Over the years, I’ve amassed quite a home theater setup. It’s not a big fancy room, but I’ve got really comfortable furniture and a big screen, surround sound system, HD satellite dish receiver, video game systems, a Roku Netflix player, an iPod system, a DVD player, and an HDMI switcher. With great technological power, comes … Read more
According to The Tech Herald Microsoft is not done with Bungie and their flagship XBox video game franchise “Halo,” which includes at least 3 single-player titles and a recent foray into real-time strategy games. Recently it was announced at ComicCon in San Diego that they intend to release not only a Halo anime mini-series, but … Read more
I’ve been working on a few projects lately, both work and non-work related. One of them I wanted to share with you all is a Twitter-aggregation site I made that collects all the Tweets on Twitter for a recent period of time that relate to steak, different cuts of steak, the #wehavesteak or #steak hashtags, … Read more
It’s one thing to sit at home in your underwear in front of the computer eating cheesy poofs and drinking your diet soda while making your draft picks for your Fantasy Football league. It’s another to party with celebs at VIP parties and rub elbows with Vegas showgirls while sitting in your underwear at your … Read more
People wonder sometimes why I’m “raging” as a tech support person. I understand that it can be frustrating to have to call tech support to begin with – it’s not even the real jackasses that make me the angriest. It’s people who can’t follow directions – they can’t walk the line, so to speak, to … Read more
The BBC has a really paranoid article about hackers being able to sniff out your keystrokes via the power circuit to which your computer may be connected. Obviously, this doesn’t apply to laptops, and from the article they’re only testing this out on PS/2 keyboards with really crappy shielding. Apparently due to poor shielding, data … Read more
The Associated Press (AP) has a story about Twitter users transmitting short cooking or baking recipes in 140 characters or less. (Check out the article for specific Twitterers that do this.) Why 140 characters? This is the hard limit Twitter sets on tweets so that it works in the confines of the SMS/text-messaging character limitations. … Read more