized page is here (so that I can use it on all my machines). This page is good enough for me ... Read more..

Jon Udell and the on-demand blogosphere

Tuesday, March 8th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Jon’s latest is a great read. I’ve often wished that I could search just a subset of the web — I’d like to give google not a single domain ... Read more..

More on Light Bulbs

Monday, March 7th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I got a couple questions about my post on LED lightbulbs. While the LED bulbs are not ready for primetime, I have had good luck with these compact fluorescents ... Read more..

LED lightbulbs

Thursday, March 3rd, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I am a big fan of non-incandescent light bulbs — I am moving the whole house slowly to lower power/lower heat alternatives. I found these LED bulbs recently and ... Read more..

Fixing my avalanche blind spot

Monday, February 14th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

My Chevy Avalanche has a blind spot in which you can hide Mount Rainer, it is just huge. Backing up has always terrified me as I could easily be ... Read more..

Net innovations I should/would like to learn more about

Sunday, January 23rd, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

From the last month or so: Mozilla calendar. Calendaring is what keeps our business tied to exchange, sure would like to look at some alternatives. Webdav required here, I ... Read more..

Sharp lc-37gd4u Aquos LCD TV — first impressions

Friday, January 14th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Just got one of these, in the course of a remodel. What a beast! One astounding part of this beast is the i/o ports available. Input: analog coax a, analog coax ... Read more..

The continuing collision of TVs and PCs

Thursday, January 13th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Sony’s new tv/pc combo — ok is there any reason why every new TV won’t someday have a pc next to it or in it? the cost of a ... Read more..

What’s in my gearbag

Wednesday, January 5th, 2005 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Motivated to post this by someone who saw my gear bag and asked where to get one. I carry a bag from Duluth Trading — designed for tools but ... Read more..

Going all voip at home

Thursday, December 16th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Rich is looking at solutions to go all voip at home. Rich some things to look at: Mega list of sip products up at pulver.com Another at Sipcenter open source pbx — asterisk The problem ... Read more..

Semi-random stuff on the net

Saturday, November 20th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

S5 continues to improve — I love the idea of this, a completely hosted presentation app. I never know which machine I am using has which document, this would ... Read more..

Microsoft/Comcast/Moto HDTV PVR

Thursday, November 18th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

OK the comcast dude dropped by and installed today. (A moment of hilarity as he insisted checking to see if my cable was properly grounded or not — a ... Read more..

Latest for the iPod platform

Tuesday, November 16th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Will the iPod be the reason that cars finally get aux audio jacks or the equivalent open interface to their audio systems? The Monster iCruze looks like a good ... Read more..

Interesting net reading

Tuesday, November 9th, 2004 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Reputation Services — second interesting conversation in a week that I’ve seen/had on this topic. Hmm. Peer to peer alarm systems. Fascinating — embedding of peer to peer functionality ... Read more..