March 22 note added:
I’ve been in touch with the owner of Motiono.com and we’ve resolved our differences amicably. The DMCA takedown notice has been removed.

After weeks of pain, agony, and fruitless searches, I finally managed to buy a Wii.
Three weeks ago, actually - I didn’t want to post about it until I had some time to evaluate it - and it’s been great. Although I’ve bought another game (Excite Truck) I’m the only one playing it much so […]

I just happened to stumble across this Steve Jurvetson photo of an eagle eating a rabbit or some small rodent hawk eating a vole.
Ouch! That is just nasty - predator and prey … both almost seeming to stare into the camera as one head disappears into the other. (Of course, this is probably taken with […]

Just so you know, I’m getting paid $50 to write this review of iBegin. I belong to the ReviewMe service, and get an invitation to review a product or site every couple of weeks. I accept about half of them.
Here’s why I decided to do this review of iBegin:

I went to the iBegin site
I clicked […]

I am posting this to keep from throwing my laptop across the room.
A project management tool we use called Infowit is set up to force users to choose a new password every couple of months. OK, I can somewhat understand that - there’s a desire for security.
(Never mind the fact that when people have […]

This is killing me …

Tags: slow, connection, internet, upload, john koetsier

If you scroll down you’ll notice I recently added a blogroll-ish type of feature to bizhack: Autoroll. I don’t add a lot of flare to my blog because I like to keep it simple and clean and fast-loading, but I kinda wanted to this time. You would too if you got a nice email like […]

I just saw the story on super-close Google map zooms and checked it out.
All you have to do is:

Select a location and switch to satellite view
Zoom in as far as you can, and click “link to this page” at the top right
Now replace the “z” parameter in the URL with a higher value, e.g. 20, […]

Isn’t tech support grand?

People persist in thinking I am Judge Glenda Hatchett, including Delores Clark Washington, who has left her phone number and email address for me to contact her so that I can deliver a speech.
Sigh.
Perhaps I should just give up, show up, and collect the check. On the other hand, I thought I had dealt with […]