Today’s unprecedented announcements have lead to mass chaos here in the United States. At this point it is uncertain if a Federal state of emergency will be announced or not, particularly in the former state of California where no one seems to know who is in charge or which government, if any, has the […]

Bright and early this morning my email managed to do something that I’m sure everyone’s email does on occasion; it pissed me off.
The culprit this beautiful Saturday was the following notice from the domain registrar GoDaddy. (I have truncated the notice for brevity and security reasons)
On 6/7/08 3:55 AM, “support@godaddy.com” <support@godaddy.com> wrote:
Dear Oliver Starr,
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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 adding location information to the mix. The new offering is called Mapspot and […]

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 support children’s education, and a second, sent to the individual making the donation. […]

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 Khrushchev “pummeling” Kennedy on multiple topics and from nearly every angle.
From […]

We all have a website that at times feels like the bane of our existence.  In my case that site happens to be Southwest Airlines.  Personally, I feel that it suffers from some uniquely bad work flow engineering and if you have used the site at all, let alone as many times as I have […]

If you can’t play with your toys properly, they get taken away. That’s the clear lesson we should all learn from the recent idiocy in Australia where it seems a few folks with IQ’s at least a standard deviation below the mean got a hold of a couple of green lasers and had […]

Editor’s note: Growing up my grand-dad had a feedlot in Greeley, Colorado. This short fiction is based upon events related to that property.
Greeley
The two men leaned against the fence staring silently over the long shadows of the corn as another September day waned gently into dusk.
After a bit one of the two pushed […]

It’s no surprise that half a dozen people sent me a link the Matt Richtel’s New York Times Article (login required) about the stresses of blogging and the toll it takes on one’s health. To his credit, Matt did attempt to reach me, however phone tag and deadlines precluded our having a discussion […]

I was browsing videos on disclose TV recently and came across a rather bizarre clip. In the clip, which is being shot by the passenger in a vehicle headed down the highway, everything appears normal when suddenly, something falls from the sky and slams into the car’s windshield. The driver apparently panics and […]