Archive for March, 2005

Got an invite to Yahoo 360 today

So I was checking my GMail this morning and had an invite from an old CNET friend to join him on Yahoo 360, which is Yahoo’s entry to the whole blogging/social networking universe. I’ve already got a blog, right here, so I’m not that interested in the blogging aspects. But the social networking […]

I hate the phone

Not to dis Alexander Graham Bell’s great invention, but sometimes I really hate the phone. I know it’s useful in so many ways, I know we wouldn’t have the Internet without the phone network, but still.
I think what bugs me is how intrusive a phone is–it rings loudly, insisting you pay attention to it […]

G4 screws up yet another TechTV show

Ever since G4 laid off the TechTV staff and moved most production to LA, they’ve been killing off the TechTV shows in favor of the G4TV content. They really didn’t want most of the intellectual property–they bought TechTV strictly for the expanded distribution.
So one more TechTV show bit the dust this week–The Screen Savers has […]

Square button definitely feels different on the PSP

So there’s been lots of buzz about problems with the square button on the PSP. Because the button is right next to the screen, they’ve apparently had to use a slightly different mechanism for the keyclick.
You can feel it–the square definitely isn’t as stiff as the other buttons. It’s not that it’s […]

Lumines is a great PSP game

I’ve been playing Lumines and it’s a great little game for the PSP. It’s the kind of thing you can pick up for a quick fifteen or twenty minute session, about a perfect amount of gaming on a portable device. At least for me.
It’s kinda like Tetris–arrange these falling blocks so that squares […]

Benched 205 today!

For the first time ever, I bench pressed over 200 pounds. Not very far over, 205 to be exact (a 45-pound olympic bar, with a 45- and 35- on each end). I was actually able to do five good presses so I think I could go even higher.
Probably still not ready for my […]

Picked up my Sony PSP

Yes it’s kinda stupid, and normally I don’t try to be an early adopter. But I just loved the idea of everything you can do with it, so I went and bought a Sony PSP tonight on the way home. Put a photo of it up on Flickr. Sorry about the fuzziness–light […]

Did some Filipino cooking here in Louisville

I’ve done very little cooking since I moved here. I didn’t do much when I was living in the Bay Area either, but back then I had an excuse. My tiny condo had an equally tiny kitchen, and of course there was the smoke detectors. My neighbors had tripped it a couple […]

It really is Internet Boom II

Things come in three–HP buying Snapfish is the third big Internet deal in just two days. This HP deal is kinda interesting, it’s a hardware manufacturer saying that they can’t make money these days just with hardware. You have to own some other part of the consumer chain. For printer companies it […]

How do they know there’s a big increase in undocumented workers?

So this report says there’s been an increase in undocumented workers, over 10 million now. But if they’re undocumented, how can these people be counted in a survey like this? They can even somehow tell that almost 60 percent of the undocumented are from Mexico. Again, how is it possible to determine […]