by Dennis Clayton | Jan 9, 2007 | Apple, Cell Phones, Cool Stuff, Gadgets, General, Software, Technical, Technology
The apple phone has finally come out… I won’t go into too many details here except that it is a Quadband GSM (850,900,1800,1900mhz) phone that has 4gb ($499) or 8gb ($599) of flash memory installed. Of course it is also a music and video iPod that can be...
by Dennis Clayton | Dec 27, 2006 | Cool Stuff, General, Humor, Technical, Technology
I was pleasantly surprised this morning at how little spam I had this morning in my primary email box. Almost to the point that I thought something was wrong with my email server… But a few minutes later I saw this on Drudge. Quake cuts off much of Asia Internet...
by Dennis Clayton | Oct 12, 2006 | Cell Phones, Cool Stuff, Gadgets, General, Technical, Technology
I picked up a Nokia 6265i from the local Bluegrass Cellular Store last week. So far, I’ll have to say I’m pretty impressed. I always told myself I would never get a slider phone, but once I used this one for a few minutes, it grew on me. For most...
by Dennis Clayton | Sep 26, 2006 | Cool Stuff, General, Software, Technical, Technology
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been looking for a decent Win32 Jabber server to start testing messaging for a private messaging solution for my friends and family as well as linking to GoogleTalk and other chat services using XMPP Federation. I tried the...
by Dennis Clayton | Aug 28, 2006 | Cool Stuff, General, Technical, Technology
I have been following this for over 10 years now and progress, although slow, is being made. I believe this will be the closet thing I see to having a flying car in my lifetime. The Moller Skycar is a prototype personal VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) aircraft —...
by Dennis Clayton | Jul 19, 2006 | Cool Stuff, General, Humor, Technical
Does the statement, “We’ve always done it like that” ring any bells? The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Because that’s the way they...
