Okay, so maybe it’s not as interesting or as flamboyant as a torn rotator cuff, but it appears that the popping sounds (accompanied at different times by no pain, slight pain, or severe pain) in my shoulder are due to bicipital tendinitis (which is also, but less commonly, spelled tendonitis), or possibly even bursitis. If… Read More: Bicipital Tendinitis »
I’m really surprised by how much Six Apart is planning to charge for Movable Type 3.0, especially when you consider that the only significant new feature (comment management) is offset by new limitations on the number of authors, blogs, and CPUs (UpdateSix Apart has removed the CPU limit from the license, claiming it was a… Read More: Movable Hype 3.0 »
A new review of the Treo 600 showed up on the O’Reilly Network site recently. This review is especially useful if you: Live in Canada Own a Treo 180 and are thinking about upgrading Want to sync your Treo to a Mac And/or are looking for a broad description, with screenshots, of the basic features… Read More: New Treo 600 Review »
My wife recently ordered a 160GB add-on drive kit from weaKnees for our Hughes HDVR2 DirecTiVo and we installed it last Thursday night. It was a quick and easy install, though the only way we could tell the drive had been properly recognized was to wait until we had recorded enough additional programs to go… Read More: DirecTiVo »
I highly recommend The Next Fifty Years: Science in the First Half of the Twenty-First Century, especially to anyone in high school or college who is interested in or is already majoring in science or engineering and is looking for an area to specialize in which will experience rapid growth over the next fifty years.… Read More: Book Review – The Next Fifty Years »
BBC News | HEALTH | Stay healthy with the toilet ‘doctor’ I don’t often get excited about toilets, unless of course we’re talking about my incinerating toilet, but an English company has dared to do the unthinkable – combine a waste removal device with an automated diagnostician. Or some such thing. Dear readers, please direct… Read More: Toilet of the Future »
There’s a new audioblogging service in town, although AudioBlog.com is currently only in beta. So far, the service supports MovableType, TypePad, Blogger, and LiveJournal blogs. One cool aspect of AudioBlog.com is that in addition to audioblogging by phone, you can audioblog from any computer with a microphone and a Flash-enabled web browser. Also, it looks… Read More: AudioBlog.com »
It’s been nearly three weeks since I damaged, and very possibly tore, the rotator cuff in my right shoulder. One or more of the tendons still produce a disturbing pop a couple times a day. Usually there is no pain, but sometimes it can be relatively painful. Overall, though, I think it is getting better.… Read More: Cuff Update »
New Scientist – Credit card only works when spoken to Beepcard has announced a new credit card they have developed that supports audio-based authentication for credit card transactions, via technology embedded within the card itself. This is a very cool idea, assuming they can get past a couple technology and personal adoption issues. Beepcard had… Read More: Audio Credit Card »
Two bad things happened at the MLS website this week, at least with respect to SoccerPhone (it’s a program I wrote that you can use to hear live soccer scores over the telephone). One change is pure unadulterated evil, and the other could be good or evil depending on your aesthetics. The first pure evil… Read More: New MLS Website Broke SocerPhone »