Michael Castellon

Anyone who has talked to me about technology stuff the past 5 months or so knows that I’m a tremendous fan of Apple computers and the iPod. It hasn’t always been this way. When I was working at the newspaper, we used old iMac desktops that got the job done, but the experience never really…

Wired has an article today about a pretty impressive piece of technology: Eugene Mulvihill has constructed a $50,000 Wine Scanner to determine the chemical composition of wine without opening the bottle. “When you spend $1,000 you want the wine to be perfect,” said Mulvihill. “You are spending more on the wine than the food, and…

Lubbock City Councilman Gary Boren had some inspiring words in an e-mail sent to me today in response to my proposal for the wireless downtown project. Mr. Boren seems to agree that a free wireless network downtown would indeed be an asset to the community. The initiative has now been passed on to the Revitalization committee…

Bringing free wireless to downtown Lubbock is becoming more and more of an exciting project. Today, I set up a meeting with Dr. Alfonso Sanchez of the TTU Community and Workforce Academy. I had the pleasure to work with Dr. Sanchez last summer on some of the work he is doing with Dr. Rich Rice…

Video of Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote address is now available at the Apple Quicktime site. Pretty interesting. I can’t wait to see how the Intel/Apple partnership develops. I’m not sure if Jobs is downplaying the difficulty involved in re-coding software so that it works on both PowerPC and Intel platforms. But Jobs, alongside…

Blogger Michael Kaplan has been beta testing Microsoft’s forthcoming version of Windows, code named Longhorn, and reports that the software will be using a “red screen of death,” as opposed to the typical blue screen current Windows users see when their PCs crash. The thought of a red error screen not only makes me tremble,…