I love the Roomba vacuum when it works. The key is when it works. That’s why we had 4 of them. They just don’t seem to have great durability. We’ve had various models of the 400 and Discover series. But IRobot was offering an upgrade deal, so we sent off for #5, which is a […]
I’ve been enjoying my Kindle 2 for 6 months now, and have started to accumulate quite a number of e-books that will work on the Kindle. (There are a lot of free ones available, especially if you like to read classic science fiction!) I can tell that I’m going to want to use some kind […]
I’ve just finished listening to A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain, from LibriVox (http://librivox.org/a-tramp-abroad-by-mark-twain/) read by John Greenman. Its quite interesting, the chronicle of a trip to southern Europe, which Twain intended to spend walking (i.e. “tramping”) although he kept finding reasons to take other forms of transportation, some of which are quite amusing. Mark […]
I recently needed a stopwatch at work, and forgot that my cell phone had that built in. So I went looking for one for the Palm. What I found is way better than just a stopwatch! The TikTok Timer for Palm is, as the developer’s web site says, “…a simple, no nonsense, timer utility for […]
Breckenridge Elkins is a “tall tale” character, written by Robert E. Howard. That’s the same Robert E. Howard that wrote the Conan the Barbarian stories, although these are quite different. Breckinridge is the biggest man in Bear Creek, and is one of those people that things just happen to… Howard wrote these stories in a […]