In an all too familiar game, I am stuck playing the card that I do not wish to play.  This morning I called in a work order to have my Internet service provider (ISP) changed from AT&T Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) to Cox Cable.  Before you get too excited that I have finally seen the [...]

View Larger Map I just tried Google Maps for the first time in a while and it is really nice. I was amazed at how well I could see our home in England when we were in the Air Force.  The above address it 34 Adastral Close, Felixstowe, Suffolk, England.  It is phenomenal how clear and [...]

Today I read a post on Techcruch where Michael Arrington tells about why Google employees quit.  This post reveals that some employees have voiced concerns about low pay, diminishing benefits, and too much bureaucracy.  The article shows that many employees had the same concerns.  This cannot be good for all the Google worshipers that I [...]

As many of you may know I have posted about how the government does everything the hard way.  Everything we do is usually impacted by a new rule or policy that makes our jobs harder.  Over the last two days at work we have received this message or some rendition of it on our computers.  [...]

As many of you know, I am a big fan of Leo Laporte and his podcast This Week in Tech, or TWiT.  As with most podcasts, this one is not only in audio but also streams video via twitlive.tv.  If you are not familiar with this program or who Leo is, I have to give [...]

I usually like to learn about new things in the technology world and this past week we had a big one come to pass.  This story went virtually unnoticed because of all the news surrounding the US presidential election.  It appears that the FCC has voted to allow the space given up by analog television [...]

This weekend the Internet Radio Linking Project (IRLP) sent out an upgrade that would vastly improve the audio from node to node.  This update changed out two files, the imike, and ispeaker.  This allows nodes to connect to each other with uncompressed audio making an incredible audio quality.  This increase in audio quality also increased [...]

You may remember me posting earlier about my Internet giving me a hard time. I was fed up with the never ending going off line despite paying for AT&T’s elite DSL that was supposed to give us the fasted speed.  I was really losing my patience with losing web access while all my other Internet [...]

I went ahead and re-opened my Facebook account as it gives me more control over the content unlike Friendfeed.  I left all the other social networking sites closed.  Of all  the sites that I really do love to use, I would say Flickr, Twitter, and Facebook.   The rain is moving back in today and I [...]

I understand the temptation for signing up for the newest toy that comes out.  I have been paying attention to the computer industry for more than a decade.  One thing that has consistently been the story is the hatred people in the computer industry have for Microsoft.  Some of the stated reasons were because of [...]