Whiteboards are easily one of the most useful utilities that any techie can have. They make it easy to write down flowcharts, create product mockups, and organize your ideas. I’ve been using one for about 5 years now, and it has served me well. (Ignore the cat5e cables) Unfortunately, it has become old and worn...

This post is brought to you by one pissed off internet user. I just can’t imagine I’m the only person who hates those one-photo-per-page photo lists (you know, the “top 10 beaches” “top 100 computer pictures”, etc). In fact, I know I’m not. Go on Digg.com and view the comments for such an article and...

What place gets shocks from an earthquake, a hurricane, a tornado, and several days straight of heavy rain, all in a period of 2 weeks? If you guessed upstate NY you’d be correct. My heart goes out to all of my upstate neighbors who got hit by Irene and are now facing some pretty horrible...

Updated – Arrington was fired In case you haven’t heard, there is a battle going on over TechCrunch between Michael Arrington and Arianna Huffington. There’s stories about it all over the place. Normally I don’t like blogging about news stories, but this is a pretty major one that has even hit big media outlets. Because...

I finally got around to upgrading to Firefox 5 and wow, what an improvement. So far it seems like most of the memory leaks are gone (it is holding steady around 300-400 megs of ram vs 700 for Firefox 4), and it is definitely a bit snappier – when I load a cached page it...