Zombie Dinosaurs

I see that they’re putting sharks in management roles at the Parks & Rec office nowadays.

I’m very excited to announce my second house concert, a follow-up to last year’s show with Kristin Hersh.
Downpilot’s Paul Hiraga will be performing at my home on Friday, February 5. Downpilot is one of Seattle’s true musical gems, and is my reward for having moved to the Seattle area (I discovered Downpilot by accident […]

A few weeks ago, I said, “Hey Marin, you know what would be funny? A version of Lonely Island’s I’m on a Boat, only ours would be about a Christmas tree. We could call it, “I’ve Got a Tree.”
As usual, I considered my contribution to the project complete; I had the brilliant, million-dollar idea, and […]

Last night, I decided to end my relationship with Radio Shack. Over a $10 item.
Radio Shack has always been on the periphery of my tech life. When I need an audio cable, oddball adapter, or remote control toy at Christmas, I’d head to Radio Shack. Not anymore, though. And I guess I’m posting this […]

It’s easy to poke fun at the naivety of our pre-Information Age perspective. That’s why folks love to trot out historical quotes like “I think there is a world market for maybe five computers” [IBM Chairman Thomas Watson, 1943] and “640K is more memory than anyone will ever need” [Microsoft founder Bill Gates in the […]

Fans of this blog — and by "fans," I mean my mom and about 10,000 spambots — might recall that I bought a Dell XPS 720 back at the end of October, 2007. It didn’t work, so Dell swapped it for a replacement, which I finally got in January, 2008, after enough frustration to […]

I have wanted to get back to the voice recognition in Windows Vista for a while. I had messed with it a year ago, and was impressed with how well it worked. But I don’t like having a wired microphone hanging off my head–it limits my mobility–so I abandoned it. This morning, on a […]

Remember my $3000 paperweight with the cool Dell logo on it? The story isn’t over yet.
Indeed, I’ve never had such a highly concentrated collection of problems with a single purchase in my entire life. First of all, let me point out that after waiting for a replacement XPS 720 for a month, the new machine […]

Well, I’m pleased to announce that my latest book has hit the stores. I’ve revised How to Do Everything with Your Digital Camera to its glorious 5th edition. I should point out that Osborne McGraw-Hill has decided to drop the grammatical connective tissue "with your" from the title, so now, it’s apparently just called […]