My love/hate relationship with hp

Ok.  So I have a few pieces of hp technology in my house. A couple vista computers, keyboards, an all in one printer and a monitor.  And generally I gotta say that they are all mostly great. But here are a couple beefs: The all in one printer driver software and utilities that get installed for my All in One Photosmart 4280 (the only really good thing I can say about this printer is that it was cheap) are absolute garbage: First it had numerous conflicts with my tablet drivers – to which I was able to find many other users complaining about on the web to no avail.  Everyone was...
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Cool looking game: Feist

Feist: Seems to be in the same vein as Rez, Okami, loco roco and other games I like a LOT.
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Great criticism of the big 3 US automakers

Source: http://buffalobeast.com/  (some intense social commentary on that site by the way).
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Obama gets Mad mag treatment : The Swamp

I gotta think I’d feel at least as stressed as this caricature if I was in his shoes.  Wow, what pressure. Obama gets Mad mag treatment : The Swamp
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Cool non-violent game.

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The increasing challenge of Originality

It wasn’t so long ago that you could fake originality.  You could steal someone else’s technique, or pawn off someone else’s thought as your own.  You could steal someone else’s ideas, their essays etc.  And you could do this virtually unchallenged by grabbing an older book or magazine and stealing a lot of content. Now, plagiarism can be detected via Google in a couple quick searches.  Try blogging about something that isn’t your original thought and wait for the flames to roll into your comments.   Albert Einstein said “The secret to creativity is knowing...
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Getting a free book (I hope)

A new one, being promoted in an interesting way to drum up business – through blog posts.  If you talk about it – you get a chance to get a free copy (I think he is giving away 200 of them – so we’ll see if I am in time. I will let you know. Andy, can I get a copy of your book?
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