Found this post in an old blog while conducting an internet enema, and it filled me with nostalgia for the days before smartphones. Thought I’d re-post it. Last week, I found myself shivering with cold sweats. It had been ages since I had spent a ridiculous amount of money on a marginally useful gadget. So, [...]
If you’re using MobileMe push mail, and you make changes to your mail accounts (any of them, even if you add one), it sometimes goofs up the push. Dunno why; it shouldn’t. But it seems to, and I spent ages trying to diagnose why my MobileMe mail wasn’t pushing properly after I added a Gmail [...]
If you haven’t tried out Del.icio.us, you don’t know what you’re missing, whether your’re on an iPhone or a desktop. Del.icio.us is an online bookmark manager (free) that allows you to post bookmarks to it and tag them. These bookmarks are then available anywhere. The advantage of this may not be immediately obvious. It’s not [...]
Today, I’d like to take a moment to pay my respects to the greatest gizmo of all time: The Nintendo Power Glove. For those of you who don’t remember, the Power Glove was released as a peripheral to the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1989. That is also, coincidentally, when it entered my heart.
Seriously. Unless you’re a gadget nut, write a tech blog, or are particularly dependent on your cell phone, you’re not going to give a shit about this post. Even if you are, you probably still won’t care. But I’m annoyed.
The lavatory at work just got one of these new-fangled paper towel dispensers with the electric eye. Y’know, the kind you wave your hand in front of to get your four-square-inch towel. Does anybody else ever feel like they’re performing the Jedi Mind Trick on those things? In honor of Smivey: Electric-eye paper towel dispensers, [...]
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