I saw a facebook ad for this strange looking Nike product called the SportBand. Am I the only one who thinks this looks like one of those electric dog collars? I have images of people being forced to run farther and faster, trying to rip this thing off their neck as if it were [...]

My Dad started teaching me to code in BASIC when I was five. My Mom taught me about home row and how to type when I was in the second grade. I’m that guy you call when you can’t figure out how to connect to your wireless network.
I’ve been on a PC my entire [...]

I’ve officially been Googled and I couldn’t be more ecstatic! Google Maps has released the Minneapolis area of their Street View functionality. I had noticed a car this summer as it approached me while stopped at a traffic light near my home. It had a funny contraption atop it. I remember at the time [...]

You’d think I would have learned my lesson after the last time my computer went kaput. In fact, I had. I setup a nightly syncing mechanism that would copy everything onto another drive on my home network. Then I started a sober house and the extra computer, and the hard drive space it included, went [...]

Google frequently changes its logo during holidays, special events, or what have you. Today I noticed the regular old Google logo at their landing page:

You can see all of their previous logos online.
Today, on their search results page, where the logo is found in a smaller version at the upper-left corner, they have a [...]

I’m a self-proclaimed google geek. The technologies and innovations they develop are simple, yet useful. I love them. However, I’m not quite sure what prompted this ad to appear on my website.

Okay, so this is way cool. Search results come only from self-publishers / bloggers. God love Google!

Back in the day when I tried some of the original internet telephone services with my 56k (if you were lucky) dialup, internet telephones (software phones) were pretty much unusable. I never tried again until recently.
I admit it - I’m a total techno geek. But when it comes to internet telephones, I’ve been [...]

Okay, so this is probably one of the coolest things I’ve seen done with the Google Maps API! Check out your neighborhood and find out how much money your neighbors are making

How NOT to email. I must admit - I use some of these in my emails.