The Protagonist

Most everyone here in the office is taking their last stab at some vacation time today. One last fling, one last hurrah before September comes around. We’d like to keep coming into the office in flip flops forever but alas, it will be fall soon, for about 2 weeks, then winter for about 6 months. [...]

VOIP sounds like some kind of bug or maybe a new soft drink soda. Its actually an acronym for:
Voice
Over
Internet
Protocol.
This allows your computer to take your audio of your voice, digitize it, packet it, and send it to someone who is on another computer via the internet (or to a land phone line) in real time. [...]

I noticed that there are tools here on WordPress that alow me to see how many people are reading my blog and which posts are popular. Its suprising to me. I have some readers who most likley know me offline and syndicate this blog to their reader, but I also have a lot of readers [...]

I know we’ve already heard rumbligs about this, but the analog Tv channels that we all have available right now are scheduled to go off in 2009 in favor of a Digital Broadcast network. Those signals aren’t receivable via your current TV, unless its a HDTV. USA Today says that 15% of us (me included) still [...]

Its sad that first Marshall Field’s Company (the main store is on State street in Chicago) was bought from target and converted into Macy’s and now they announce that the Carson’s state street store will close altogether. How sad that the historically significant (department) stores can’t make enough money to stay afloat. Personally I’ve thought that Carson’s [...]

I am a fan of Ze Frank’s show every day and yesterday he posted saying people should send him “intros” for the show. So, being the geek that I am I recorded one. But apparetly I’m not geeky enough. I only have a cannon elph so video from a picture camera isn’t great, I don’t [...]