Author: Brian Richardson

  • It’s All Relative: Christmas Edition

    So let me get this straight … You dress up in a weird suit, put on a fake beard, talk in a funny voice and pretend to be someone else in a mall in December. You’re a normal part of the holiday season. This is accepted behavior. People are paid for this on a regular…

  • Funny Microsoft Data

    Engadget is running this story where Microsoft reports that the counterfeit rate of Vista is half that of Windows XP. They interpret it as a success for their authorization process preventing piracy. I read it as Microsoft making an OS so bad nobody wants to steal it. The magic of data is how you interpret…

  • BellSloth meets the new AT&T … and dies …

    Good thing we didn’t plan to record the podcast last night, otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to record the podcast thanks to the new AT&T. An attempt to purge some of the old BellSouth servers from their system caused a nine state outage that lasted over four hours. Even their service phone line crashed…

  • Smelly, fuzzy, blurry … what’s not to love?

    So, you may ask yourself in this time of holiday sales, can a $169.00 LCD projector marked down to $119.00 at Target be a bad deal? According to this web review, it’s a horrible deal. Maybe I should just save up for a real projector, or only buy this if I want to cannibalize it…

  • Turkeymas: Post-game Analysis

    Here’s a quick wrap-up of my Turkeymas holiday experiences …

  • Back to the farm

    Yet again, I look out my window to see construction on my property … Last time it was demolishing the old house. This time it’s building a barn in its place. Not our usual trips to Home Depot with a trailer to buy bags of concrete and 2×4 lumber, but an actual construction project with…