Android army keeps growing as Dell enlists; Will the mobile OS war follow PC history?

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=27310&tag=trunk;content
        What users want are devices that are easy to use and that do what they want them to. At the moment, only Palm, Apple and Google have really touched that market, though RIM has at least tried with it’s latest versions of the Blackberry; the Curve and the Bold. Up to now, Nokia has been [...]

Photography, Digital and Otherwise

I’m not a professional, but I’ve been taking pictures for over 40 years with a very broad array of cameras from an old Argus twin-lens reflex through Instamatic-style with 110 and 127 cartridge films through 35mm point-and-shoot and SLRs. I started shooting digital with an Olympus point-and-shoot, migrating through an Olympus C2100uz semi-pro p&s to [...]

The best way to learn your home…

        … is to tear it down and rebuild it.
        Ok, that’s not literally true, but it is close. As you are already aware, we had a summertime nor’easter come through late last week and revealed a serious leak in the roof of our living room extension. Speaking with a sub-contractor we know and in tearing down [...]

Non-Drop Ceilings

Have you ever wanted to have a tiled ceiling but didn’t want to glue the tiles to drywall where they might fall or where the glue probably stinks so bad it gives you a headache?
Do you live in a multi-story house where you have wiring between the floors that’s essentially inaccessible?
Does that ceiling [...]

Early to Bed and Early to Rise — Riiiight!

        Then again, I’m here, aren’t I? I can’t believe how exhausted I’ve felt these last few weeks, and yesterday gave me a message that fully explains why.
        For those of you who don’t know, I live somewhere just about the middle of the megalopolis known as the Northeast Corridor. This area received a relatively unusual rainstorm [...]

Roadside Restaurants – Part 2

        Some weeks back, I wrote about a local restaurant I’d seen several times and finally took the chance to visit. I was quite impressed. Enough so that I plan to go back and photograph it to add to that review. I also meant for that to be merely the first in a number of reviews [...]

Summertime Blues

Note: This posting will go to both of my active sites.
Summertime finally hit at my home just about the beginning of August. The temperatures have finally made it into the 90s on a regular basis and as a result, my energy and enthusiasm have waned somewhat–though that doesn’t mean they’ve come to a full stop. [...]

Snapshot Camera

As many of you already know, I use a Nikon D60 for most of my shooting. It’s great for taking, shall we say, planned photographs. If you have the time to prepare the camera, it’s great! In fact, my wife used her D40 to good benefit when we took our 2008 Jeep Wrangler out for [...]

Restoring a Black Plastic Bumper–Part 3

        It’s been almost a month since I posted Part 2, a month where the car has sat out in the weather full time, though the bumper has been protected from direct sunlight by the body of the car itself. That really hasn’t protected the shoe polish. The bumper is back nearly to the same shade [...]

20 Most Worthless Pieces of Junk – Rebutted — or Supported

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Above, you’ll find the link to an interesting viewpoint of what the blogger finds useless in everyday life. In some cases I agree with him, in others, I don’t. Let’s see why.
#20 Rice Cookers: I agree that the rice cooker is a (nearly) single-purpose device that is nearly useless to the average [...]

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