Don’s Hand-Me-Down Tech: CardScan Executive More of Don's hand-me-down technology: A Corex CardScan Executive 700C scanner with software and license keys. Runs on USB; Windows software only (v7; upgradable from Corex if you want to buy the new version). To win, be willing to send $10 via PayPal for shipping (US; I'll need more internationally),

Synchronized Presidential Debating Notwithstanding what your political beliefs, its fun to hear the slogans over...and over...and over... Â Check out this alignment of all three presidential debates and the debaters. Â No wonder we all thought they sounded the same! Get the latest news satire and funny videos at 236.com.

Debbie Meyer Green Bags Rock I'm a burgeoning cook myself, trying to whip up whatever dishes I can out of whatever ingredients happen be floating around the house. Â In fact, not too long ago my wife and I elected to get our own Community Supported Agriculture box delivered to us every other week. Â

Our New Look I received a couple of requests to discuss our new look in some detail. First, as you may know, we're running WordPress to host the majority of the site. Our new theme is called Arthemia, although it's been tweaked pretty significantly from the original. For plugins, we use: Askimet, which

Phish Announces Spring Tour Three nights at Hampton with more to follow.  Is there really anything else that needs to be said?

Rant: Gas prices got you down? Let’s assign some blame. In tough times, it's always easy to point to someone who's making a huge profit on everyone else's backs, and right now the gas (oil) companies are easy to point at. Folks will even ask, "what are you doing with all those massive profits to help develop alternative energies?" But

The Top 13 Tips to Make Flying Easier on United Airlines I absolutely love airplane travel.  The idea of getting from one far-removed place to another in hours instead of days still holds a bit of romance with me.  But a lot of people these days still loathe the idea of getting into one of those gawd-awful plane seats for any

Funny. Even Visa Doesn’t Believe My Mac Purchase… Here's a great story: A happy United Mileage Plus Visa cardholder for many years, I've never been flagged by their fraud prevention system for purchases...until today.  It turns out that my Mac Mini purchase was considered a suspect purchase.  About four hours after buying the computer over the Internet, I

Hell Freezes Over: Greg Buys a Mac. It must be the cold medicine today.  Or maybe Jupiter's in retrograde.  Don has finally convinced me to stick my foot in the door of the Apple world. Earlier today I purchased a Mac Mini, the least expensive one.  Not a desktop replacement, this little guy will be replacing my

Have you wasted any time on this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_Rider. Or http://www.linerider.com. I like toys.

Best. Prize. Ever. No Trivia. Let's keep it simple: A Sanyo PLV-70 1080i 2200 lumens home theater projector, complete with ceiling mount. Oh, yeah, baby. Full component and DVI inputs, and remote control included. Featuring power lens shift, digital keystone correction, and digital zoom. It doesn't have HDMI inputs - sorry. Apart from that it's

Comcast Announces Usage Limit to Start on 10/1. About to Lose One Customer… In an announcement yesterday, Comcast announced that they will begin rate-limiting their residential high-speed internet (HSI) customers to 250G/month starting on October 1st.  From the announcement: Comcast said it was setting a monthly data usage threshold of 250 gigabytes per account for all residential high-speed Internet customers, or the equivalent

Mountain Biking’s Better Half There's a saying in the mountain bike culture that "you've got to earn your downhill."  As a cross-country MTB'er myself I find that I enjoy the climb uphill.  It calms my otherwise scattered mind while the exercise gets the blood flowing after a hard day in front of the keyboard.

Kindle. $260. Minor strings. Gizmodo reports that you can get a Kindle for $260 - $100 off retail price - by signing up for Amazon's credit card and using it to buy a Kindle. Hey, help the economy - open up some more debt for yourself.

Win Don’s Hand-Me-Down Technology: Home Theater Equipment This prize is a Universal Electronics Home Theater Master MX-900, complete with RF-to-IR extender and a USB key containing the remote's Windows-based programming software (supply your own USB cable - it's standard connectors). Add your own MRF-400 base station for some amazing capability - imagine being able to turn on