Monthly Archives: May 2008

Joikuspot Launches New Mapspot Service.

The folks at Joiku, the company that has developed the revolutionary Joikuspot software that lets you turn your Symbian Series 60 device into a mobile wi-fi hotspot have done it again. This time they’ve built on their Joikuspot platform by … Continue reading

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Got Gadgets?

Recently, several people have inquired about the extent of my “toy” collection. Mostly it consists of Nokia phones (although there’s also a Treo, an iPhone, a Helio Drift, and a Samsung SCH-i830, and a few others hardly worth mentioning), various … Continue reading

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Is OLPC a Fraud?

Back in December of 2007 I took OLPC – the One Laptop Per Child project up on it’s special year-end offer. This offer included two laptops: one which would be donated to a country in need of the devices to … Continue reading

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Op Ed of the Year (and a warning Obama must heed)

In today’s New York Times Nathan Thrall and Jesse James Wilkins write eloquently about JFK’s meeting with Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna in 1961. According to the accounts of Kennedy’s aides and even Kennedy himself, the meeting was a disaster with … Continue reading

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When are You Going to Get Mad?

Great Scene. Are you Mad yet? [YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-rmSYhK_NQ&autoplay=0 380 380]

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Has America Been Hijacked?

“We Can Bomb the World to Pieces, but We Can’t Bomb it into Peace” – Michael Franti & Spearhead, Bomb the World Regardless of what you believe or disbelieve about the official account of what happened during 9/11 there are … Continue reading

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Has George Bush Lost What Little Mind He Had? Nazi Sympathizer and War Monger Should Keep Mouth Shut

After Bush’s remarks made earlier today in Israel, one has to wonder if the man has completely lost his marbles. While I’m no fan of Obama and have sincere doubts about his ability to lead this country (though I share … Continue reading

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creative writing of story

Two things have happened in the past few days that, at least my own opinion, emphasize the facts in my prior post: first that PR people typically don’t have a clue when it comes to dealing with bloggers (the very … Continue reading

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More on Mars… (YouTube Video that Defies Conventional Explanation by NASA)

What do you make of this? [YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceDcVqB_ACM&autoplay=0 360 360]

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TwitterFone Goes Live

TwitterFone, a new service that allows you to post to Twitter via voice by calling a number on your mobile phone has just been lit up. The application is currently in an invite-only beta so if you want to use … Continue reading

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