Bad news in the household to report. My spouse was laid off today from a big company, whose name shall remain private - reasons given, blank stares, Charlie Brown's teacher translation..blah blah blah.."We are sorry.." blah blah blah...It does not matter in the end, the result is the same. One works...

Bad news in the household to report. My spouse was laid off today from a big company, whose name shall remain private - reasons given, blank stares, Charlie Brown's teacher translation..blah blah blah.."We are sorry.." blah blah blah...It does not matter in the end, the result is the same. One works...

We finally managed to have two positive back-to-back days for the benchmarks. There are many stocks that bounced from oversold levels, undeservingly so. They climbed to their 50-day MA, where they will find major resistance. Why? Because most of the investors in these stocks are under water and they...

Our old 700 MHz iBook G3 passed away quietly on Saturday evening. My wife had used it to check her email that morning, and all had seemed well, but when she tried to wake it for a late-night check just before retiring, it refused to respond. Over the next several hours I tried every method of resusc...

I’ve been reading all the rumors Of Apple’s new machine. Seems everyone knows just what it is Although it’s never been seen. Some say it’ll be a netbook; That’s what Chinese papers proclaim. Their track record has been spotty at best But we believe them all the same. Ot...

So amazing, so illegal. What are we going to do with you, future? That’s my pal, Jonathan Coulton, remarking on the disruptively talented Kutiman, who has made an astounding series of YouTube video remixes that’s lighting up the web and (one imagines) generating a lot of wood amongst our...

My latest column has been published in the Malaysia Star . ... Folks from those parts of the world—or even the parts of the United States—that have only known warm climates have a hard time getting a handle on snow, even after a few winters where snow is common. So it occurs to me—...

Maybe Apple’s iPhone app review process is actually partially automated, because I can see no other good reason for having rejected the latest update of Tweetie (1.3) for objectionable content. The offending word (the F-bomb, in case you were wondering) would normally merit that kind of treatm...

In our continued effort to understand the American moviegoer’s psyche, we uncover a diamond of truth revealed to us this weekend during the Watchmen premiere. At the expense of throwing away originality, we love stories that we already know. Zack Snyder’s adaptation of the greatest graph...

Two funny facts about Utah that may or may not be coincidental: Utah is the happiest state in the US and Utah downloads more porn than any other state. Seriously, though, the second of the two reports sounds pretty interesting. The Salt Lake Tribune points out, "Online porn subscription rates are hi...