Archive for November, 2007



Hostages taken at Clinton NH headquarters

This does not sound good. A man claiming to have a bomb walked into Hillary Rodham Clinton’s storefront campaign office…

(I have asked the candidates involved in next Saturday’s runoff to send me a brief statement saying why people should…

(I have asked the candidates involved in next Saturday’s runoff to send me a brief statement saying why people should…


When I went to the Sony Store in Tokyo, Japan, I didn’t know what to expect. Here is the Sony Rolly demo video I shot. The Rolly is an mp3 player that dances to music. It appears to only be available in Japan at this point. I’m not sure if it would take off in America or not. Would you buy one?

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Monday is the official opening of Filing Season for 2008. Rick Noriega will be heading to Austin that morning to…

Cornyn defends his anti-CHIP votes

Nice try. U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, predicting voters will see through Democrats’ bid to turn health coverage for working-poor children…

My inner math geek was amused by this story about the annual onslaught of Christmas music from one of the…

How to do a college football playoff

I’ve got to agree with King Kaufman here. This is such a sensible plan for a college football playoff that…

Will the Pig Stand ride again?

I’ve said before that one of my great regrets as a Houstonian is that in all the times I drove…

For the geeks in the audience, I present a sushi USB thumb drive. They don’t call these 1 gig drives SushiDisk for nothing. I know I wanted to take chopsticks and insert this flash drive into the nearest USB connection I could find!


I should have taken a picture of the USB flash drive that makes it look like a dog is humping your computer. That was interesting.