Regular readers of this blog know that I'm an Apple geek. The Macintosh is my preferred axe and has been, with few interruptions, since the late 1980s. Indeed, the...

John McCain's latest argument is to somehow try to retroactively argue that by "surge" he meant "counterinsurgency strategy" and that the...

Filed under: News, Peripherals, Controller We mucky commoners have known about the Wii MotionPlus add-on for just over a week now, but don't go thinking it's any...

Filed under: News Against all odds, Namco decided to release a localized version of Taiko no Tatsujin on the PS2 in 2004. We don't have solid sales data, but judging by...

Sorry for the lack of a report. All went well, except that my system hadn't cleared as much as the doctor would have liked--therefore, I'll have to do it again in five...

Patrick Lambe has reacted to my post on where would we be today if we had no KM movement, would it be any different, would of social networking happened? I agree with...

I had seen these batshit-insane adverts for a couple of weeks already, but hadn’t got a decent shot of them to provide. Now I’ve found that the Met Police...

vagabond rox : "in most cases, the dog is dead and your bank account is fucked. you know you should have pulled the plug earlier, but your heart wasn’t ready. if...

Last weekend a friend was moaning about endless problems with Windows XP on his desktop PC. We installed Ubuntu 7.04 on it. The problems went away. That started me...

This morning I had occasion to deploy a branch of a git repository to a staging server but hadn't the foggiest idea how. A quick search through the capistrano source code...

This has been the subject of several recent feedback e-mails we’ve received.  Moreover, a few recent correspondents were kind enough to point out that not only did...

I’ve been reluctant to begin blogging again because I know I can’t get started now without first saying I’m missing Anita Rowland. And I don’t...

From the “Circling the Wagons Department” it seems the New York City Department of Education has laid down the law about employees referencing their blogs in...

This is a short, off-topic rant. Please bare with me. In an effort to spark some life into my home laptop (which is about four years old and fighting like a champ), I've...

I've been revising episode 1.02 of the pay cable series I'm developing. One scene just wasn't working, between a kid and his recently separated dad. There was conflict...

Earlier this year I did quite a few posts relating to Google Maps, (Google Calendar maps, geoblogging (blogging from Google MyMaps), a geoTwitter map, some maps relating...

I am very pleased to announce that the Microsoft SandCastle project team has reconfirmed its strong support for the Ms-PL  and is preparing to release all source...

It's Monday morning and I am standing at the bank teller's window waiting for him to do whatever it is that tellers do when you ask for something and they start punching...

Why is this Buddha smiling? Can anyone tell me? Last year, while I was on my Student journey to Greece, Santorini I saw exact copy of this awesome 3D "painting" in the...