I keep a complete toiletries case at work. If I'm traveling over the weekend, I can just grab it and I'm almost ready. I have an Iphone so I always have an AC charger cable with me and a set of Apple earbuds. I carry an Ogio backpack everyday. It's sturdy and it has a nice assortment of pockets. I just repack it…

Here's how I remember what to do when I'm changing aperture size or shutter speed: When I'm taking sports shots, I'm using a very fast shutter speed. To make up for the smaller time the aperture is open, I have to use a larger aperture. Using a larger aperture results in a reduction in the depth of field. The…

The best part of this story is that somewhere, someone recognizes this thing and when they saw the pictures, they said, "Oh, fuck..."

I've gotten excellent results with a Netgear Powerline box to extend my network to my basement. Also, when my Linksys AP's wireless channel was set to "auto" it would typically run on a very low channel, 1 or 2. I locked it onto 6 and got better service on my phone and my Kindle. You should check for…

I think Stephen Hawking would be very careful in a whorehouse.

I see a lot better in the dark if I look out of the corner of my eye.

Oddly, it usually takes me three tries to get a USB cable to connect.

I was in Rome last week. Most of the time, I didn't have good enough phone service to use Google Maps. I ended up using a paper map my technophobe wife had brought along. I was really surprised, I thought Europe was supposed to have great cell coverage.

It's ok, I've posted the home addresses of everyone involved with Gawker on a Taliban website.

I don't know how it works, if the MediaMonkey people had a deal with Amazon or what but I got the message that only 100 users at a time were allowed to use Amazon. My only choices for autotagging sites were other Amazon sites and the GUI wouldn't let me change the server. In the MediaMonkey forum, I found some…

I bought the Pro version of MediaMonkey at Christmas time and it couldn't auto-tag even basic cds. I couldn't even change the server it was using for auto tagging. All it would let me use was the Amazon US server and apparently Amazon only lets 100 users in at a time. Also, it couldn't update iPhones. Have these…

Not as high tech, but a far more complete music site is allmusic. I've been using it for years to find pretty much the same type of information for many more bands.

Does that make her pee smell funny?

If you've ever had to keep a daily lab notebook, you would have quickly figured out that pencils are useless. They smear. After a couple of months, the older entries are illegible. It may be why we beat them to the moon.

He was a well known mung slinger at the turn of the century in Bethel, VT. At the time, Bethel was considered to be the mung slinging capital of the world. Bethel is still known as Mung City. Art was known for the smoothness of his slinging.

A really easy way to try out new a new OS is with Vmware's Player. It creates a virtual machine from most OSes. It's free and creating a VM is largely automated. Creating VMs is so easy, it's also a great way to try out any new software.

Wireless bridges just don't have the bandwidth or the reach you can get with a powerline transmitter. I've got a Western Digital Livewire and I've never heard any interference from it even from a tube amp I've got that isn't protected by a filter/surge protector.

Compared to what? The speakers built into your TV? Harmon Kardon has a long history of delivering great sounding gear at budget prices. Check this out: