And He Blogs

Something got in my way of writing this on February 22, 2009. It’s name was Bluehost. Now I don’t really hold a whole lot against Bluehost. I know they are trying to provide a good service, just like many other web hosting companies. No, this is not about what got in the way of that [...]

Tags: beale, dailyshow, economy, madashell

Then ask this guy . . .

President Obama not only makes his case for why we need the stimulus package, but he announces a new website to track the spending of it - Recovery.gov. If your reaction to all this is “We’ll see”, then you’re right. We will.
Hat tip to Eric Holscher for his tweet!

Tags: government, obama, president, YouTube

The University of Mary Washington has always taken great pride in its athletics program, and includes some highly ranked teams. However, it was also good to see, as fellow UMW staff member Seth Casana pointed out to me, that the UMW Athletics department is going to broadcast some games live. They will be using [...]

Image by Andrew Feinberg via Flickr

How’s that title for an attention grabber? It basically translates to saying, unless you’re a bad parent, you should drop what you’re doing and pay attention. In blogs, newscasts, and almost everywhere else that you turn we hear the warnings. Scary warnings about food, travel, drugs, and now the de [...]

Mark Cuban has lots of ideas. His best one was back in the late ’90s when he decided to create a webcasting business that was ultimately sold for millions of dollars to Yahoo! Cuban may well have another great idea to save Internet video, but I’ll leave commenting on his ideas to a possible future [...]

Tags: hd, HDTV, video

* = in some areas
The Internet is great for fact checking. When it comes to fact checking, I find that Paul Thurrott does a great job with this. When it comes to the new iPhone, Paul does some debunking of the hype surrounding the new 3G version. The purpose of this post is to bring [...]

This is a post that I’ve been contemplating for a while and it will not just be a rant, but offer some advice for fixing issues with Windows Vista. I’ll also offer a little perspective to Microsoft’s new OS, something lacking in today’s blogospheric culture. It took an article in PC World to say [...]

 
Flickr Photo courtesy of Sellers Patton
I wonder if Fox Interactive/News Corp. had any influence on the policy of Photobucket considering babies in diapers as “nudity”. Their terms of service lists nudity as one of the restrictions when uploading photos, but this is a bit excessive, no? Seems this policy got some attention when diaper company [...]

‘Tis the season . . .

 
Even with Apple’s Leopard and its more then 300(!) new features, Blu-ray playback isn’t one of them. Yet. Macworld is this week and rumors are starting about Apple launching into the high-definition disc fray. Will it be Blu-ray only? Apple is firmly in the blue camp. Will the combo drive now be a Blu-ray reader [...]