the john report

Although I've seen several standing desk arrangements around the office over the last several years, some recent post I saw about the po...

When the screen on my old family laptop died a few years ago, I found the perfect use for it: as a headless server on the family network. Ru...

UPDATE: the charts below are smaller than I'd like, so I've posted full-sized versions in a Picasa Web Album if you'd prefer to...

When I picked up an old 12" PowerBook G4 last fall (just in time for the launch of Leopard!) I wondered how long it would take to beco...

I've been excited about receiving a TED 1001 home energy meters for two weeks now. I downloaded and skimmed through the TED manual to s...

As mentioned in a previous post , I'm a fan of desktop search engines like Google Desktop. With files at home and at work numbering in t...

My first computer (everyone has impossibly fond memories of their first computer, don't they?) was a Radio Shack Colour Computer. With 1...