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Looks like Sammy Corp, a pinball machine company, is looking to buy Sega. This has caused interest with Microsoft and Electronic Arts to buy into part or all of Sega. Sega is not doing so well right now, they are currently looking into laying off 450 people in the US. It [...]

“Cool!” That was my first reaction when an honest-to-garsh bash shell started on my Windows 2000 notebook. This is because I had just installed Cygwin on my notebook. Cygwin is basicallly two things: 1) cygwin1.dll which is a UNIX emulation layer and 2) a whole slew of kick-ass UNIX [...]

I have been in an airport all day long. The winter storms have caused havoc. My flight 9am to Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) this morning was cancelled and I got rescheduled for a noon flight. So I waited at San Jose International Airport. Then I got an upgrade to first class [...]

So, I was thinking about SUVs and their gas consumption and how much it costs to keep up an image. I looked at a Hummer H2 and compared it with a Honda Civic Hybrid. The H2 gets 13mpg, the Civic Hybrid gets 51mpg. A soccer mom who drives a vehicle without [...]

I wonder if all those people who bought SUVs are now thinking to themselves, “Screw image, I’m freaking bleeding money on gas!” Gas, atleast here in the Silicon Valley is soaring past $2 and there is no stopping anytime soon now that our war-mongering President may just get his little war in Iraq. [...]

I stopped by Microcenter today to see what’s “new” there (new in quotes because they really don’t get anything new when it’s new). I must say I was surprised by the Santa Clara store, they are transforming into an upscale WeirdStuff or Surplus Computers type shop. They used to try to [...]

I go to tech stores all the time, anyone can tell you that my favourite shopping place is Fry’s. And I just love gadgets, my most favourite gadgets are the PDAs. I’ve actaully stopped my PDA frenzy when I got my Handspring Treo 90, but that doesn’t stop me from still looking [...]