I was having a discussion yesterday with a fellow who’s been in the technology business quite a bit longer than myself.  Though I wasn’t yet an accomplished “I.T. Guy” when he sold his first computer in 1983 (I was finishing the first grade), I do share a knowledge of the am...

Obama’s budget for next year… $3 trillion in fact and an additional $250 billion this year to make it $1.75 trillion. That’s a lot of money. Ah but “he vowed to slash federal spending by $2 trillion.” That makes me feel so much better. Whatever is he going to slash? Pri...

Filed under: DIY, Features, Media PCs We don't try to hide how much we like Windows Media Center around here but that doesn't mean we hesitate to complain when warranted, and one of our biggest complaints has always been the limited codec support -- especially when it comes to Extenders. Well we're ...

It is nearly two years since I first wrote here about WordTalk .  Since then, I have worked hard to promote this powerful free text-to-speech plugin for Microsoft Word.  WordTalk turns the Windows version of Microsoft Word into a talking word processor that highlights text as it is read.  It incl...

I got a few emails about my Oxycodone Shortage post, wondering if I ever got meds, and what the hell was going on. So here's my update, hopefully with a little less emotion and cursing than the other post contained (though I make no promises on either) : I see my physician, Dr. Fetus (for those of y...

Neuro appointment today.   This is long, I'm sorry, I'm in limbo again. I might not have MS, again!Stopping Copaxone as of today as a bit of an experiment. See here's the thing.   Lots of things, I guess, can cause lesions, eh? Fact:  I DO HAVE SARCOID.  No doubt. ...

There is a nationwide oxycodone shortage. NO ONE has any. To make matters worse, everyone is telling a different story. One pharmacy blamed the FDA and their "guidelines" as to how much of the med can be made. Another blamed a recall. One told my dh that there was a "problem with a precursor" to the...

A year ago today, I was taking a plane from Chennai to Bangalore and then having a good walk around Bangalore with Mohan. Over a year ago, I signed up for Nokia's Sports Tracker in preparation for the Urbanista Diaries trip. I created a public account that would feed into the Urbanista Diaries web i...

Issues, Etc. host extraordinaire Todd Wilken used the opportunity of an “open mic� web extra to address the Issues, Etc. trademark dispute and the LCMS legal threat against both him and producer Jeff Schwarz. In the segment, Todd Wilken lays out the case of the dispute going all the way back to ...

The year I lived in Ireland, for grad school, I had an account with Vodafone IE.  The only thing that I really like about Vodafone IE, other than they had the best data coverage all around Ireland in 2005-2006, was the web based sms/text messaging. Everyone who had a Vodafone account, be it a pay a...