• Coming soon!

    Yes, the Friends in Tech Christmas special, Lucky the Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Geeks, is coming! It’s now in production and is due to be released Dec. 18th. Stay tuned to the Friends in Tech site that day to get your geek-holiday fix. In the meantime, you can listen to the promo on…

  • Excuse the mess

    Pardon me while I make some small changes to the blog. This is what happens when you spend two days basically bed-ridden with the flu. Once you have even a little bit of energy you just have to do something! I thought it’d be cool to add Digg This and Add to delicious.com links to…

  • Web 2.0 Libraries

    Dave Slusher talked about seeing his local library go all Web 2.0 on him with a Flickr photoset and even a video on YouTube today, which struck me as interesting because I’ve been doing some of those on-line interactivity things with the Friends of the Library site too to sort of increase the visibility of…

  • Now that’s journalism

    I missed this over the weekend, but Dwight Silverman does a good job of breaking down the $100 PC available during the Thanksgiving Shopping spree. Surprise, surprise, the $100 for a PC really isn’t quite the deal it appears to be. It would be nice if retailers could go the route Dwight suggests, and just…

  • A simple upgrade

    Once again, I offered to do some simple work for a friend, upgrading them from an almost full 10GB laptop hard drive. Since I had a copy of Norton Ghost 9 that had been given to me as a gift awhile back, I figured this should be pretty simple. And, once again, it wasn’t that…

  • Out of touch

    I know, I’ve been quiet on the blog the last few days. I’ve been busy, mostly doing things, and spending time with, my wife. Since she was going to be gone for the long weekend, I really wanted to put the laptop aside for a few days and spend my spare time with her. It’s…