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Archive for January, 2006

Sleep Technology

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006 Posted in Technology | 5 Comments »

I'm always fascinated by sleep technology, even though most products out there targetted to people who want a more fulfilling night's sleep consist of $100 boxes that make "soothing noises" nonstop.  Or you could get a CD full of soothing ...

iWeb Test

Thursday, January 19th, 2006 Posted in Technology | Comments Off

This is the result of my playing around with iWeb. This is probably the only time I'll ever play with iWeb... it's nice, but just not for me. I mean, one page and it takes up 2 mb!!! ...

William Shatner sells kidney stone for $25k

Thursday, January 19th, 2006 Posted in Humor, News, Weird Stuff | 1 Comment »

Yup, thats right. William Shatner has sold his kidney stone to Golden Palace Casino for $25,000. Best quote: "But Shatner said it wasn't easy parting with a kidney stone." It never is, it never is. ...

FedUp with FedEx

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006 Posted in Rants | 1 Comment »

Who is home at 1pm?  Not many people.  So why on earth does FedEx expect me to be home to receive my package?  Why is my signature required for a little piece of software?  Why do you ALWAYS put a ...

Google Earth

Thursday, January 12th, 2006 Posted in Technology | Comments Off

Ahh, Google Earth for the Mac. Just in time for Geocaching for Google Earth.

MWSF

Wednesday, January 11th, 2006 Posted in Technology | Comments Off

A rundown: iLife '06: Meh. iWeb does look VERY nice, but Wordpress it ain't so don't expect this page to be using any of Apple's trademarked reflection goodness. Intel iMac: The people who bought the new iMac a few months ago ...

Geek Lust

Monday, January 9th, 2006 Posted in Technology | 1 Comment »

MWSF starts tomorrow. I know what page I'll be refreshing tomorrow at 2pm. Also, everyone like the little changes I made? I like it a lot better. I've got an honest-to-god host now! Soon my mom will be ...

Bill Gates — out of touch with reality?

Friday, January 6th, 2006 Posted in Rants, Technology | 1 Comment »

So I watched part of the CES keynote the other day. Bill came out and shared with everyone his vision of what future computers will be like. His example was the "family computer" being a huge touch-screen monitor ...

e-Paper

Thursday, January 5th, 2006 Posted in Neat web links, Technology | Comments Off

This kind of thing gets me excited. (hangs head in geek shame.) Another thing that gets me excited is the hint that Apple "accidentally dropped" that they're working on something called "iWeb" to be included with iLife '06. Perhaps ...

Yelp

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006 Posted in Neat web links, Technology | Comments Off

TWiT pointed me to an interesting website called Yelp. Basically its a social reviewing website. It looks like there are ratings for local restaurants, hotels, dentists even. This is the kind of thing I think the web ...