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For one split second, my iPhone was falling to the ground.
Falling.
Falling.
Falling.
Then, whammo, it hit the metal part of a chair and flopped to the floor. When I picked it up, I saw that my Sena slipcase had protected everything except for the top and now my iPhone has a small dent in the [...]

The family wagon (our Lexus RX350) was well overdue for a check up. Thank goodness Magnussen’s Lexus’ Service Department is open on Saturday. Yesterday, I took the RX in for servicing. They would have my car for until 3pm, and I was there at 9:30am. The service consultant asked me if [...]

If you are a fan of ultramookie.com (how could you not be?) and just have to have it on the home page of your iPhone, I have great news:  Now you can!  Yay.  So, now ultramookie.com has a cool icon and is rendered well for the iPhone.  What else could you ask for?  Making the [...]

The movie Sunshine can’t seem to find its way.
50 years in the future, a Q-ball has hit our Sun causing our Sun to slowly die.  The Earth is freezing and mankind is on the verge of extinction.  Sunshine follows the eight-person crew of the Icarus II — a spaceship built to carry a bomb [...]

There are some shows that are airing right now — even with the writer’s strike going on.  So, here are the ones that I have tried over the last few weeks and some that I am looking forward to:

Terminator:  The Sarah Connor Chronicles:  Long name, great show.  After Terminator 3, I had my doubts [...]

I installed Windows Vista Home Premium on my main PC notebook.  I admit it.  I did it.  Yesterday.
While I loved having Fedora 8 — or in general any distro of Linux — on the notebook, I wanted to do stuff that I couldn’t do in Linux.  One of the big drivers was the fact [...]

I was cruising around the Podcast section of the iTunes Store last night and found this early 2007 interview of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.

I just finished watching it and found it to be a really interesting interview. I did have issues with Kara Swisher, who is not a particularly good interviewer — [...]