And now for something completely different... OK, this has absolutely nothing to do with my regular stuff, but I saw "Avenue Q" a few weeks ago, and thought it was great. Tonight, while watching the World Series (Chicago just took a 5-4 lead... that's the White Sox, silly. The Cubs don't get in the World Series), I saw Ann Harada from the show in a commercial for Sprint. Weird. That, and the word "schadenfreude" seems to be turning up everywhere these days. See the show. Trust me.
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  Of course, you still can't afford gas for it... So, here's a fun one for all the kids out there. It seems a group of scientists have created the smallest car ever made. You really can't make this stuff up. It seems that the idea is to eventually build trucks (like nano-moving vans, for instance), to move atoms and molecules around in an atom factory. Truth appears to be getting stranger than fiction every day now, doesn't it?  ¶ 12:27 AM 0 comments

  Quick hit... We used to talk about living in Internet years. Does anyone talk about mobile phone years now? Maybe they do in Japan or somewhere where networks are more robust. Just a thought.  ¶ 10:33 PM 0 comments

  Does this mean I should've gotten a Treo? Damn. I've been using technology long enough to know that every time you make a commitment to one product, something cool happens on another front that makes you reconsider. Clearly, this is another of those cases. I just recently got rid of my ancient (in cell phone years) Motorola V60i and replaced it with a BlackBerry 7100g. I dig the phone, it's really cool. Then this happens. I looked hard at the Treo, like it, and opted not to get it because our corporate mail server doesn't support it. Now, Palm and RIM are making nice-nice, and it looks like you'll be able to get a Treo running BlackBerry's email system. There just isn't any justice in this world.

Anyway, how much do you think that the new Windows Mobile-powered Treo got the folks over at Research in Motion, um, in motion? It looks like the handset is shaping up to be the next desktop and the kids in Redmond want to play in that space, too. Do you think Ma Bell ever saw this one coming?  ¶ 10:19 PM 0 comments

  The Devil gives you the first hit for free... At least that's what they say about heroin. The RIAA, however, makes heroin dealers look like nursery school teachers. An anonymous donor now is providing students with access to music subscriptions for at least a year. Of course, if the kids want to listen to the music anywhere other than their duly authorized accounts, I assume the RIAA supports that, in exchange for Junior's immortal soul. At least, that's how the other pushers do it.  ¶ 11:00 PM 0 comments