Category: General

  • Check your calendar in November 2007

    Dana Gross, chief marketing officer, M-Systems Flash Disk Pioneers Ltd., Fremont, CA predicts: "Expect a terabyte of data storage in a cellular phone by 2007.  This will be achieved through continued advancements in flash silicon and multilevel cell technology."Sounds pretty nice, but I still don’t have a flying car!  I think I will follow-up in…

  • One bitten twice shy?

    The following item appeared in my email this morning in the InformationWeek Daily email broadcast:"If I go out now and hit a ball off of the fairway in any fashion or form, I will not go after it." Roy Williamson, who was bitten twice by a rattlesnake when he tried to retrieve his ball from…

  • Closing the loop

    In addition to By the Yard recycled pop bottle lawn furniture made in Shakopee Minnesota, and the Sierra Club clothing made with EcoSpun recycled Fortrel polyester, you can get backpacks and other carrying bags from Earthpak.

  • Todays thoughts

    Never hold your farts in.  They travel up your spine, into your brain, and that’s where you get shitty ideas from.via eMail from my wife.I always thought that it was the cord that connected the eyes to the asshole; that was corrected by an optirectumyInstead of solid accomplishments, the man pursues pleasures and self-gratification.  He…

  • How to Umpire the Game

    I once had someone explain to me that the way you could tell the difference between a young umpire, an experienced umpire and an old umpire was that the young umpire would say, “I call them as I see them.”  And the middle-aged umpire would say, “It’s not a ball or a strike until I…

  • The Daily Mislead

    Check out this new Web site from MoveOn.org — www.misleader.orgIt has daily dispatches of President Bush’s false statements with a "Just the Facts, Ma’am" approach — no rhetoric, just a couple of paragraphs to you by 9 am EST.via email from Nat Forbes, Sat, 11 Oct 2003 13:51:11 +0800

  • Brain Droppings

    I found a open source product called phpWiki that was being used by the guy who wrote DocReader for windows, a palm doc file creation/editing tool that has turned out to be very handy in getting text onto the Rosy Palm.Also today, I came across a new english idioms site that was interesting and had…