In my office at work I’ve got this torchiere light and because I’m lazy I have it hooked up to a wireless power switch. With a flick of the battery-operated switch on my desk the light turns on and off. This setup has worked well for over a year. Until now. Yesterday my light started…

According to this supposedly leaked speech from Nintendo, the Wii is going to launch in the US on October 2nd for $175. They’re allegedly throwing a ton of peripherals into the box, too… A white or black Wii, a Wii remote, a nun-chuck connector, a classic controller, a sports game, and a voucher of “1000…

This vocoder tutorial celebrates the almighty power of the vocoder! The tutorial includes before and after mp3s and the results are astounding. What started off as a nerdy-sounding Finnish guy singing mostly off-key has been transformed into a robot singing in perfect pitch in a space-synth extravaganza! You have to hear it to believe it….

Hey guys, check this out. Wooden Indian, I challenge you to a staring contest! YOU TOTALLY BLINKED! HA HA!

What’s missing from this picture? My wedding ring. I lost it on our trip to San Francisco. Tammy and I had just finished up a morning at the Bliss spa. She got a massage and I got my first facial ever. The facial was nice. Astrud Gilberto and Norah Jones quietly sang to me through…

My eyes are going bad. I’m 28 and I’ve never had to wear glasses. In the past two or three months, however, I’ve noticed that I’m starting to have trouble focusing on my computer screens. I guess I only realized the problem a few days ago. I was thinking to myself “I used to be…

Internet Explorer is not the greatest web browser in the world. That’s not news. What is news is that IE7 (in beta right now and due before year’s end) really is going a long way toward fixing IE’s legendary and historically broken CSS implementation. The IE developers’ blog explains a lot of what has changed…

The Sci-Fi channel seems to have this crazy habit of cancelling my favorite shows…especially when those shows are the highest-rated on the network. I don’t understand it. First Farscape was cancelled in 2003. That broke my heart, but I got over it. Now, ten seasons and more than 200 episodes later, Stargate SG-1 has gotten…

Cory Doctorow is invading my turf! Disneyland is pretty much ruined now. I really hope I never see him there in person. I wonder if he’s able to go 30 minutes without mentioning his DRM/Copyright crusade to anyone who will listen. For someone who hates our copyright system, he sure loves Disney…one of the biggest…

Last night I finally had an opportunity to check out a world-famous cougar den – the Foxfire restaurant in Anaheim Hills. We showed up after dinner and went straight to the bar because a friend’s band was playing that night. Foxfire. Locally it’s known by many names. Wrinkle Ranch.Menopause Manor.The Crotchfire. All of these names…