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I was going to post this yesterday before we left for the day’s activities, but the wonderful folks at Charter decided to give me a birthday gift of taking the entire state of Michigan offline so they could upgrade their digital equipment. It was back up right about the time we stepped out the door. . . . → Read More: Happy (belated) Birthday to Me! Apparently the hue and cry from folks upset with Google over their decision to shut down GVS and only offer refunds via credit on Google Checkout purchases caught their attention as they’ve announced that they will in fact do full refunds to customers: When your friends and well-intentioned acquaintances tell you that you’ve made a . . . → Read More: Google to offer full refunds on videos purchased from Google Video Store. We caught a viewing of The Borne Ultimatum this past weekend and I’ve been kicking around how to write a review of it ever since. The short version goes like this: Having lost his girlfriend in the last movie and continuing to suffer from flashbacks about his past, Bourne sets out to finally discover just . . . → Read More: SEB 30 Second Movie Reviews: “The Borne Ultimatum.” Audience participation time. I’m sure more than a few of you folks out there are using USB headsets to voice chat online and I’m looking to pick one up as the quality of the audio from the collar mic I’m using now is best described as “meh.” The collar mic uses the standard microphone jack . . . → Read More: Looking for your thoughts on USB headsets. This has been an excellent series of posts so far and the latest doesn’t disappoint. Here’s a sample of A history of the Amiga, part 3: The first prototype: Jay’s specialty was designing hardware, not software, so he had little input on the design of the Amiga’s operating system. But he did know that he . . . → Read More: ArsTechnica publshes part three of “A History of the Amiga.” It seems Larry King’s official website has a non-scientific poll up asking folks which religion* they associate with: I never knew Larry King was so popular with the atheist crowd. Found via Pharyngula. *Yes, yes, I know atheism isn’t a religion. I didn’t write the stupid poll question. . . . → Read More: Game over. We win. A little End of the World speculation… Sent in by SEB regular Theocrat. So I’ve been following the developments with the Utah mine disaster—with it’s trapped miners and the subsequent death of several rescuers in a second cave-in—waiting for the inevitable revelation that someone in charge is an idiot. Why am I not surprised that it’s yet another Bush end-run-around-Congress appointee: Increasing attention is now being paid to . . . → Read More: Another Bush recess appointee turns out to be incompetent. Say, do you guys remember Leona Helmsley? Seems she just shuffled off her mortal coil: Helmsley died of heart failure at her summer home in Greenwich, Conn., said her publicist, Howard Rubenstein. Already experienced in real estate before her marriage, Helmsley helped her husband run a $5 billion empire that included managing the Empire State . . . → Read More: New York’s Queen of Mean has kicked the bucket. I don’t play pen and paper role playing games much these days, but I used to be quite into them during my teenage years and like a lot of gamers I cut my teeth on the venerable Advanced Dungeons and Dragons game. Countless were the hours that our group of friends spent gathered around a . . . → Read More: “Dungeons and Dragon’s Fourth Edition” due early next year. |
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