I've been holding out on an MP3 player for over a year now. My biggest frustration with things like the iPod is that they have bad battery life and support few sound formats, and their compatibility is mediocre. ... So if I were to list my requirements they would be: * Play MP3, WMA, Ogg - (I ripped most of my CD's to Ogg format) 10-15 hour battery life - (iPod does 6?

A coworker recently setup a Comcast Digital Video Recorder (DVR), which is basically a mini-computer recording TV onto a hard-drive much like a VCR. He listed an amazing and convenient feature set which almost impressed me. I asked him one simple question: Must it be left on 24/7? Answer: Yes. He admitted that he didn't like that part either. This brings up my frustration with many similar new gagdets, appliances and most software.

I normally don't like to post advertisement on my blog, but I need to get this done. Anyways, I'm selling my brother's internet webpad. He owes me big for this. In any event, I crafted a progear webpad page for it. I would appreciate if any readers take a look and see if they or someone they might know would be interested. If anybody knows of some good forums I could post, that would help too.

This post is a bit more technical, excuse the over-simplifications. Many geeks have been raving about Mozilla releasing Firefox last year. As wonderful as it all is, I'm still not impressed. Let me explain. It will be 7 years on January 22 that Netscaped announced plans for an open source browser. It wasn't until 4 years later in June 2002, that Mozilla 1.0 was finally released. Prior in 2001 Netscape had about 15% of the browser market share compared to Microsoft's 75%.

I was looking at my brother's LCD display. He had a remote VNC session open, flipping through some PDF file. It looked like some sort of language reference. “What sort of language is that?" “ASL” “for?" “DSDT table” “huh?" “ACPI” “ohhh, I see” Yeah, that's us.