Archives / 2006 / October

  • "Heroes" Rocks

    Sunday, October 01, 2006
    Just watched the pilot episode of "Heroes" and I'm giving it two thumbs up. Not only am I interested and caught up in the story already but my wife loves it as well, which in house doesn't always happen. Actually, this is probably a bad thing because the television shows we both really love together tend to have something go horribly wrong with them. First there was the excellent "Firefly", which for those that have seen it know how entertaining it was and of course that it got yanked after only a season, and not even really a full season
  • The Fn of the Ctrl Key

    Sunday, October 01, 2006
    I'm in the market for a notebook and so I've been looking around at different models to see what's out there and of all the things to get hung up on I'm stuck on keyboards. Forget specs, forget memory or speed or hard drives or touchpads or any of that, it's the keyboards that have me stuck. First, I'm looking for either a 15.4" or 17" notebook and very few computer makers seem to realize that you can also make the keyboard bigger, not just the monitor itself. It's for this reason that Dell dropped off my list first, and