<br />

Productivity website Lifehack has put together a list of 10 ways to help get into a state of deep concentration. Writing to-do lists and keeping a schedule may keep you organized, but does it really help you get more done? I believe that organization is important, but what you really need is focus. Being able [...]

“Alberto Gonzales is saying, basically, there are problems of which he cannot speak, for which he is responsible yet not to blame, and that he is the only one who can clean up the mess that he can neither confirm or deny exists. Let me try to put this in schoolyard terms, if I may: [...]

From Media Matters: “On the July 24 edition of Fox News’ Special Report with Brit Hume, on-screen text identified Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) as a Democrat during a report from chief Washington correspondent Jim Angle about Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ July 24 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The text appeared during footage of Specter [...]

I now finally have an excuse to get an HDTV and HD Cable/FIOS. TiVo HD gets official: $299, loaded, with SATA and TTG coming I am addicted to my TiVo and hate watching TV without it. When Verizon called offering FIOS service I turned them down because I couldn’t easily use my Tivo. If this [...]

I’m not a big fan of ring tones. Not that I hate the ability to customize my phone. I just can’t justify the cost through my provider for a 15 to 20 second song clip. Because of this, I’ve resisted custom ringtones on my phone for years. The other night, however, I came across Phonezoo, [...]

Here is another story along the same theme as yesterdays. In King George W.: James Madison’s Nightmare author Robert Scheer frames George W. Bush as the president that our founders warned us about. George W. Bush is the imperial president that James Madison and other founders of this great republic warned us about. He lied [...]

From Mornon land, their listing for Top 13 worst slogan translations. My favorite Pepsi’s “Come Alive With the Pepsi Generation” translated into “Pepsi Brings Your Ancestors Back From the Grave” in Chinese. Technorati Tags: humor Powered by ScribeFire.

The New York Times ran a great editorial today about the power of the purse to curtail the presidential power to make war. If you read what some of the Founding Father’s wrote you would think they were addressing President Bush. “The founders were particularly wary of giving the president power over war. They were [...]

I had a pleasant surprise tonight while working with VMWare. When I installed Windows XP under VMWare I noticed that the sound card it emulated was an ES1371. This is the ENSONIQ (or Creative) AudioPCI. I worked at ENSONIQ through most of the 90s for the Multimedia Products Division and was one of the developers [...]

The Baked Potato Recipe: Recipes: Food Network The Baked Potato Recipe courtesy Alton Brown Show: Good Eats Episode: This Spud’s for You 1 large russet potato (If it looks like Mr. Potato Head(r), you’ve got the right one.) Canola oil to coat Kosher salt Heat oven to 350 degrees and position racks in top and [...]