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OK. This is just ridiculous. I buy a new printer the other day. HP C6180. It's a pretty nice printer. All in one deal.  read more »

Here are a couple of things I have been wanting to pass on for a while. First off is Code Monkey. This is for all those programmers out there that get the shaft most of the time. It was written last year by Jonathan Coulton and sums it up pretty nicely. I get a kick out of it every time I listen to it. You can check out the blog post and audio version here or see below for a nice video that someone put together with the Black Heaven anime series.  read more »

iPhone mania has officially hit and I am astounded at how well Apple markets their products. If only the Apple marketers could promote my podcasts I am sure I would be up to one million listeners/viewers by now.  read more »

I recently took the time to watch Steve Jobs and Bill Gates sit together for an interview at the D conference. You can watch it here. It was all very nice and cordial and at the end they had some very nice things to say about each other. You really get the feeling from the interview that although the two companies compete heavily with each other, on a personal level these two guys really don't hate each other (anymore). In fact, I think they rather truly admire the work that the other has led over the past 25 years.  read more »

I was thinking in the shower the other day (don't ask me why there of all places) that Dell may very well pick Ubuntu to run on their desktop and laptop computers. In case you missed it Dell announced that they would be looking into offering Linux as a choice on their desktop and laptop lines. Ubuntu makes sense for a number of reasons.  read more »

Hopefully, you have all seen our segment in Episode 1 about ZFS. It was mentioned that ZFS was being ported to Linux and BSD. Well the BSD port is the first to become official. You can read the announcement here.  read more »

The president and CEO of the company I work for definitely has "The Schwartz" (if you don't understand this joke go watch the movie "Spaceballs").  read more »

Keep watching the site for some exciting news in the next few days. I am not prepared to say what it is just yet, but I think you will like it.

For all those comic book fans out there you might be interested in this. Jeff Baker and Alex Graham have come up with a quiz that will tell you which super hero you are most like.  read more »

Sun launched an interesting feature on it's home page today about the way the internet is changing the way we view media. It also includes a link to Snapp Radio which combines music from Last.fm or Radio Paradise mashed up with images from Flickr for a slideshow tailored to your tunes.  read more »