Flametoad

On Saturday I finally broke down. I went to Sam’s Club and bought a Sony Reader, a portable gadget for reading e-books. I’d been eyeing it for a few weeks because they were listing it for $30 under the usual $299 price. As I reported last week, I’d placed an order for a refurbised unit [...]

I lost my cell phone yesterday evening, and it’s already driving me crazy. I had it on the way to pick up Tadpole 1 from kindergarten, and noticed it missing once I’d been home for a couple hours. It’s not in the truck and we can’t hear it ring in the house when we call it. I [...]

I’m not exactly a cutting edge guy. I seem to be about six months to a year behind the digitari. For instance, I was dragged to Facebook kicking and screaming, and I discovered podcasts roughly 9 months after the “podcast renaissance” began. Consequently, I’m late to the party on this whole Jott thing. Jott lets you record notes over [...]

Finally technology has begun to converge in the way we’ve been promised for the last 20 years. I don’t watch a lot of tv these days. My evenings are usually spent with the family or online. I have a Tivo that catches the few shows I do watch though, so I’m not a slave to [...]

There’s an excellent article on Ars Technica today on the significance of an FCC ruling in the 1960s related to a little device that could broadcast a telephone signal beyond the range of wires. You may be thinking “cell phone”, but the idea was that an oilman out in the fields far away from a [...]