Once again our glorious leader has managed to say something that just wasn’t the best way to present it. In an attempt to sell Congress on various measures he knows they object to regarding oil prices he stated, “There is no excuse for delay. I know the Democratic leaders have opposed some of these polices […]

Back in the 80’s and early 90’s sound cards were pretty limited and that resulted in a brief period where something known as “Piano Roll Notation” enjoyed a bit of a resurgence. Piano Roll Notation comes from the old concept of a player piano that played songs by reading a roll of material that had […]

For some time now I’ve wanted to try out a fairly new board game called, 1960: The Making of the President. Something about it sounded like my kind of game. I got a chance to play it Wednesday night and was so taken with it that I did something I rarely do and played the […]

Okay, I just bought a new laptop. A bit of background. I previously had an Alienware Area-51 laptop that my previous employer bought for me. Since I’m in the games business it had to have that “I’m one of you” cachet value. The catch here was that the thing weighs like 20 pounds, burns your […]

I’ve had it. This is getting insane now. For some time I’ve taken issue with websites that place demands on my passwords and think they’re doing me some favor by enforcing these. The only thing they’re doing is forcing me to have dozens of different passwords that I can’t recall. My Yahoo account has a […]

I am left to wonder, now that the Democratic side of things is finally winding down, if Barack Obama can choose another running mate other than Hillary Clinton and still manage to win the race in November. Note that as of right now I’m undecided between Obama and John McCain with a lean towards McCain. […]

We’ve been informed by a number of sources, including Vice President Dick Cheney, that no one has given up more in this war on terrorism than our own President George W. Bush. The poor guy has had to sacrifice so much because of this on-going war. The latest casualty in this battle for him is […]

Going back some time I’ve been curious about the sudden influx of high-ranking retired military brass showing up on news channels to give us their “unique” insight into the war and other military matters. At first I assumed it was a typical domino effect. It could have started with a single network and then the […]

Several years ago the mail-based DVD rental service, Netflix, launched and it sounded like a very interesting idea. My wife and I had spent so much money at Blockbuster, mainly on late fees, that we’d adopted the policy of just buying the DVD’s we wanted instead. With late fees we ended up spending that much […]

I’m writing this entry now in Firefox. That isn’t new. However, what is new is that I’m writing this in Firefox that’s running on a flavor of the Linux operating system known as Ubuntu. No, I haven’t abandoned Windows. I’m a gamer so that’s a bit difficult to do these days. I’m currently running this […]

What is the major malfunction with Chris Matthews? This morning he was on the “Morning Joe” show and stated, “We’re stuck in Iraq. 4,000 people are dead now because of decisions made by politicians like the Clintons.” Is he joking with that? Somehow the death of 4,000 soldiers in Iraq is the fault of the […]

Guitar maker Gibson apparently decided that the rejuvenation of the music industry thanks to the smash hits Guitar Hero (and its siblings) and Rock Band was too much good news. They’ve gone suit happy suing everyone remotely involved in it. This includes Wal-Mart, Target, Toys R Us, Amazon, K-Mart, Gamestop…… (I need a breather here… […]