our first diving class Well, we did it! The weekend scuba course Beth and I took is now done, and we passed! That was the “confined water diving” section, which was half classroom lecture (and exa...

William Gibson William Gibson: “‘Bush talks and thinks like Milosevic. He will lose, but the most disheartening thing is the prospect of his religio-nationalist reality-deniers clinging fiercely t...

About Google Desktop Search About Google Desktop Search - Word on the street (OK, hallway conversation with someone who tried it) is that the new Google Desktop Search is very cool. I’m downloadin...

Webnote - an online tool for taking notes Webnote - an online tool for taking notes - Yet another amazing little web application someone created and is giving away for free. I’m not sure just what...

lots of changes in my work life Wow, a lot’s happened in the past couple weeks where I work. The biggest thing for me personally was that I got a new job! I’m still working at Polycom, but I gave ...

I’m selling some Mushkin PC3200 memory I’m selling this.

CNN.com - SpaceShipOne captures X Prize - Oct 4, 2004 CNN.com - SpaceShipOne captures X Prize - Oct 4, 2004 - Wow, they did it! I know it sounds cruel or maybe pessimistic, but I figured that one ...

typical bad technical support I had the most infuriatingly bad technical support experience yesterday, with Hewlett-Packard. All I was trying to do was make my networked printer work with my new P...

snap to grid software You know what I want for my Windows XP PC? I want some software that I can run and it’ll make other applications’ windows snap to a grid on the desktop. In other words, I wan...

the switch is made I’m now totally switched over to my new PC, which I called Barracuda. I moved it over to my desk, after tossing my old PC aside. I’ll come back to that later and install Linux o...