I own the Valentine One radar detector, and this morning saw it pay for itself fully. Right as I pulled onto the freeway it went nuts, as a traffic cop on a motorcycle approached with radar in full force.
He pulled in right behind me and waited a few minutes until someone inched up over 50mph [...]

One look at the new iPhone (that will run only on Cingular) and I’m suddenly sickened by my recent move from Cingular to T-Mobile. I made the move so I could use a Sidekick, which in my opinion was the best mobile device out there, prior to the new iPhone.
So sickened, that I’m scheming all [...]

I no longer have reason to be jealous of Carrie sharing her birthday with Elvis. I now share my birthday with the day Saddam Hussein was executed, as does Tiger Woods, who is my identical age down to the nano second. And yes, while I’m writing this on the 29th, it’s the 30th in Iraq.

Because we got rid of our television, we no longer need DirecTV or TiVo service, and so I set about to cancelling them today. In both cases, both companies tried to retain me, and the dialog went something like this:
>Retention Specialist: We’re sorry to hear that sir, is there a reason you’d like to cancel?
Me: [...]

For almost a few months now Carrie and I have been considering getting rid of our television so that we may, in our own estimations, better our home and quality of life. In a time when people, myself included, are tech obsessed and frothing over 42 inch plasma screens, we’re stepping back and turning the [...]

This is simply fantastic. We’ll be showing Stikkit to the public for the very first time at the Web 2.0 conference in a few weeks. Everyone involved is excited about the news: for the past several months a whole host of good people have been working on it, testing it, using it and talking about [...]

I’m selling my old school Samsung Uproar mobile phone on the cheap. It was the first phone to play MP3s (and I think it held that distinction for nearly five years, come to think of it). It still works well, I’m just cleaning house. Spread the word.

Sometimes, a few days before a presentation where you show fine audience participants how to build a multiplayer web based ajax game, you find a tiny little bug in your code. And then you begin to think the code doesn’t look that fashionable, so you rewrite it all, going from a game that had squares [...]

I’ve been performing ninja moves on my personal finances lately, chopping costs down. The first big change might come as a shock.
I traded my Subaru Impreza WRX in for a Honda Civic Hybrid. Yeah, crazy eh? I used to talk about my WRX like it was a third child or something, but it was chugging [...]