Not much bandwidth is wasted on this blog cheer-leading companies. Especially companies that already have a track record of creating incredible products and generating enormous profits. Please don’t consider me an Apple fanboy. This post is being written on a Samsung/Windows machine using a Google document and by the time you’re reading this I’ll be [...]

I’ve had this mouse for almost nine years now.  I remember exactly when I got it.  At the time, optical mice were just hitting the mainstream and mine was purchased to go with my new laptop. In all that time this mouse has lived in 7 places in 4 cities.  I’ve bought two wireless mice [...]

Do you remember when you used go to the store and buy music? Then you’d go home, put it in your player and listen to it? Then you would own that music forever or until you lost it moving but it doesn’t matter because you weren’t sure what you were thinking when you bought it [...]

The smartphone today is as prevalent as the Motorola RAZR was a few years ago when carriers started giving them away for free.  Now tweens, great grandmothers, and even a homeless guy I pass on the way to work have some kind of smartphone. We say they are so popular because it allows you to [...]

NASA is now but a shell of its former self. Relegated mostly to launching satellites and resuming the search for bacteria on foreign worlds. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, but NASA won’t get the kind of pop culture attention it once did. Hopefully the private sector and step up, but the days of [...]

The new iPhone is out and many people have rushed out to get themselves one.  Mostly really just to play with Siri, Apple’s new voice-guided assistant that can help you do everything from setting an alarm to the answer of a math problem to composing an email with a simple button press and your words.  [...]

Fans of football or video games may be familiar with the the John Madden Curse, but for others I might need to explain. There is a very popular video game that provides realistic football game play called “Madden”. Since the late 90s the game has featured a well known football player on the cover each [...]

The telecommunications industry has always been a fickle one. They had monopolies, they were broken up, they gradually monopolized again, and face very little competition. They were originally granted monopoly power in order to make it worth their investment in all the telephone poles they had to put up. Nowadays the industry makes more money [...]