Technology

iPad Review I bought one ten days ago. It's really cool, but I'm not convinced it's worth the price. It doesn't do one key thing that I was told it would do (see below), but it does a lot of neat stuff.

Random Tuesday [http://www.cnbc.com/id/38307617] [http://www.cnbc.com/id/38307617] "President Barack Obama took aim at Republican lawmakers Monday, accusing them of holding the public hostage to Washington politics by blocking extended unemployment benefits for millions of out of work Americans." I haven'

I've been vacationing in Alpena, Michigan. I return today. Regular posting will hopefully resume tomorrow morning. Ever since getting my iPhone, I've been looking for Catholic devotional applications. I haven't had much luck, so I created my own. If you own an iPhone, it&

"Facebook has more followers than Buddha." Evan Hessel, Forbes, 9/7/09, p 80. Great line. It's accurate (fb has 250m members, Buddhism something fewer). It's clever, it's tightly-written, and it either required the writer to research the number of Buddhists or

The Disappearing Art: Doing Nothing While sitting on a bench outside a shop in Potemkin Bavaria [http://www.frankenmuth.org/] last weekend, I reached for my iPhone. I had 10-15 minutes to kill while my wife and children shopped, so I thought I'd do some Internet surfing, maybe

The Cell Phone Imbroglio An interesting thing happened at my local high school on Friday. The senior class organized a school-wide prank: the students programmed their cell phone alarms to go off at 10:30. Because cell phones are supposed to be kept in lockers during class, this would result

The evil of Twitter [http://www.ncregister.com/daily/twitter_can_make_you_immoral_claim_scientists/] : [http://www.ncregister.com/daily/twitter_can_make_you_immoral_claim_scientists/] > “Twitter can make you immoral, claim scientists.” So reported the U.K.'s Daily Mail on April 14. Hardcore Register