The Deacs opened the season Thursday night at Baylor.  It was a rare and welcomed opportunity to see my team in person.  Here are some photos, using Flickr's new embeddable slideshow feature.Technorati Tags: "wake forest"

I'm not sure how, but I came across this video tour of the famously unpopular Microsoft Bob.Technorati Tags: microsoft bob

I need some help. I have been using a Blackberry 7130e for the past 2 years.  It's been a good phone, but it's getting a little long in the tooth.  It does media only slightly better than 2 cans and some string.  I need a new phone.  Fortunately, I am out of contract with Verizon, my current provider, so I am free to pick any phone and any provider I want.  Sort of. There ...

Randy Morin with a lesson on how not to treat your customers.  Reminds me of the time I got completely blown out by this hag at the airport because I tried to pay for a water bottle at the wrong cash register. MG Seigler brings truth to the Continental free not-Wi-Fi story.  Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger and the Blackberry network?  Obviously, Yahoo is paying Continental some money to...

Lifehack has 7 Habits to Win in Office Politics.I'm a little bothered by the "win" in that title.How about to manage office politics?Anyway, habit number 6 - seek to understand before seeking to be understood - is also one of traits of the best negotiators.And probably the best bloggers too. Rick Mahn says bye-bye to Facebook.You know, no matter how hard people try to make it otherwise, Facebook w...

My wife recently joined a book club, which seems to be the soccer moms' preferred social network these days, followed somewhat closely by Bunco groups, which I thought until recently was some sort of organized crime (actually, the more I learn about those groups it may be). Anyway, my wife joins this book club.  The first thing I noticed is that they read all these nerdy, high falutin' books ...

If you've been waiting for the fat lady to sing with respect to the high definition DVD format war, it looks like she's warming up. Engadget reports that with the Warner defection, Blu-ray players have 93% of the HD market. Meanwhile, Universal continues to carry the HD DVD banner, Toshiba slashes the price of its HD DVD players, and thousands of people have signed a petition to "save HD DVD."&nbs...

So this dude grabs a photo of Sooty, the amazing guinea pig, right off my Err Bear Music page, uses my bandwidth to display it on his page, with no attribution (and no link to my song about said guinea pig from whence the photo came) and, on top of all of that, he gets link love from me in my Recent Inbound Links box (in the right column). You have to love the internet. So not only is Google Reade...

I was momentarily very happy today when I came across a story in my feeds saying the iPhone was going corporate.And then I read the post and immediately realized it was not going to happen. All the rates and plans and promotions and parades and proclamations in the world are not going to bring the iPhone to corporate America until it has the ability to pull email from Microsoft Exchange Servers an...

Dave Winer's arguments against AppleTV are very similar to mine against the iPod.Why does Apple get a pass when it tries to control our audio, and now video, experience?Everything about the iPod is designed to force you to use iTunes as a gateway to your music.And to sell some downloads, of course.If Microsoft did something like this, all the Apple heads would scream bloody murder. I'm not saying ...

I'm testing some page improvements.  Please disregard this awesome post. As promised the other day, Haloscan is gone.  It was slowing the load times.  I am trying to configure backlinks (yes, without the no follow tag) on the post pages to see if that will be a better "trackback" system.  Unfortunately, I don't believe the backlinks are getting picked up. Back to the drawing bo...

OK, let me go ahead and get this out of the way.  I have capitulated to the inevitability of Google Reader. I've written quite a bit about the frustrations I've experienced with Bloglines- the two most frequent ones being the need to reload at least once before I can successfully click on a post and the fact that it never seems to finish loading in Firefox.  I had looked into Google Read...

It's a great day when you get to hear some new music by the best band in America- the Drive-By Truckers. CMT (ironic, I know) is streaming full tracks of the DBT's forthcoming record, Brighter than Creation's Dark.  I had to fire-up Internet Explorer to get the player to work, but that's a small price to pay.  I'm listening right now, and so far it sounds like another excellent record. R...