Technology

Ride the Wave I came into an easy $80 a few weeks ago, so I splurged on something that has long intrigued me: a shortwave radio. I bought a Grundig G4000A. The model was recommended by a "survivalist" blogger as a solid less-expensive radio, and the Amazon

Received in an Email My computer guy saw yesterday's post and emailed further suggestions to me. I pass them along as a public service: "Don't click OK or CANCEL on pop-ups that are telling you that you are infected or that your hard drive

Cyber Hell Man, whatta rotten week of technology. My computer at the office got hacked. The following is a memorandum (redacted as appropriate) that I circulated to all attorneys and staff. You might want to read it carefully: > My work computer has been compromised. The virus is particularly insidious.

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

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,

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