To the relief of all whose holiday list I'm on, I finally wanted something for Christmas... something you could buy... legally: One of those turntables that converts vinyl records to MP3s. With this one stone, I could whack the two birds of album clutter and playlist fatigue. At around  >>

Are you a switcher?I stood there in a confused haze trying to get a grip on my thoughts. "Are you a switcher?" Asked a young girl wearing a black tee and a name-tag, she must have spotted my dazed expression from across the all too brightly lit room. "Umm a switcher?" For a  >>

On December 16, 2007, I lost my Palm TX. I depended on this beloved device for all the usual PDA services, such as phone numbers and appointments. With an external bluetooth GPS antenna, it was a pathfinder. I could keep elaborate, hierarchical to-do lists (for projects I never did, but never  >>

My first camera was a Leica IIC, from 1949. Beautiful machine. German engineering, at its orderly best. Interchangeable screw-in lenses, rangefinder, no batteries - pure Teutonic machinery. Say what you like about Germans, but they know their sausages, beer, boiled wool, and engineering. Digital  >>

The Writer's Guild strike has made watching TV a quagmire for me. My wife is in the WGA, and I am in SAG, so I want to make an ethical choice when it comes to my mindless entertainment. Our choice, it seems, is to either be legal, or to be ethical. Legally, we can watch shows off the  >>

You make backups, right? I mean, maybe you don't do daily full system backups, but you certainly make an extra copy of your data files. Fine, maybe not everything, but the important, work related stuff. Right? Here's a scary Halloween story about backups. I know, a few weeks late, but  >>