In an effort to bring local channels to another 41 local areas in the US, DirecTV has launched another satellite, this time using the Sea Launch sea-borne commercial launch facility. Sea Launch uses a sea-borne launch facility usually position near the equator in the Pacific Ocean to launch commercial payloads …

As the folks at Ars Technica explain, it's only one week, but for the week ending April 24,2004, AMD beat Intel in desktop CPU sales. Laptops are still the purview of Intel (81% or so), but losing the 60% desktop race still hurts.

I don't want to write a thousand words about this one, so here's the picture from the Baltimore Sun. Editor Unfortunately, the picture related to this story is no longer available at any link I could find.

I found this tipping information interesting today.

I went poking around this weekend looking for fuel cells for use as backup power (I need somewhere between 7KW and 20KW of backup for use when there is no power, but I'd really like to keep the noise and footprint down). Once again, I have sought out hydrogen-based fuel …

BBC News is carrying an article this morning with the results from a report by the Simon Wiesenthal Center about hate-based internet sites. The report, not surprisingly, indicates that the internet is being used as a communication and fund raising avenue for these groups.

The New York Times has an article discussing the work of John Lowry, a pioneer in the film and video technology area who is working to make DVDs now (and in the future) the best that they can be. Lowry's company, Lowry Digital, which was profiled by Apple in this …

Wired has an interesting article about the Republican National Committee's recent web-based efforts to advertise against Kerry. Part of these include the use of video games as the ad delivery medium. This week's ad "Tax Invader" which features little green bullets firing from Bush's head at the taxes that …

Apple announced Wednesday that they have had another profitable quarter, with revenues jumping 30% and profits increasing 200%, thanks to a 909% increase in iPod sales. During the quarter, the company shipped 749,000 Macintoshes and 807,000 iPods for revenues of $1.9B. And, to top it off, they're …

Tim Berners-Lee, the acknowledged inventor of the world wide web, has been given the Millennium Technology Prize by the Finnish Technology Award Foundation. The prize, worth 1 million Euros, is handed out every other year for innovations stemming from research in the following areas: Health Care and Life Sciences Communications …

In what Extreme Tech called a "Grand Slam" in their preview, nVidia has announced May availability for their new NV40-based 16-pipeline graphics chip. It is a best, beating previous performance winners by about a factor of two!

After this week's settlement with Microsoft, Sun has come under attack by some in the computing community about their willingness to "sleep with the enemy." Sun's venerable "java guy" has posted a blog entry wherein he gives his take on why the Java world should not fear the $1.6B …

One small step for Apple. An article from ComputerWorld Australia that details plans by the DMV (called the RTA, Road and Traffic Authority) in New South Wales, Australia. Cause appears to be an intentional move to open source by the government there. From the article, "Apple OSX 10.3 was …

Often, these days, I find myself looking at web sites about politics, finance, and government and saying, "wow! that's cool... but what is its effect?" Fundrace.org is one such site. It's worth a look, because with it you can see what your neighborhood's politics look like. However, don't be …

In summary, like former first lady Nancy Reagan used to say, "Just say no!". I was wondering why this movie had gotten no advertising, and I believe the answer is now clear: they didn't want to spend a dollar more than they had already spent to get the film in …

It's been about 14 months since I posted this article on the 'Pages about the PDF plugin from ShubertIT. In that time, the product has continued to get better and now it is down-right indispensable. The plugin works great in Safari and is free of charge for non-commercial use.

Some of you out there who heard earlier this week of a virus aimed at MacOS X, might be wondering why I didn't write about it earlier, unlike Wired did in their article. However, this new article, OS X Trojan Horse Is a Nag, is why. Although somebody has released …

NASA has extended the mission of the Mars Rovers to an additional 5 months. The press release, dated April 8, details the successes of the current program and offers the possibility that even though the mission is being extended to September (including $15 Mil in funding for the human staff …

I happened across an informative article from Edmonds.com about selling cars. They sent a reporter undercover at two car dealerships, one no-hassle, no- haggle dealership and one "normal" dealership. The results are interesting, especially if you are in the market for a car.

Kurt and Donna got married in Lake Tahoe this week. They've gotten access for a short time and were able to put up a few pictures on their Wedding Album. Check it out.