Category > Technology

Batteries can swell?

That was my first question after I searched for the cause of my troubles today. You see, this morning my keyboard and trackpad on my Macbook Pro started to respond strangely. Keys wouldn’t work and the trackpad was malfunctioning. Also, the button was strangley bowed up. I hoped on my wifes computer (it being right [...]

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Apple Cares?

So it turns out that, after having my screen replaced in my Mac Book Pro once already, I have to get it replaced again. I am, to say the least, a little cheesed at Apple support at the moment. The back story: I was using my MBP, working away, and all the sudden my screen [...]

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Technically Family

You know, I always find it weird when a family member contacts me via MySpace, Facebook or Twitter asking to friend them. I mean, I seemed to be the technically inclined one in the family; messing with computers, taking apart toasters, etc., so its a surprise to see, say, my 10 year younger cousin on [...]

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Popcap Games = Awesome

Here is a happy story about the customer service folks. They get a lot of bad press, but these folks are really quite amazing. I know that a lot of people like Popcap games. They are fun. Ridiculously fun. One of their more fun games is called Peggle. My whole family played it and they [...]

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Yes, I am a man (so says this website)

So my friend pointed out a website called Gender Analyzer (http://www.genderanalyzer.com/). Not sure how he found it but its pretty interesting nontheless. If you plug in my blog (linky) it says its 71% sure that its written by a man. It also worked when looking at Twitter feeds (check it). However, it can be wrong. [...]

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Bot Lab Launch-eth

So I was helping out my friend Jennifer with a CSS issue (lightbox was being dunb on IE) when I actually stopped and checked out the site it was for. Bot-Lab it is called. And it looks really nifty. Basically, a group of folks gets together (in the Seattle area for now) for a tinker [...]

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