About a week ago, when all of the Boxee hooplah was going on, I bought an Apple TV to install XBMC (XBox Media Center)/Boxee on. I have hacked a few things like the Linksys NSLU2 (aka The Slug) and I have to say, this was by far the easiest install I have ever done. [...]

Not to be one of those paranoid newborn parents, but here is some pretty crazy information on Herpes Simplex I (ala Cold Sores) and II and newborn children…scary. Keep people with cold sores from touching your newborn for a while seems to be the prudent course of action.

The Flav said it best, “Don’t believe the hype.”
Once again the retards in Washington D.C. fell for the hype, or are going to use it as their excuse. The new mantra is that it is better to do something than nothing. Of course, observing is not considered doing “something” by people who don’t have [...]

For those of you trying to install Ubuntu on an IBM Thinkpad x22 or X2x series laptop, you will need to hit F6 and then enter vga=771 and then press enter when the installer menu comes up. I ended up finding success using the “Ubuntu 8.10 Alternate CD” ISO. The Thinkpad laptops’ video doesn’t [...]

The US TARP (Trobled Asset Rescue Program) was sold as a way for the government to help the markets work out f the ~1 Trillion dollars worth of “troubled” (read: BAD) assets (read: LOANS) that are estimated to exist today. Well in a classic governmental move, they have apparently removed the first two letters [...]

It is interesting, it seems that there are a lot of people that are driven to the top…I think that is probably true of the vast majority of ultra successful (monetarily) people…they are driven by something in their lives and they will settle for nothing. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people like this that [...]

Gavin Golod, born November 3, 2008 at 3:24pm. Our amazing little boy…