Metro City Wifi is coming to Houston!

In your front yard, at the store or at the mall, it’s a plan to make the Internet available everywhere in the Houston area.

Can Houston fit into an Internet bubble?

Maybe there is some sense in getting a huge SUV to protect your butt in a wreck…

Small cars continue to be the least safe on the road, but all vehicles and SUVs in particular are getting much safer.

SUVs do better in report on fatalities

A live shot from the camera on my phone.

A live shot from the camera on my phone.

I think its hard for many to make the right calls when it comes to their home…

I HAVE SOMETHING un-American to confess: I rent an apartment, despite having enough money to buy a house. I plan to keep renting for as long as I can. I’m not just holding out for better prices. Renting will make me richer.

Renting Makes More Financial Sense Than Homeownership

Interesting read on the different HDTV technologies…

Forking out a few thousand dollars or even just a few hundred is a serious investment, and the last thing you want to do is buy an HDTV with lousy color rendition. Navigating the minefield in consumer electronics is a confusing proposition even for the seasoned gadget geeks, so I created this survival guide to help you make a wise decision. I’ll explain the various types of HDTVs as well as cabling and testing the color depth of your display.

Don’t buy an HDTV without reading this first

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Anyone who has tried to register a domain name as of late will find this Dilbert cartoon (sadly) amusing:

Do you know if you’re ingesting Bisphenol A?

Bisphenol A is ingested by practically everyone in Canada who eats canned foods or drinks from a can or hard plastic water bottles.

‘Inherently toxic’ chemical faces its future

Has it begun?

Real estate group sees 0.7% decline in 2007, first annual drop since it began keeping track.

Home prices set for first drop in 40 years

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I never really understood how this was going to save such a monumental amount of power…

The early onset of Daylight Saving Time in the United States this year may have been for naught.

Early Daylight Saving Time a bust

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Is it just me? or does it seem like Apple is having more and more issues with QC….

Is Apple covering up a mass problem with the MacBook? First a MacBook exploding, now one customer gets 6 MacBooks in a row with faults and told by Apple just to take the refund, they won’t replace them anymore.

Diary of a MacBook Nightmare

This is a fascinating read…

Artificial Lighting and the Blue Light Hazard
(The Facts About Lighting and Vision)

When people find out that I just moved to Houston, they always ask “Why?”… or “Why not San Francisco?”

Well, here are some good reasons:

Top Cities for Jobs – Houston is #3 beating SF.

Top 10 Best / Worst Cities For Software Developer Pay – Houston is #1 (adjusted salary)

My buddy Nathan has a good write-up about it as well.

Sounds like a pretty good place to start a company (or two… or three) to me… 🙂

Huh? Am I starting a new company? shhhhh 😉

The bad side of CFL’s…

Mercury is poisonous, but it’s also a necessary part of most compact fluorescent bulbs, the kind that environmentalists and some governments are pushing as a way to cut energy use.

Mercury in energy-saving bulbs worries scientists

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Buddy of mine showed me this today – its very, very cool. It can create a custom internet radio station of music you’ll (probably) like…

Pandora is a music discovery service designed to help you enjoy music you already know, and to help you discover new music you’ll love.

It’s powered by the most comprehensive analysis of music ever undertaken, the Music Genome Project: a crazy project started back in early 2000 to capture the complex musical DNA of songs using a large team of highly-trained musicians.

Just tell us one of your favorite songs or artists and we’ll launch a streaming station to explore that part of the musical universe.

Pandora

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Is it just me? Or does the guy narrating this video sound like Ze Frank?

The Hole – video powered by Metacafe

A live shot from the camera on my phone.

Finally – someone said it!

Too many people rely on their home as their primary savings strategy. That’s a mistake.

Why your home isn’t the investment you think it is

Today, David introduced me to Daver Werner, aka OkaySamurai. Nice guy.:)

Watch his rendition of Paula Abdul’s “Straight Up”…

Turns out you can still view videos that have been removed from Youtube:

How To Download Deleted YouTube Videos