Author: cysix

Fun afternoon watching the co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (John Perry Barlow) go at it with NSA Dir. of Research (Michael Wertheimer).

Signed up for Skype so I can make phone calls from my iPad when phone battery is dead.

Just spent 55 minutes on the phone with United resolving an issue with their website that messed up my reservation. To their credit, they DID fix it free of charge, but only after attempting to persuade me to pay hundreds of dollars in change fees 15 times during the call. The old days of true […]

1/2 of the circuits in my electric panel died… that’s 1 phase into the house out for you electrically inclined folk. Nothing I could do… power company call and wait. It turns out that the problem was a massive short in the underground power cable. The 1.5″ thick cable was nothing but a bunch of […]

Just finished converting to Comcast HD Premier XF Triple Play. Internet speeds blazing. No more massive Verizon bill for home service we rarely use!

Got rid of a 10+ year old junk receiver and entered the modern world of AV/HDMI. A full afternoon later stringing 10,000 cables and programming the Logitech universal remote, it’s a slick setup. Even the wife approves of the purchase! She especially loves the graphical on-screen iPod feature.

Just finished a dark, yet very interesting post-apocalyptic novel where oil is long gone and widespread mutating gene engineered viruses are an every day battle. In today’s day and age of “go green” and H1N1, it’s been a thought provoking read.

Skynet in 5 years? If 2012 doesn’t get us, these will. Robot practices Tai Chi and Swordplay

I just finished 11.5 HOURS worth of required computer based training. OK, so it only took me 6 hours…. still nuts on a perfect clear weekend when there’s a million other things I could have done outside.

Geek update: Apple is opening a brand new store directly across from our Reston office in the town center. Guess I’m just ahead of the curve w/my new MacBook Pro.