I’ve got some pretty slick score updates for the Anaheim Angels coming to my cell phone now-a-days. I’ve been subscribed to game updates through Yahoo Alerts for several years. Now I’ve set it up so that when an update is sent, it goes to a program on my web server first, which parses the text [...]

Several weeks ago, I tried to buy a Dell laptop for my daughter who’s heading out to college this fall. I was on the Dell web site. I had a system selected, a Dell Latitude D830, all customized and ready for purchase. But the one thing I wanted that their web site was not allowing [...]

At some point recently, I allowed a Windows update that upgraded my Internet Explorer to version 7. This version sucks worse than any other version. I usually don’t care because I’ve been a Firefox user for years. But my bank’s online tools have a glitch, and they will only work in IE. So I have [...]

On August 1, 2000 I bought my first PDA, a Handspring Visor Deluxe. Actually, ten years earlier, I had purchased a Casio B.O.S.S., but my Visor was the first device I had that synchronized with my computer. So I’ve been keeping my calendar and contacts on some kind of electronic device for 18 years.
I’ve gotten [...]

I’ve been messing around with various methods of creating videos for YouTube for about a year and a half now. I’ve had varying success, but I recently started taking recorded DVDs and putting clips on YouTube. And the process has been clumsy, until now.
Here’s my situation. I bought a video capture card three years ago, [...]

Hey, it’s March 28! You know what that means right? It was back in 1996, after about about six months of messing around with web pages on this cool new thing called the worldwide web, that I decided it was time to register my own domain name.
I remember sitting at the desk in my house [...]

What were you doing last Wednesday night? If you’re like Bo Bai of Sunnyvale, CA, you were driving in Bedford Hills, NY, when your GPS unit told you to turn right. So you turned right, even though it was a railroad track you were turning onto.
Yep, he turned onto railroad tracks. So, what happened then? [...]

Had some fun today putting up the Christmas lights with my daughter Randy. Last year, we came up with a new way of hanging the Christmas lights on our house, a way that makes it quite easy to hang them every year. So this year was a snap.
Rather than explain the details here, I’ll just [...]

There are many conflicting opinions about HTML e-mail, how effective it is, how secure it is, and if it should even be used. HTML e-mail should absolutely never be used, for several reasons:

Not everyone uses it. Every e-mail user can view plain text e-mails. 100%. The same cannot be said for HTML e-mail. No matter [...]

I make my living on the internet. I’ve been doing so since 1995. I believe deeply in the power of the internet; it’s by far the most powerful medium in the history of the world. But it has its dangers. So, how do I respond when people ask, “Scott, how do you protect your kids [...]

Ever wonder what your internet connection speed really is? Here’s the BEST place you can test it:
http://speedtest.vonage.com/
When you go there, be sure to wait a bit to allow it time to test your speed. It shows you in very simple terms what your download and upload speeds are.
Download Speed vs. Upload Speed
Download speed is much [...]

Okay, that’s kinda harsh. “TVs suck.” I just have a small pet peeve about TVs today. You can’t see what channel you’re watching without pushing some buttons.
It used to be I could look at the channel selector dial and see what channel I’m on. And even when we went digital, there was a little LED [...]