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 [...]

I just subscribed to CNN Pipeline. This is one of the greatest new uses of internet technology I’ve seen in a long time. I’m a cable and internet news junkie. I usually have 4-6 Firefox windows open at a time, one of which has 16 tabs, each one being a news site (eWeek.com, Google News, [...]

I fired up my web cam for the first time back in 1998. It is the first web cam ever to broadcast from De Pere, Wisconsin.
Two years ago, I bought a new computer and last summer I moved my office to the basement of my house. With these and a few other changes in my [...]

Well, I finally upgraded the memory in my two main computers here today. I bought a Dell Dimension 4600 and a Dell Dimension 2400 back in the summer of 2004. The computers are great but were due for an upgrade. In my computer (the 4600), I went from 512MB to 1GB of memory. Then I [...]

Well, I’m catching up to my kids. I finally bought a digital camera last night. I’ve been wanting one for years. I always wish I had one when I’m out performing with GQ4, and it would be handy to have one for general photo taking around the house, holidays, special events, etc. It would also [...]

I’m kind of an electronics freak, and I tend to hook stuff up around my house just because I can. This was the case Saturday. My daughter and I put a new garage door switch in my Ford Explorer. So what the hell is that?
Well, I bought a momentary push button switch from Radio Shack [...]