So, the family has been feeling neglected. You are sitting in your “Den of Computation” illuminated by the harsh glow of an LCD monitor.
Come on, get out of that dark room and join the family again with
The Easy Chair Mount.
Actual Customer Comment:
I play alot [sic] of WoW, and spent most of my time in the den. Now, I play in the same room as my family watching TV.
– C. Haus, Denver CO
It even comes with the option to mount dual monitors so you can play multiple games of online poker without leaving the physical presence of your loved ones (there you go Mr. Jim from Medford). Quality time is a beautiful thing.
While Josh from Missourri says “I may never get up again,” that can only be accomplished with something like this or this for the Mac users.
Get an Easy Chair Mount for each member of the family so you can surf together without ever leaving the living room. And don’t forget the instant Messaging so you can communicate without actually talking while you gather without actually being together.
“I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed, you are still not ready.”
1 Corinthians 3:2 (NIV)
I was listening to a podcast from Wisconsin Public Radio’s “To the Best of Our Knowledge” and kept thinking about what Paul wrote to the the church in Corinth.
You can listen to the pertinent portion here: Segment 1 on June 4, 2006, and read about it here: T.V. OR NOT T.V.
The basic assertion is that television has become more “intelligent” over the years. People have to think, remember, and pay attention to television programming more than they did in the past. Because people have been trained to be more intelligent in their viewing, the popular television programs have been able to take advantage of the heightened sensibilities of the audience.
Continue reading ‘Does TV make you Smarter? How about preaching?’
The news broke about an hour ago so it it may not be until tomorrow that real information appears on the Google Blog, but it is supposed to go live on Google Labs 9:00 AM EDT, Tuesday June 6, 2006.
That’s right, Google is introducing it on 6-6-6!!!
Anyway, for those few lucky spreadsheet fanatics who get there at the right time they will be able to experience online collaborative spreadsheet excitement like never before. Google Style!
I have been known to work up a spreadsheet or two on my wilder days, but I am no data-entry-ophile. I guess this would work well for tracking data for IT systems or for people sharing info long distance.
PS. If you get an “Invite,” could you pass one this way?
Edit: I signed up, but I don’t yet have access. You can see it here: Google Spreadsheets
If you want to know the joke behind the name just Google Serenity Now.
If you want to know what it is about, check out the Security Now page from Steve Gibson’s Gibson Research Corporation site. If you don’t know who Steve Gibson is then you have not been paying detailed attention to computer security for a long time.
Steve is an old school Internet guy who does his programming in Assembly Language and his web design in Plain Old Html (POH). So, while some of what he talks about seems very arcane he knows a lot about the basics of computers and networking.
I have been listening to his podcast for a few weeks now and have listened to just about all of them up to this point (#42 NAT Traversal is on my mp3 player right now). Each podcast episode has a high quality mp3 (12MB – 34MB) for broadband users, low quality mp3 (2MB – 8MB) for slower connection, transcripts (in html, txt, and pdf), and sometimes supplimentary notes).
The episodes on How the Internet Works, How Ethernet Works, WiFi Security, and desktop computer issues are quite an education in themselves.
I have often heard that God answers prayer with either Yes, No, or Not Yet.
So, what do you do when the answer appears to be Zap!
Although, I cannot think of God using lightning to zap people recorded in the Bible. When people think of being zapped by lighting from a deity it is going to be Zeus they are thinking of.
Published on
June 1, 2006 in
Techie.
That sounds selfish, but it is something that software, hardware, and service providers need to remember.
My most recent posts include information about my Internet problems and virtualization software (there is a useful update on it), and this one brings them together.
Comcast made me install software to set up the new-to-me modem I am renting. I don’t trust any software from an ISP. It is usually useless and intrusive. AOL CDs are almost viruses once they get closed in your drive tray. They install lots of junk without asking. The last time I had Comcast set up it added a lot of software, changed my IE homepage and changed the throbber from the IE logo to the Comcast logo. If I wanted those changed I would have done it myself.
I don’t need a disk to set up my computer, but the modem would not connect without it. I set a system restore point, opened the tray, held the “Shift” key while the tray closed (just in case), and then fired up the Altiris SVS and ran the CD through SVS. When I was done I deactivated the layer and the old IE throbber (which I rarely see anyway) was still intact. Cool.