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Monthly Archives: November 2004
The New Screen Savers
I’m sitting here watching the two new episodes of The Screen Savers on my TiVo and thought I’d share some initial impressions. For those who don’t know, the network G4TechTV produces this show and a couple of weeks ago they … Continue reading
Treatises on fixing our Dysfunctional Relationship with Diet, Exercise, and Health
Like many of my readers, I’m sure, I’ve had an ongoing battle with weight, but I also have done extensive reading on the subject. I’m not just talking about diet books, but also studies, articles, and interviews, debates, etc. on … Continue reading
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Online Wishlists – Google goes up against Amazon.
Back in the wacky days of the dot com bubble, I had this idea which I’m sure at least a few (thousand?) other people did to create a website that was basically about wish lists. I had an Amazon.com wish … Continue reading
Treo 650 Memory Debacle
Oh the humanity! The promised nirvana of smartphoneness has been yanked from our clutches! Or so it seems. Just over this past weekend, a firestorm developed over reports that the Treo 650’s new non-volatile memory stored things less efficiently (so … Continue reading
Big Media at it again – the Killing of TechTV
Back five or six years ago, my then roommates and I got our first satellite antenna and one of the networks that we spent lots of time watching was a computer/tech/gadget-oriented “ZDNet.” “ZD” was from Ziff Davis, a publisher of … Continue reading
Failed Food Products
In a random remembrance moment I had this morning, a couple of food items that I really enjoyed, but only briefly, came back to me. It’s odd that I would remember such ephemera and I can’t think why I would … Continue reading
Studying Weight Loss
Katherine from Low Carb Freedom has a nice piece on a recent study presented by Brown University that purports to show that low-fat diets are more effective at weight loss for the long haul. I saw this article (article no … Continue reading
Vitamin E
There’s been recently some news about how Vitamin E taken as a supplement might be bad for you because a study found slight increase in mortality in a group that took the standard 400 IU daily dosage. Laura has an … Continue reading
TiVoLution and the Broadcast Networks
There’s an interesting post by Eric McErlain over at Off Wing Opinion about TiVo and broadcasting networks intentionally trying to defeat TiVo’s recording technology. Like so many companies (especially content producers) faced with obsolescence due to technological changes, the networks … Continue reading
Firefox 1.0
I’ve written some praises about Firefox already, but they have finally unveiled their first true non-beta release, Firefox 1.0. Unfortunately at the moment the site looks overwelmed by visitors, so try a little later if you can’t get in right … Continue reading
