Posted in Website Review on Feb 22nd, 2008
I’m currently in the process of finding someone to repaint my house, and I’ve had issues finding someone reliable. I don’t want to higher one of the sketchy guys at the corner in the morning who says he can paint my house for less, I want someone who can actually do the job. I recently [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 22nd, 2008
The cell phone market in the United States is drastically different from the cell phone market in the vast majority of the rest of the world. In the United States, you buy a heavily subsidized phone, and then are locked into a contract for the next one to two years. In the rest of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 21st, 2008
(BUILD-A-DAY DISCLAIMER: None of the Build-A-Day computers come with an operating system, as many people have copies of Windows around their home, or prefer to use a Free operating system such as Ubuntu or Debian. This is intentional. In addition, no computer builds will contain monitors, keyboard, or other peripherals unless otherwise specified.)
Changes between yesterdays [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 21st, 2008
Virtually every security expert recommends that you change your password regularly, some as often as once a week. While I’m ashamed to admit that I only have 4 or 5 passwords - 2 for spammy sites, 1 for sites that require more than 6 letter passwords, and 1 for sites that require upper/lowercase etc, this [...]
Posted in Build-A-Day on Feb 20th, 2008
(BUILD-A-DAY DISCLAIMER: None of the Build-A-Day computers come with an operating system, as many people have copies of Windows around their home, or prefer to use a Free operating system such as Ubuntu or Debian. This is intentional. In addition, no computer builds will contain monitors, keyboard, or other peripherals unless otherwise specified.)
Changes between yesterdays [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 20th, 2008
One of the best ways to carry data these days is pen drive, otherwise known as a thumb drive. CDs are so passe, floppies even more so. Thumb drives are small USB flash drives that rely on solid state memory in order to save weight and increase durability. They were created in the late [...]
Posted in Website Review on Feb 20th, 2008
One thing thats always fascinated me in the technology world - beyond computers, obviously - is spy gadgets. Pinhole cameras, pen microphones, bugs, microphones, etc. There’s not much cooler than feeling like a CIA or FBI agent.
You know what sucks? When you’re in a movie theatre and some guys cell phone goes off. And he [...]
Posted in Build-A-Day on Feb 19th, 2008
(BUILD-A-DAY DISCLAIMER: None of the Build-A-Day computers come with an operating system, as many people have copies of Windows around their home, or prefer to use a Free operating system such as Ubuntu or Debian. This is intentional. In addition, no computer builds will contain monitors, keyboard, or other peripherals unless otherwise specified.)
The big difference [...]
Posted in Build-A-Day on Feb 18th, 2008
(BUILD-A-DAY DISCLAIMER: None of the Build-A-Day computers come with an operating system, as many people have copies of Windows around their home, or prefer to use a Free operating system such as Ubuntu or Debian. This is intentional. In addition, no computer builds will contain monitors, keyboard, or other peripherals unless otherwise specified.)
The $450 build [...]
Posted in Website Review on Feb 17th, 2008
I recently came across an interesting blog, by the name of TechSlant. While the writing at TechSlant isn’t outstanding, the ideas and concepts they’re putting forth are quite interesting, covering topics from politics to Open ID to music downloads.
TechSlants most recent articles talks about politics. I know, ‘ho-hum, another politics blog’, but this isn’t just [...]
