I have my moments of being a gadget geek … oh hell, I’m always a gadget geek, though the current economy hits this brand of geek pretty hard. Recently Amazon put out its upgraded Kindle product, Kindle 2, which I’d been eying since it was hinted at a while back. The Kindle 2 is an ...

Yesterday started off with me waking up an hour late because my son decided to get up five times in the night. A dandy way to kick-off the day. I had an oil change appointment with Wellesley Mazda later in the morning. I’ve gone there every time for my oil change, for the past five years ̵...

“Joe, did you start the Biology paper yet?” “No. You?” “Nah. Want to do it together?” “Uh… I dunno.” “What, you don’t know or you don’t want to? Come on.” “Uh, yeah, sure. I just wasn’t sure what I was doing ye...

For the past couple of weeks, just about every online acquaintance I know has mentioned or attended SxSW. I heard about it last year and didn’t pay it much attention, but then this Twitter thing came by and then everyone I follow on Twitter was yapping about it and how drunk they were getting ...

Maybe I’ll send this off to Apple as a suggestion… I’d really love to be able to annotate Time Machine backups so I can better refer back to when I made a certain change to my system that I’d like to restore from. For example, I upgraded an application yesterday at noon. Let&...

OK, an odd post to make when I don’t have much to say here lately (or time to do it), but I had to share these home-hitting PSA ads from Canada. Holy. Shite. I will never carry a big vat of boiling oil around a kitchen. Ever. [via Digg]...