Archive

• Alto, New Mexico
• Detecting ChatGPT and AI-Generated Text in School Papers
• Beware the ‘Storification’ of the Internet
• Sweet Berry Farm
• How Ranked Choice Voting Works
• Blaze Foley sings Clay Pigeons
• Report: Texans Suffering from Inequitable Broadband Access
• The End of the iPod
• Grand Canyon National Park
• Sony World Photography Awards 2022 National & Regional Awards Winners
• The Web is (Still) Almost Entirely Inaccessible to People with Disabilities
• Winter flying
• 5G Rollout is a Disaster for Airlines in the U.S. But Why Not in Europe?
• The Secret History of the First Real Smartphone 
• The Passion of Creation (1892) – Leonid Osipovich Pasternak
• Too Many People Still Use Windows XP
• Schoodic Peninsula, Maine
• Portland, Maine
• Nostalgic Instruction
• Chef
• Time Machine vs Migration Assistant
• Bradley Koda, the Parts Seller Keeping Atari Machines Alive
• How to Choose a Portable Generator
• Easter
• My Most Read Stuff of 2020
• Quick Links for December 22, 2020
• Dept. of Homeland Security: 2020 “The Most Secure in American History”
• COVID-19 and the Texas Economy
• Bar Harbor, Maine
• Boothbay Harbor, Maine
• Are You Better Off Than You Were 4 Years Ago?
• The Time Kamala Harris Lived in Champaign-Urbana
• Good Trouble, Necessary Trouble
• Disney Reopening Video Set to “Don’t Fear the Reaper”
• COVID-19: Rural Texas Hospitals Brace for Impact
• My Review of the 2020 MacBook Air
• Monday, May 25, 2020
• Get Lost
• Andrea Bocelli Singing “Amazing Grace” in Milan, Piazza Duomo
• Monday, March 30, 2020
• 2020 and the Death of Information Technology
• IKEA Instructions for COVID-19
• Sunday, March 15, 2020
• Italians in Lockdown and Lessons in Resiliency
• Inside my 2011 Apple Macbook Air
• AP Style Guide for Writing About Coronavirus
• Fourteen Years Ago I Celebrated One Year of Podcast Listening
• Monday, March 2, 2020
• Humble Book Bundle: Cybersecurity 2020
• Kirsten Gillibrand Proposes U.S. Data Protection Agency
• Ted Williams
• Online Archive of Mexican Cookbooks 1789-present
• Westminster, London
• This Old Cat
• Paris, France, January, 2020
• Borough Market, London, England
• Arriving in London
• OpenAirplane Shuts Down
• A Little More Than a Year Ago I Went Home
• WWII Air Combat Techniques
• The Health Benefits of Daily Fasting
• Revisiting the Tram Diaries
• Schools in Rural Texas Find Workarounds to Address Lack of Broadband, Digital Divide
• The Home Computer Christmas War of 1983
• Thanksgiving 2019
• Gahan Wilson (1930-2019)
• Loneliness is Instagram’s Hottest Trend
• Tuesday, October 8, 2019
• Saturday, September 7, 2019
• Thursday, August 29, 2019
• The Highway’s Jammed with Broken Heroes on a Last Chance Power Drive
• Is Becoming a Pilot Difficult?
• View From a Sunday Walk
• Friday, August 9, 2019
• The Autumn Light
• Wednesday, July 31, 2019
• Tuesday, July 30, 2019
• The Card Shop
• The One About the Award
• IFR Oral Exam / Checkride Study Guide
• ForeFlight Acquired by Boeing
• Flying Fredericksburg
• Regaining Night Currency
• Instrument Training Update #2: Holding Patterns, DME Arcs
• Dispatch from Estes Park, Colorado: Part 2
• Dispatch from Estes Park, Colorado
• My Year in Books: 2018 Edition
• Still One of My All Time Favorite Moments
• Leaving Facebook
• Instrument Training Update
• Harvard vs. Yale 2018
• This Must Be The Place
• Instrument Training Lesson 1
• Hot and Fast Smoked Texas Brisket
• My Experience with an In-flight Engine Failure
• Aviation Decision Making
• Back to Rome
• More Backcountry Flying
• The OpenAirplane Universal Checkout
• Cubs Spring Training Wrap-Up: 2016 Edition
• Labor Day Weekend Flying: Lockhart, Texas
• First Flights of 2015
• Amazon’s War of the Words
• All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
• Flying Sonoma and Napa Valleys
• Saturday, April 5
• Gmail Adding One-click Option to Unsubscribe from Marketing Emails
• Dusk Landing at Lockhart, Texas
• Court Upholds Willy-Nilly Gadget Searches Along U.S. Border
• A tour of the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Sunita Williams
• Preparing for your private pilot checkride: Here’s what you need to know
• Google set to update Street View
• Checkride preparation
• The economic impact of general aviation in Texas
• Pogue on iOS 6 maps
• Adam Yauch, 1964-2012
• Apple now offers Universal movies on iCloud..Fox next?
• My flight bag
• “That’s how you know it’s real”
• Ice Cube on the architecture of Charles and Ray Eames
• On SOPA/PIPA
• Using GIS to solve common problems in local government, city planning
• Trailer for Wes Anderson’s new movie, Moonrise Kingdom
• Privacy rights complicated by employee-owned devices?
• Why Best Buy is going out of business … gradually
• B-29 Superfortress “FiFi” at Austin airport
• Flight training journal for September 25
• Video: The grace and splendor of the Lockheed U-2
• Details of Amazon’s Kindle Tablet
• Woman scammed by wooden iPad salesmen
• Call Tim, to see how his day is going
• Celebrating 102
• Siracusa’s excellent Lion review
• Flight Training Journal for June 11: Landings
• Photo: Space Shuttle Endeavour and Space Station together for last time
• Flight Training Journal for June 4
• Virginia
• Flight Training Journal for May 22
• Flight Training Journal for May 15
• Apple offering free repairs for iPod touches, iPhones, and Macs damaged in the Japan quake and tsunamia
• Google I/O Extended
• Tim O’Reilly on digital rights management and e-books
• Angry Birds: The Movie [Trailer]
• The Guardian: 10 years of the iPod
• Our SXSW 2011 Presentation on Visualizing Government Data is now online [Updated]
• My SXSW 2011 Panel: Visualizing Government Data for Public Trust
• Check out my interview with Doc Searls
• Hangover 2 trailer
• 2011 MacBook Pro upgrade
• 2011 MacBook Pro details leaked?
• Ferris Bueller’s Wrigley Field scene explored
• Flipboard’s Mike McCue on how chasing Web traffic is hurting journalism
• Boot Camp partitioning errors: Quick fix
• Yeah. So about those 2011 MacBook Pros.
• Why Dropbox is better than everything else
• Timbuk2
• How to publish your eBook on Amazon
• What will be the last Steve Jobs inspired Apple product?
• Creepy Jesus bust in Austin antiques store
• Lend Kindle books to friends and family
• Four predictions for 2011
• What Wikileaks really tells us about government and policy
• Apple releases iOS 4.2
• Enough with The Beatles – today’s real news is on the iPhone
• OSX 10.6.5 and the Dell Mini 10v Hackintosh
• Magazine editor plagiarizes blogger, claims Internet is public domain
• Qrank set to launch movie and sports channels, currently serving 200K users
• Five-year old boy sells drawings on Etsy to help pay for Leukemia treatment
• Easy HTML coding and blogging with Markdown
• Russia’s failed space program in pictures
• McDonald’s Happy Meal won’t decompose even after six months
• Eric Stoltz as Marty McFly
• Posterous gets a full feature iPhone app
• Facebook now lets you download all your stuff, adds groups
• The value of plain language in government communications
• Apple TV shipping
• Wells Fargo extends the olive branch, tweaks Twitter feed
• Texas Gulf fishermen recover from oil spill, misperception
• Wells Fargo uses its Twitter to tell customers they’re not on Twitter
• Why I won’t be ruling out analogue books anytime soon
• Twitter launches new services
• A quick look at the Goodwill Computer Museum
• The Girl With The Old School Geek Toys
• AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead’ gets a trailer
• My latest Fiscal Notes article
• Support government transparency: Vote for my SXSW panel
• U.S. overturns California’s same-sex marriage ban
• Consider the Snapper
• Congratulations, Hawk
• The iPhone 4 has killed the competition.
• Fan being run into by Ichiro Suzuki
• Don’t forget…
• In which i buy an iPad
• iPhone 4’s FaceTime commercial shows you exactly how not to hold your new iPhone
• How Apple employees are instructed to handle iPhone 4 reception complaints
• A review of the iPhone 4, as written from an iPhone 4 at 35,000 feet
• Unboxing the iPhone 4
• Oil in the Gulf, two months later: The Big Picture
• New York Times profiles Foxconn factory worker
• Ecto blogging software for Mac OSX
• The rookie card that all dreams were made of
• Iowa Cubs vs Round Rock Express, June 1, photo gallery
• BP’s worst-case scenario: Oil at Christmas
• Creators of Farmville, Mafia Wars acquire Austin gaming company
• Stuff I’m reading, listening to and writing
• ACL 2010 lineup: Did USA Today just announce the headliners?
• Why Facebook will buy Foursquare
• This is what deregulation looks like
• Steam for Mac
• Obsessive
• A quick look at the state of geolocation services
• It’s time for a geosocial community, and what I’m doing about it
• A few thoughts on the iPad
• Austin tacos? There’s an app for that
• Four-part French documentary on the history of techno
• A quick review of the WordPress for iPhone app
• Beerland doesn’t care about your crappy hipster blog and would like for you to leave
• Turn your social media strategy into your customer service strategy
• Video of the 1980s breakdancing madness that stole the 2010 Rackspace SXSW party
• Lauren and Mark Cuban at SXSW Interactive
• Leo Laporte crowdsurfs during live broadcast at SXSW Digg party [video]
• Leo Laporte interviews Kevin Rose’s parents at the Big Digg Shindigg @ SXSW
• WordPress hosting BBQ at SXSW tomorrow
• Attendee bags at SXSW [unbelievable]
• Dr. Neuroscience: Listen to Your Brain video #sxsw
• SXSW day 2 with Mark Cuban
• SXSW day 2
• SXSW Interactive is about to kick off
• Inside Ryne Sandberg’s home: Video tour
• iPhone repair at the Apple Store in Austin
• Lets meet up at SXSW 2010
• On Giuliano Bugialli’s The Fine Art of Italian Cooking, a photo essay
• Facebook now feels like the work of clumsy engineers
• My pick for best Italian food in Austin
• Can a case be made for chief social media officers?
• What if Wes Anderson directed Spider-Man? [video]
• CDC’s Twitter guidelines document is nine pages of viral goodness
• Playing with Wordpess for iPhone
• Lessons in social media policy from the EPA
• 7 things I like about the Amazon Kindle
• Sunday shopping and successful corn popping
• ‘MacHeads’ is an accidental study in creating passionate users
• Colorado Mountaineering 2009
• On ‘Where the Wild Things Are’
• Another spoke in the hub
• Best snowboarding video you may ever see
• Gunship in action
• Bob Dylan and the Rolling Stones perform ‘Like a Rolling Stone’
• Travis Pastrana 1st Double Backflip in Competition XGAMES
• Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone’s vault
• Dumbest thief ever
• Real life Grand Theft Auto
• Hawk vs. Rattlesnake
• Mr. T. vs. Best Buy
• Linux shows up in the Mac ads
• Cricket suffering from parasitic worm commits ‘suicide’
• Does YouTube own your content?
• Jimmy Page: Age 14
• Fish with ‘human-like’ teeth caught in Texas
• OpenOffice steps up rhetoric in Microsoft’s backyard
• Burger King circa 1982
• San Francisco’s Market Street in 1905
• Comcast Censors ABC’s Nightline
• Chad Vader – Darth’s younger brother as a day shift manager
• World’s largest nuclear explosion: Tsar 50 megaton bomb
• Nintendo Cereal Commercial
• Heat Vision and Jack pilot
• Video of Bush’s expletive
• Army tankers react to suspected looters
• The Shining: alternate trailer
• A Linux timeline
• Radio controlled attack helicopter armed with automatic air gun
• Creepy vintage barbecue commercial
• Pee-Wee Herman’s PSA on crack cocaine
• Office Space Super Friends
• Pantyhose as a fashion accessory
• Behind the scenes at Family Guy
• Frank Zappa on CNN’s Crossfire
• Animation unleashed
• Vintage Miller Beer commercial
• Cool marketing campaign
• Classic Atari 2600 and McDonald’s commercial
• The effects of beer
• The lost Mac vs. PC ads
• College Baseball Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony 2006 (video)
• One year of podcasting
• Worst new blooper ever
• Back to the Future: The Enchantment Under the Sea Dance Revisited
• Chimp plays Pac-Man
• Cat climbs into glass bottle
• Beretta Xtrema2 shotgun demonstration
• BigDog Military Robot Transport
• Google Video Categories you didn’t know about
• Microsoft to let you download your iTunes library for free
• Amazing Iraq sandstorm
• 35 face shots in 32 seconds
• Lucas in Love
• Japanese ’24’ parody
• Comcast box starts fire in home
• Grape stomping reporter suffers tragic accident
• Orson Welles drunk commercial outtakes
• Pac-Man 3D
• 1.75M student loan borrowers have personal data compromised
• Amusement park themed after Dahl’s ‘Chocolate Factory’ set to open
• ESPN anchor heckled at NBA draft
• David Lee Roth goes bluegrass
• Stephen Colbert on Guantanamo Bay
• First Atari 2600 commercial
• Vintage video shows ‘the difference between the sexes’
• Stevie Wonder on Sesame Street
• Amazing 12-year old drummer
• Nirvana Live and Unplugged in New York
• Eighty skydivers take formations
• Onboard camera captures bird striking, downing an F-16
• Scientology show down caught on video
• How to avoid being arrested (video)
• A note on comments
• Comcast tech fired for sleeping on the job
• MAC OSX booting on a Dell Latitude d600
• 7 steps to deleting a shortcut in Windows Vista
• WWII color guncam footage
• Starlings nearly take down a tree (video)
• FIrst ever iPod commercial
• Why do you do what you do?
• Ohio student tried to warn officials of network vulnerability four years before incident
• The story of homeless bloggers
• Comcast horror stories
• Comcast Tech caught sleeping on the job
• Netflix set to offer movie downloads
• Empire Strikes Back re-enacted with action figures
• Nintendo’s new commercial
• Craigslist Lubbock launches
• How to win the war against telemarketers, junk mail
• 1979 Star Wars Drunk Driving PSA
• Today’s links
• Google launches Picasa Web Albums – Flickr Killer?
• Wrigley bullpen gets WiFi
• Jack Thompson launches new attack on video games
• Weird Al makes more money from CDs than he does iTunes
• Shhhh! Google is listening to you
• Today’s links
• Where does your senator stand on Net Neutrality?
• On the set of Spider Man 3
• Gnarls Barkley performs in Star Wars costumes
• Net Neutrality: Who voted for what?
• How to get Windows Vista Beta
• Blog lands dueling professors in court
• From animation student to Simpsons director
• Angelina Jolie becomes a Web squatter
• Mandela explains the meaning of Ubuntu
• Format your drive using Notepad
• Footage of Pirate Bay Bust
• Dell Partners with Skype
• iPod integrated into Major League Baseball workouts
• Natalie Portman Star Wars skit acted out by The Sims
• Recover your bandwidth from Windows XP
• I want a free software program that will …
• Google skips Memorial Day Art
• Pumpcast: fake newscast on gas pumps freaks out bystanders
• Can your flat panel do this?
• Google and Dell team up to provide software on new PCs
• Super Mario Brothers on Ice Video
• Steve Ballmer Windows 1.0 commercial
• Lego iPod Dock
• Report: Rove indictment imminent
• Mass Effect: Best Game Footage Ever?
• Is file sharing really America’s problem?
• iTunes has Red Hot Chili Peppers fans red hot angry
• Blogging Ruidoso
• Apple threatens legal action against Web site that links to user manual
• iPods help trapped miners pass the time
• Cash’s final song set for July 4 release
• Daou on Colbert
• McDonald’s offers DVD’s to go
• Mac OSX on Acer Aspire?
• Super Mario Kill Bill
• University of Texas network hacked
• Best Rube Goldberg machine yet
• Dragon’s Lair: 1982 classic game from beginning to end
• Old school Sesame Street
• NOLA mayoral candidate caught Photoshopping herself…in NOLA
• Google Calendar launches
• Best jobs in America
• Why is Bose so popular?:
• Barry Bonds BALCO scandal
• Forty minutes of aviation oddities, accidents
• Google Earth April Fools
• Ultimate Back to the Future toy
• Today I met Cesar Chavez’s brother
• At least 30 more ISPs subpoened by DOJ – this time not just Google
• Fix the Word copy-and-paste format annoyance
• Ballmer
• CGI Optimus Prime
• Disney takes on Venereal Disease Education
• Lego Thriller
• Star Wars lost clip?
• MS delays Vista
• Don’t copy that floppy!
• Amazing CGI
• What kids do with MySpace
• Ethernet Cable soldiers
• Helicopter attempts to fly between two trees
• NES Light Gun – Alarm clock
• Superman is Methodist
• Spring cleaning for your PC
• Why AOL is still a miserable experience
• First full length feature movie now available at iTunes
• I’m featured on Geek News Central
• ‘Happy face’ photographed on Mars
• Google to sell ebooks?
• How to maximize your cable/DSL performance using Windows XP
• Did you know … ?
• How to import archived Outlook email into Gmail
• March Jams
• I got Dugg
• Die Hard Cubs fan slides face-first in Wrigley Field latrine
• How to use Outlook to backup your Gmail account
• Team unveils Krispy Kreme Cheeseburger
• Top 5 uses for an iPod at work
• Reminder for Gmail users …
• Does this video show the new video iPod?
• Thanks for the memories
• More Cowbell: Google Talk Easter Egg
• The bittorrent song
• Is Telecom the new Big Oil?
• What is Blu-Ray?
• More vintage video game commercials
• Post Traumatic Apple Event Disorder – The Joy of Tech
• Vintage Video: Duck and cover in a nuclear blast
• ‘Word Processing Error’ leads to $7 billion taxpayer expense, oil industry profit
• Thinksecret: video iPod debut near
• CNET: TiVo to tighten grip on children’s viewing
• Comcast To Show Some Movies Same Day As Theaters
• Hands tired of typing? Let your feet do the work
• AOL takes heat as groups protest new pay-for-email plan
• Mike Schmidt: Pete Rose lacked remorse about gambling
• World’s first movie shot entirely on a cell phone
• iPod Hi-Fi
• A note on Buck O’Neil
• Big Problem with Google Pages?
• Chaucer hath a blog
• SXSW sells out of wristbands
• More Video iPod Photos Leaked?
• Apple schedules media event for Feb. 28
• Video iPod: another leaked photo
• As time passes…a photo essay that shows how we age
• Google quietly unveils online Web site creator
• Digg flaw discovered
• O’Reilly calls for U.S. to “get out of Iraq”
• What does a Chinese Keyboard look like?
• Computer History Museum photos
• Is this the new video iPod?
• Benefit for homeless canceled…due to weather
• “Lawer” threatens Boing-Boing
• Best Buy gripes
• Zelda marks 20th anniversary
• February Jams
• Always assume the camera is on
• Video of Skype payphone
• Reefer Madness
• Rube Goldberg machine created in Half Life 2
• Pitchers and catchers report
• Google Earth Easter Egg
• Blizzard 2006 photos
• Will Harry Caray rise again for the 2006 season?
• Nintendo Entertainment System Commercials
• Losing an iPod on the subway
• Brokeback Top Gun
• Japanese showcase true 3D display technology
• First look at Gmail Talk Beta
• Beta-testing Internet Explorer 7
• Some of the problems with using Gmail
• ‘Idol contestant (gently) fires back
• What moondust smells like
• The 100 best first lines from novels
• Vintage Aviation Hoax Photos
• The complete n00b’s guide to free and reliable Windows software
• Wireless TiVo
• “Lazy Monday”
• January Jams
• How to stop ZoneAlarm from Spying on you
• Yes, there is room for an iPod in church…
• Perry Bible Fellowship
• Seth Green reads Star Jones’ new book….
• Yahoo News puts Bush with cadavers
• Gmail now available to all users
• The original Tetris commercial
• Microsoft App crashes on Billboard Advertisement
• Macworld 1997 Video
• Best Buy laptop running OSX?
• Did Apple ripoff a band’s video to sell MacBooks?
• Ironic: the day Apple goes to Intel, it’s stock closes at 80.86 a share
• Macworld Roundup…
• Macworld 2006 updates
• iPod Shuffle Updates?
• The Full House drinking game
• Phoenix, Witherspoon deliver in ‘Line
• The price of a bottle of wine
• Clerks 2 update
• 43 Folders …
• Pong meets contemporary art
• Google loves Spam (primavera)
• There was some damage to the plane
• CBS to offer March Madness online for free
• Wil Wheaton plug
• Reflections of a carpetbagger on a trip
• Evolution in the bible, says Vatican
• Engadget checks out wooden PCs
• Will Wal-Mart sell $398 notebooks, desktops?
• Apple Computer, 1985
• ‘I use my iPod to store medical images’
• Firefox 1.5 delayed
• Nano scratches leave Apple fending off class-action suit
• Apple signs podcasting deal with Stanford U.
• Happy 100M, Mozilla
• Things you should know about Video iPod
• Apple unveils video iPod
• The Tiger Strikes Again
• New iPods Next Week?
• Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005
• Harvey Danger offers fans plesant surprise
• Nano Scratches – Bad Apple.
• iPod Nano
• Apple Web Designed with Microsoft Frontpage?
• Vast majority don’t know phishing, podcasting and RSS
• Microsoft reportedly has deleted images of Apple’s Cupertino-based headquarters
• 91 percent of Americans don’t know what RSS is
• FCC Chairmain Kevin Martin on loosening broadband rules
• IBM sees blogging as a key way for companies to promote information sharing
• Bartman: Two Years After
• Most Overrated Songs of All Time
• Willie’s picnic
• Willie’s 2005 picnic
• iTunes, now with built-in podcast catching abilities
• My thoughts on the Mac
• Scanner to determine the chemical composition of wine
• Hopeful on free Lubbock wireless
• Free wireless to downtown Lubbock update
• Google Doodle –– Frank Loyd Wright
• Steve Jobs’ 2005 WWDC keynote address
• Roswell
• Microsoft Longhorn
• The state of ethics vs. Jamaican law
• May 30, 2005
• Lauren’s grandmother turns 97 on Wednesday
• Apple partnering with 7-11?
• Lubbock Free Wireless
• Let’s Bring Wireless to Downtown Lubbock
• Chinese Government Control of Media
• Mark Cuban on music downloading
• Are Podcasters Selling Out?
• The role of technology in China’s recent anti-Japanese protests
• Barry Bonds’ 700th Home Run Ball for Sale…Again
• My 20-gigabyte fourth generation iPod
• May 8, 2005
• Tony Pierce reflecting on the rejection of his graduate school application
• May 5, 2005
• Tiger Notes
• iPod blamed for spike in subway crime
• A Note on Podcasts
• Online Music Suppliers Have Room to Grow
• Tiger Set to Pounce
• Now Online via Skype
• McMurtry to Close Shop
• An MP3 Rant
• Neugebauer Scores Null on Children’s Issues
• Pope John Paul II: 1920-2005
• Pope
• Gmail Gets Boost in Storage
• Bush’s Rhetoric Fails Litmus Test
• Political Identity Online
• NY Post: Let Schiavo Die in Peace
• P2P Battle Heats Up
• Perry, Hutchinson Spar Early
• Knight(s) to Leave Texas Tech?
• Bring it On
• Tech Writing Jobs in Lubbock
• Bonds Submits
• Saira Shah to Speak at Texas Tech
• Google One Step Closer to Launching Gmail
• Apple to Boost Stock Ram?
• Apple’s Influence on Free Speech
• How Much Should an iPod Shuffle Cost?
• iPod Shuffle Drives Memory Demand
• Lubbock Pushing to Improve Image, Little Else
• Review: iPod Shuffle
• Free Speech at Texas Tech?
• Podcast News
• Mac and Me
• Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington Campus Abundant with Apple iPods
• Cox Officials Outline Cause of Loud Commercials Amid Complaints
• Cox Comm Responds to Allegations of Volume Hyping
• Check out Whole Wheat Radio
• Challenging Internet Stereotypes of Teen “Technowizards”
• Apple and Wal-Mart to sell Ipod Shuffles
• Apple and Best Buy will partner to sell Mac
• The inception of Apple’s Mac Mini