From the cell phone geek test @ CNet (via Howardforums , of course) Cell phone geek Face it--you're a cell phone geek. On one hand, it's great that you take the time to know about the technology as you can dispense valuable advice to friends and family. But cell phones aren't the be-all and end-all of human existence, and there's more to life than knowing the differences between Motorola and Nokia. Also, remember that not everyone shares your passion, so unless you're with your fellow ...

Monday I ordered it, wednesday I received it. It is a Audiovox PPC601, the latest in sonverged phone/pocket pc devices. It replaces an elderly iPAQ and a separate phone. It is (to me anyway) unutterably cool to be able to surf the net at fast dialup speeds on a device that fits in my shirt pocket, pretty much wherever I am, as long as I can get a data signal (which is just about everywhere except my apartment, dammit). Tradeoffs include: relatively low battery live - a CDMA cellphone whack...

For my Disney-loving friends. Disney USB Flash Drives

I may have mentioned this before, but we don't have a TV in use. What we do have is a computer with a TV tuner in it (actually, with 2 tuners, but I digress). It has software to do timeshifting and recording to HD; all the useful TiVO functions (including a prgram guide). I've been recording TV shows on and off. This is great for for us; but we have no way of getting the shows off so someone else can watch them. I recently acquired a DVD drive (DVD-R/RAM), and I'm now trying to burn my first ...

I put a RAID in for our home file server (for a variety of reasons, here at the Lair, we keep many files (including our music collection and the My Documents directories for myself and DW) out on a file server. Last year, when we were trying to figure out back-up strategies for roughly 80 gb of data (much of it effectively irreplaceable from source material, and including important financial documentation), we realized that it would be easier to just pop for a RAID controller and another 80 G...

The article I linked to tells you ain a few relatively easy steps how to convert a disposable flash-equipped camera into a rough-and ready stun-gun. Note that some of the logic behind gun-control legislation would call for a ban on flash-equipped disposable cameras as being convertible to offensive uses, and no doubt the TSA will start banning them in carry-on luggage.

Heh. OK - this is a pretty cheesy post, really just a link. But I think it's nifty, so I'm publicising it.