I have to pat myself on the back. Its been a whole week since the iPad release and I have somehow managed to refrain from jumping on the bandwagon and buying one. I know in a previous post I was somewhat cynical about the iPad, but after thinking about it for some time, not to [...]

I’ve been reading this headline, or some variation of it, for over a week now and just have to laugh every time I see it. If you haven’t heard, a disgruntled ex-auto dealership employee in  Austin, Texas, used a purportedly stolen username and password to logon to a system called WebTeck Plus, which is used [...]

I recently received a link from a friend, to the National Science Foundation’s photo gallery for: Dismantling the Dome, which is actually part of an NSF press release. The deconstruction of the South Pole dome this past 2009/2010 austral summer certainly marks the end of an era as well as an iconic landmark. I don’t [...]

It seems Steve Jobs and the new Apple iPad just can’t catch a break in online reviews. Even when I discuss it with my techie colleagues, they either laugh at the oversized iPhone (iPod on Steroids! Ha Ha), are disgusted at a name associated with feminine products (Seriously, were there any women in the room [...]