So, we are about to move and I want to test the convenience of moving online. How many businesses, organizations, services, banks have the necessary moving services online? How do those services work? Is in real-time or time delayed. Are they user-friendly? As I take care of the business of [...]

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 [...]

TIVO has introduced their mobile site for controlling your TIVO. It’s at m.tivo.com.  Let’s hope it works better than the web based service for programming your TIVO or the TIVO season pass system. Don’t get me wrong, we love our TIVOs, but I think the usability of the menu to [...]

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 an expert in polling research methodology at all, but I’ve recognize a couple flaws in the polls we constantly see touted in front of us. Sampling methods are flawed and don’t pull from a complete census. Tracking polls work for following trends, but not to predict what’s going [...]

It’s about that time in the Presidential election cycle for the media polls to start meaning absolutely nothing.  This always happens right about the same time the media really starts hyping the spread between the candidates in the poll. There are two issues with looking at nationwide polling data. First, [...]

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 [...]