John Naughton from the Guardian looks at which health care sites you can trust as a follow-up to Microsoft’s cyberchondria study. Most of the data he quotes is old, but the general premise comes down to the fact that you have to be very careful how much trust you put [...]

I got a new Blackberry Bold and it is compatible with the qik live video streaming service so you can check out my latest live video on my qik page or follow me on twitter and check in live whenever you see the live streaming note. The video quality is [...]

I finished my ubuntu experiment today and went back and wiped my family computer and reinstalled Windows XP. It’s not that I didn’t have a good ubuntu experience, but it’s just my family kept wanting to install programs that only ran on Windows. I finally gave in when my daughter [...]

I’ve had the privilege of serving on a couple of jurors– both of which convinced me that I would probably be better off with a bench trial rather than a juror of my peers. The Sun newspaper reports another strike against the jury system as a british juror asked her [...]

Reuters reports that Facebook is considering buying twitter if the details can be agreed upon. Facebook already offers the “update– tell me what you’re doing” service that twitter has, but twitter has focused on status and mobile where facebook builds a whole social network.  In fact my twitter account automatically [...]

Do you have cyberchondria? Are you always googling what’s hurting today to figure out what you have and coming up with a new fatal disease every new day? For example, when you searched for headaches did you see all the articles about brain tumors or find the ones about caffeine [...]

I’m not into virtual games and virtual worlds, but I’ve ran across a couple of stories in the news the past few days where a crime was created in a virtual world (like Second Life) and then people were charged by the real police for a crime in the real [...]

In previous years, this post may have confirmed that I am a nerd, but getting ubuntu linux up and running at home was so easy that I think it may be the new easy to use operating system for everyone to use. We have six year old Dell desktop that [...]

The 15k circulation Shelby Star has developed the Star Car to make provide their reporters with multimedia tools and make their online presence known. The $60,0000 SUV (lower on the page) features GPS tracking, wifi cloud, wifi camera, dash webcams, video cameras, scanners and multiple laptops. For some reason this [...]

The other day I logged into my mortgage company’s site to check what we owed on our house that we are selling. I probably haven’t logged into that site in a year or two. The next day I had phone call from my mortgage company checking to see if everything [...]