Just a follow-up to this post . Cisco had in fact been in negotiations with Apple for a long time over the iPhone name and was prepared to make them a deal so Apple could use it. Cisco was extremely surprised by Apple's unveiling of the phone when they hadn't closed the deal though. As I said earlier I think this will cost Apple a bunch of cash and will likely delay the launch of their phone unless they rename it or settle quickly.      I really ...

     I already have an iPhone. I have had it for two weeks already. Yupper, sitting right on my desk at home. "How can that be?" you might ask, since Steve Jobs only announced the iPhone today at Macworld 07 ?     I will tell you how. Apple doesn't, didn't, and likely won't ever make a product called iPhone. Cisco and it's subsidiary Linksys did, do, and likely will make the only iPhone (it's a VOIP phone). They have owned the copyright on iPhone sinc...

     Just bought this hunk of crap (Weed Eater Model RTE 115 "Twist and Edge") from Home Depot today. Got it home put it together (yes correctly) and had a sgood start on the back yard for about 5 minutes when the black plastic clip on shield just fell right off! On close inspection you can see where the motor simply got so hot that it melted the clips right off the friggin thing!   That black sludge is melted plastic. Taking it back later and getting a n...

     Ol' Bill opined recently  that the iPod will likely lose a large chunk of it's market share to cell phones in the near future and I have to agree with him. I love mp3 players but I won't carry one around with me just to hear music. That's just the way I am. I won't pay several hundred bucks for a largely one-trick pony.      My wife has a Blackberry (she needed a new phone) and while I have never actually laid hands on hers (I bought it for...

The People’s Heavy Machinery Factory, No. 37 Minsk 1938 17:00Z           Yuri needed vodka in the worst way.   Just 10 minutes ago he had been day-dreaming about a long pull of the rough proletarian Popov vodka that stood on a bare wooden shelf, above the rickety cot in his tiny flat. Ahhh… how he yearned for oblivion’s sweet embrace.   Delicious numbness was sure to follow the fire in his throat and the spreading war...

     Buried under the shifting sands deep in Iraq lay a relic of a forgotten war... A relic harkening from The Great War... Waiting for an explorer to plumb the Stygian depths of it's slumpering sepulcher... Waiting for... Indiana Colangelo and the Raiders of the Lost Milvan!      14 foot S&M bullwhip coiled at his side Colangelo and his troop of gullible naive guides defeated the ancient guardian of the reliquary (a rusty 2500 series pa...

     Some time ago (might have been years to be honest) I stumbled across this experiment conducted by George Goble of Purdue University. This is the sort of thing that I would love to try but my sense of self-preservation along with a heavy dose of laziness keeps  me from doing. Maybe my aluminum smelting buddy SPC NBS will try it? Now thats cooking!