Category: miscellaneous

While it’s certainly not something I can retire on, it is interesting that according to dnScoop chriskelley.org is worth $429.  It looks like they look at Google and Alexa traffic numbers to figure this out, but of course it is largely an academic exercise since its only worth what someone is willing to pay.  SO…

A somewhat pessimistic view from Information Week on the results so far of business investments in creating a presence in Second Life.  One line that stood out for me was: The design simulations are kludgy and represent the ultimate exercise in pointless boredom for users who want to indulge their ultimate fantasies, not decide between…

If you are reading this, you are at most 3 degrees of separation from Arnold Schwarzenegger, current governor of Califronia. The first degree is me. I am assuming that if you read my blog you ‘know’ me so that counts. The rest of the connection works like this: Before we moved to the farm last…

I have been very happy for the past year with my T-mobile MDA (aka HTC Wizard).  However I saw the new line of phones from i-Mate on the Engadget site and I’m thinking this one might be an interesting upgrade when available sometime this summer.  I hope T-mobile carries it. Engadget

My family and I went to Walmart on Sunday to pick up a few groceries we had forgotten at our trip to the “real” store the day before.  We’ve had a rash of bad weather around Cincinnati the last few days and on Sunday everyone was gearing up for it.  So it wasn’t much of…

Since I was in China last week, the Superbowl was aired live Monday morning local time. A bunch of ‘the Americans’ got together in one of the hotel rooms and cycled through the 40 channels on the cable system trying to find a broadcast. Eventually we found it on ESPN (which I thought was odd…

This one is gonna be short as I am typing it from a publicly accesible iMac in the Air France lounge at the Paris airport. Let me apologize now for any mis-spellings as either the French or Apple or both hqve decided that the keyboard layout the rest of the world uses is insufficient in…

Left Tokyo on Saturday morning after a relatively calm Friday evening consisting of dinner at a Shabu-Shabu restaurant near the hotel and an early bed time.  Took a Cathay Pacfic flight into HK that arrive around noon local time.  Immigration and customs wasn’t a big hassle (that was saved for later when we went to…

.!. When we walked in there were 12 fish in this tank.