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

Hey look! I made it on the TED2007 blog!

(upper right corner)

http://ted2007.vox.com/

A live shot from the camera on my phone.

A live shot from the camera on my phone.

This is the coolest trick I’ve seen in peeling a boiled egg!

A live shot from the camera on my phone.

This will become useful if you upgrade to Vista…

Don’t waste your time searching dozens of vendor websites every month for the driver updates you need.
Just bookmark this page and come back whenever you need a new driver.

VistaDrivers

Hey Apple, watch your back… 🙂

After some modifications, here’s a video of my Ubuntu 6.10 desktop with Beryl XGL and Kiba-Dock.

A live shot from the camera on my phone.

Fewer babies…

“There are two reasons fertility rates can decline,” said J. David Hacker, a SUNY Binghamton historian. “One explanation is that marriage declines. Not as many women get married, and if they do marry, they do so at a later age, so that there is less time to have children. The second explanation is that people consciously try to limit having children, which was revolutionary in the 19th century.”

Why Women Have Fewer Babies

Smarter babies…

Women who eat seafood while pregnant may be boosting their children’s IQ in the process, according to new research published Friday in The Lancet. The results of the study were surprising, say the authors, and contradict American and British recommendations that pregnant women should limit seafood and fish consumption to avoid potentially high levels of mercury.

Fish during pregnancy may boost kids’ IQ

A live shot from the camera on my phone.

For those of you who know me really well, you’ll know why I love this! 😀

I’ve had a few friends tell me that Gmail was inaccessible from where they were… it could be a network problem, or filtering, or a policy issue.

Here are some ways to get around the problem…

How to access Gmail when it is blocked at work or school

A buddy sent me this vdeo…and its really well done… it walks you down the path of how Web 2.0 came to be…

So you love Google Calendar, huh?

And you also love Outlook/Exchange, too?

And you also have your smartphone synced with your Outlook/Exchange all the time?

But you’d like to integreate Google Calendar with all of that as well?

Well – here ya go! (P.S. – its completely FREE)

Incorporate Google Calendar Into Outlook

A live shot from the camera on my phone.

Ouch!

In Texas, 14,728 new foreclosure filings were reported over the course of January — the highest number of new foreclosures posted by any state in the United States, according to RealtyTrac.

Texas takes a top spot in January foreclosure report

All about the iWorld!

The last time I was at the gym with my usual group of friends, someone spoke of a tiny “apartment” that was for sale in London that was the size of a closet…

Look what £170,000 can buy you
A flat roughly the size of a snooker table has gone on sale for £170,000 in London’s upmarket Chelsea.

‘Table-sized flat’ for £170,000

During the conversation it was unclear how anyone could possibly live in something so small… but it seems that its actually possible!

Simple Simon used SketchUp to draw up plans for a renovation of the place that would render it habitable. His ideas are pretty clever

Plan for a an 11′ x 7′ flat

I love datacenter’s… 😀

CNET’s Veronica Belmont toured the cutting-edge data center at Lucasfilm in San Francisco. From Web sites to e-mail to graphic rendering, all the bytes pass through here at this high-tech movie production company.

When a dozen petabytes is not enough