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So Apple announced their new 3G iPhone today, and I was seriously considering purchasing one.  That is until I read these two articles. This article posits that AT&T and Apple are making it so that one will need to activate the iPhone in the store, not at home, just like every other cell phone out there.  That’s sort of the pain in ...

I have absolutely nothing to write about, but I'm not going to let that stop me from making a blog post, seeing as how I haven't made one for a while. I've found this really cool application for my iPhone that looks for Wi-Fi/Cellular towers in the area, and uses that information to triangulate my location.  It's from ...

I waited in line to buy OS X Leopard tonight, and I'm really unimpressed. It's pretty - prettier than Tiger, just by a little bit - but this supposed list of 300 new features is a bunch of bullshit.  Or catshit.  It's some sort of shit.  There are four of those features that I have actually found a use for. Time ...

I recently became the proud owner of an iRobot Roomba.  For those of you who aren't familiar with what this is, it's a little robot hockey puck looking thing that wanders around my house and vacuums it for me.  I typically let it go do it's thing every other day, setting it to do it's daily chore just as I'm leaving ...

Since I'm brand new to this Intartubez thing, I just got myself a flickr account. Actually, I got it because there's an application for the iPhone that automatically uploads pictures taken with the phone to a flickr account.  Oh yeah, I got an iPhone, too.  I really have nothing to say about either of these right now, but ...

Forgive the overwhelming geekiness of this post, but - no, I take that back.  If you don't like this, I hate you. Over the last week, I've made some big changes to my computing environment at home.  I figured that I'd record some of my observations while using each of these different operating systems because - well - I ...

About every six months, it hits me. Suddenly, and without warning I will wake up in the morning and say to myself "Why don't I have a Mac?" And for the next few days, I will go through all the associated shit - talking to friends and relatives, hoping that they won't ask me the hard questions about why I actually want ...

I was reading a really interesting article about birth-control through the ages over at DamnInteresting.com, and I came across this particular gem.Ancient Rome's foremost gynecologist – a physician named Soranus – wrote that women should drink the silphium juice with water once a month since "it not only prevents ...

And so, here I am in my apartment in downtown Seattle. Let's just get this out of the way. My main computer broke during the move, and I'm significantly pissed off about it.  The USB ports would no longer recognize any devices plugged into them, and I didn't feel like dealing with HP support, who would tell me to reboot, check ...

I got a new toy this weekend.  I figured that if I was going to be watching a lot of TV while I'm in pain, it shouldn't be painful to watch TV. Of course, it wasn't painful to watch my old one - it was a really nice TV.  But this one's nicer.  It's certainly not one of these, but I don't have to pay for ...