A few weeks ago, I ran across a cool product – a supermagnet. I joked on my blog that I wanted one for Christmas. Let that be a lesson to me: be careful what you ask for, you might just get it. The day before I left for Christmas break, my team approached my desk …
I’m just completely amazed at the amount of cool stuff that Yahoo! cranked out this year. It’s truly been the year of the product. While I was only personally involved in a few of the released, it’s great to be at a company where so much exciting stuff is happening. Here’s a list of significant …
I want a Supermagnet! Check out this description: 1.5 times stronger than our previous Supermagnets. If you really need unbelievably powerful magnets, here they are. Uses include magnetic steering of nuclear particles in homemade accelerators, levitation devices, magnetic beam amplifiers, scrap iron separators, etc. Beware – you must think ahead when moving these magnets. If …
After Thanksgiving’s gluttony, I decided that I’ve been in better shape in my life. While I’m prone to hike 10-15 miles in a weekend, I don’t do much else unless you consider running between meetings exercise. I switched to diet soda and generally tried to cut back on eating when I was full or simply …
Last night at dinner I was devouring some blue Jell-o and thinking there aren’t many blue foods. In fact, we could think of only one naturally occuring blue food – blueberries. Blue cheese is kinda blue, but that’s the mold not the cheese. Are there any more? Why does food come naturally in every color …
Although my last gadget purchase was a new alarm clock, I don’t use the alarm. I naturally wake up between 7 and 7:30 each morning, Well, except when I don’t. Fortunately I have a backup system. It requires no batteries and is sufficiently annoying to wake me from any slumber. This morning I rolled over …
My PackageAlert service made LifeHacker today. Nifty. This will be a good test of how many packages it can handle at once!
On my list of things I can’t get working is printer sharing from my Windows laptop to my Samsung ML 1740 laser printer attached to my Mac at home. Another item on the list is getting samba file sharing working from outside my router. It works fine inside my network though. I also have a …
How does one deal with 135,027 email messages? That’s a question I had to figure out this week. On Monday, someone complained after returning from vacation that his email password didn’t work anymore. That was strange. He said his email would either hang or immediately say his password was wrong. He put in a request …
More than my answering machine, I’ve hated my alarm clock for a long time. About 10 years in fact. I bought it in college when the alarm on my previous one stopped working. Of course it stopped working on a morning when I had to get up for an 8 am class. The professor had …
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