Bill Gates, the billionaire behind Microsoft, MS-Dos, and Windows. The man who is credited with saying “640K of ram is enough for anyone”, is calling it quits and is leaving Microsoft.
The bad thing about this is that this means that Steve Ballmer is going to be in charge now. This is the same [...]

Remember the Writer’s strike? I remember it. Some of the few things I liked about television were either killed by it or had their seasons ended several months early because of it. Now it’s a year later and we’re staring at the prospect of another strike that could delay the fall season, [...]

Y’know, I’ll just bet that there’s plenty of people out there who share at least one of my opinions. I’m Sick of hearing about O.J. Simpson in the news. Now there’s a CBS story about his latest claim.. that a Nevada prosecutor is persecuting him.
I am not a hamster, I realize that said [...]

I am not a hamster but lately Facebook has been making me feel like I’m in a giant hamster wheel. Loading profiles isn’t too bad but the “applications” can get to be horrendously slow… as in click on something and then go set up the capresso coffee machine and brew a pot. Then [...]

After years of people trying, Arkansas finally has the issue of a state lottery on the November ballot. For years now people in Arkansas have been going to neighboring states to buy lottery tickets. This is money that, if Arkansas had it’s own lottery, would not need to be leaving the state and [...]

You know the type… prone to loud stereo’s going at all hours of the night and day, parties, fights, loud cars with engines racing… Trash cans clattering and banging in the middle of the night and once in a while a really loud fight that may or may not include gunshots and / or a [...]

Here’s a giggle for you. Last year there were some 9,999 drivers in North Carolina who were issued license plates that had “WTF” as the first three characters.
Naturally this caused a lot of giggling among people who’re up to date on current Internet shorthand. This one teacher had such a plate and didn’t [...]

I was looking at my Statcounter logs today and I noticed something interesting. Despite Microsoft’s long standing claim to superior numbers of people using it’s IE browsers, it’s no longer even close to being the number one browser in use anymore.
What made me decide to look was an article on xyberlog.com about how firefox’s [...]

Do you have a WordPress blog that, every time you log on to it you get this big honking notice that you need to upgrade? Have you pretty much decided that you’ll deal with an upgrade when you’re darn good and ready and don’t want to be nagged about it?
That’s pretty much where I’m [...]

With the news coming out about some brain trust deciding to predict that gasoline could reach seven dollars a gallon in a couple of years, there’s already a domino effect of bad news spreading out from it.
Financial types are worried about nearly everything and it’s showing on the stock market as the Dow Jones industrials [...]