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For those of you that have asked, here's what's different behind the curtain on the new site... I decided to distract myself with geek work on the personal site back during the first weekend of the NFL (a full three months into my blogging hiatus).  I'd been using .Text to power the site since it's launch in summer 2004, but since ...

OK, I guess it's my turn to play. Randall Newton of AECnews chose to tag me from his personal blog for the "5 Things You Didn't Know About Me" meme, so here goes...Although I've always lived in the Pacific Northwest and love the four season climate, I'm not a big fan of snow. A few weeks of it around Christmas is ...

As of this past Wednesday, Infone is no more.  It's a shame.  They had a good service -- an enhanced, on-demand operator assistance/concierge service -- unfortunately, they couldn't keep going.  It was a needed, affordable, and convenient service, and they executed it very well.  Unfortunately, no one knew ...

Besides being fun, being in the Engineering & Architecture Technology industry has afforded me the opportunity to be around some pretty cool stuff over the years.  Today offered up yet another of those rare gems.  A New Zealand team is developing a robotic human jaw! News of this development makes me even more optimistic ...

Back in the day, I remember attending the inaugural NAAUG (now known as AUGI) meeting in San Jose.  I stood in line for hours waiting for my chance to experience a demonstration of virtual reality.  Although it wasn't much by today's standards, the experience convinced me the Virtual Reality (VR) was on the fast track to becoming ...

An interesting blurb on TheFeature.com today...RFID, Par for the Golf Course This may actually be worth a look.  I sure could have used it on the 16th at RedGate last Thursday. Skeptics may scoff at the price compared to simply buying more balls, but it's more valuable to me as a way to waste less time looking for errant ...

Gizmodo, one of my favorite web sites, alerted me to a really cool new product today -- Bluetooh luggage tags.  Ever since I got my newest iPaq, I've seen the light of the future, and it's Blue!  I had to get a new Bluetooth phone, and Bluetooth headset, and a USB Blutooth interface for my computer.  Hopefully, a ...

Here it is 500 years later, and we're still figuring out what a genius Leonardo Da Vinci was. The New York Times did a short piece about a recreation of a self-propelled wagon first designed by Da Vinci back in 1478.  Powered by a spring that is tensed by pushing the cart backwards, it had a range of some 40 tyards.  It was likely ...

Living in the Spokane Valley I don't get into downtown Spokane very often.  That's usually not a big deal, but a little more than a week ago, the City of Spokane launched a huge, free WiFi "Hot Zone" downtown.  Yesterday was the first time I had a chance to try it out. After running a short errand (my excuse for going ...