For some time now I’ve seen several videos around showing off what seemed like a miracle machine. The Looj from iRobot. iRobot, if you are unaware, are the same geniuses behind the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner. It looks pretty spiffy, don’t you think? Now I have never used a Roomba myself but they seem to [...]

Been using version 9.04 of Ubuntu, Jaunty Jackelope, for a few weeks now. I have it running on 2 of my 3 personal machines and I get pretty regular use out of it for my daily computing. The first machine I installed it on was my Asus 901 EeePC. I did a fresh install on [...]

I finally broke down and bought an Asus EEE PC netbook several weeks ago.  I’ve been threatening to purchase one since they originally came out.  I carefully compared what was available and got what I felt were the best features for the price.  I settled on the 901 model.  It had all the features I [...]

This past Friday the first public beta of Windows 7 was release. Well… Sort of. Apparently there were enough hungry geeks looking for an improvement on Windows Vista to immediately bring Microsoft’s servers to its knees. Long before the beta was actually released at noon, the Microsoft’s product site for Windows 7 and the Windows [...]

WordPress 2.7 has just been released and I wasted no time loading it up. It seems like WordPress gets updated as often as the newspaper. I find it comforting to know that its continually being worked on. With this upgrade comes an interface-lift. Though it wasn’t a terrible interface before, I thought there was some [...]