Feb 28 2011
As a Gmail user, I found the recent story of Google mistakenly deleting millions of emails belonging to some 39,000 users to be frightening. It, along with the Flikr user who lost thousands of photos because of a mistake made by a Flikr staffer has me wondering how much we should be trusting these enormous […]
Feb 28 2011
I hate being sick. Every winter like clockwork I seem to get sick. This time, I believe I have the flu and I blame my dad for it. He came down with it and passed it on to me like Typhoid Mary. Coincidentally, my mom got her flu shot two weeks ago so her immune […]
Feb 23 2011
I’ve had a love-hate relationship with computer mice for as long as I remember. My favorite mice were of the trackball variety. I loved those. I liked not having to move the mouse all over the desk, just moving my fingers to control the mouse pointer. After a few of them died after just a […]
Feb 05 2011
Despite Intel’s botched Sandy Bridge release, I’m still excited about them. I know the SATA problems are well documented at this point, but there’s no question that those new CPUs are great. Intel’s public reputation will be restored to a degree after those faulty motherboards are recalled in full and new ones are released. It […]