Do we really need this?

Oh, great what will they think of next? Now electronic gadgets are invading the bathroom.

Bad guys

Here is a good example of what is wrong with this country. In my childhood days, this would have never happened like this but if the assailants were THAT belligerant, then they would have simply had a knock down drag out fight with the person trying to intervene, but come back and kill him? FOR WHAT? What the friggin' hell did that prove except how stupid and ruthless they were. There are just too many such incidents these days. Recent shootings in San Francisco have happened in the 5th and Mission garage and at Fort Funston. It seems like there are less and less safe places in this crime ridden city.

Strange story

Ok, so John Karr has an accident in which JonBenet Ramsey dies. If so, why does he wait ten years to reveal himself in this? This has got to be one of the strangest stories in recent years. If he was known to the family, why did it take this long to reveal anything, by anyone? Did Mr. Karr suddenly have a fit of guilty conscience? He certainly didn't seem to have a guilty conscience or feel any remorse ten years ago. What is different now? Or, as some people suspect, perhaps the whole story is a lie perpetrated by someone who might have known the family but who was and is mentally unbalanced who is now simply seeking some attention. As as why the heck did he have to run to Thailand? Why not Mexico, or the Netherlands, or some lonely South Pacific Island? I despise people like this who take their problems out of the U.S. and foist them upon the good people of other countries.

Password change???

What is the world is going on here at blogger.com? I have had this account for over a year with the same log-on but all of a sudden my Robo Form program which remembers log-ons and passwords wants to apply my Google account log-on and password to this account. Why is that happening? If I try to "correct" that then I end up with a Blogger log-on and password being applied to my Google account. What are these folks up to anyway? :-(

Bigger, more powerful, less costly, etc.

I think many of us are familiar with how much prices have come down with computers over the years and how much more you get for your money. I am wondering, however, how many have thought about the advances in digital cameras? As I was inventorying some equipment tonight I noted that my first digital camera, an Olympus D-400-Z with a whopping 1.2 megapixels cost me $619.95 in May of 1999 but my Panasonic DMC-FZ7 with 6 megapixels cost me $399.95 in March 2006. My workhorse, the Canon G6 with 7.1 megapixels cost $529.95 in June 2005, still less than the first generation Olympus. The cost of memory cards of whatever type keeps coming down and the storage capabilties keeps increasing. This leaves me wondering how small they can build things while increasing the quality and the storage capabilities. While the unit prices keep coming down, photography still remains an expensive hobby for people like me especially since so much of it involves a lot of travel. What I really need is the transporter from the Enterprise ("Beam me up Scotty.") to save time and money. (Oh, how I hate those 13+ hours to Southeast Asia.)

Don't believe it

What you see is not always what actually took place as we learn from this news story.

Can it be done?

This is an interesting concept, a non-hijackable airplane. It is too bad that it has come to that but they may be onto something there.

As for the DVD format wars, I, for one, will not invest in either format until one of them has died. This is a repeat of the Betamax/VHS format war all over again. Thank god the FCC in the fifties had the sense to choose one system for color TV over several competing systems so we did not have to deal with that issue. This issue, unfortunately, can't be regulated by the FCC so I am wondering how long it will take to sort this all out.

Words to surf by...

TEN COMMANDMENTS OF THE INTERNET

1. Thou shalt not buy merchandise found in pop-up ads or spam.
2. Thou shalt not post thy email address, phone number, address or social security number to the internet, nor shalt thou post anyone else's.
3. Thou shalt not forget to update thy Windows every second Tuesday.
4. Thou shalt not connect to the internet without installing an antivirus, nor shalt thou begin a scan without checking for updates.
5. Thou shalt not connect to the internet without installing a firewall.
6. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's credit card number, nor his bank routing number, nor his social security number.
7. Thou shalt not enter thy credit card number without seeing the tiny padlock icon on thy status bar.
8. Thou shalt not reply to the email from the Nigerian banker.
9. Thou shalt not forward chain letters to thy friends and family.
10. Thou shalt not use "password" as thy password, nor thy birthday, nor thy children's names.

And remember, if you want to make sure that your computer is running fast, stable, and secure, go to PC Pitstop to scan your computer.

Happy Wanderer?

Could global warming have something to do with this unusual sighting in the Hudson River?

Opening Soon

Thursday September 28th is apparently the date for the grand opening of the expanded Westfield San Francisco Shopping Center which includes the new Bloomingdale's store. That should be quite a place. The original shopping centre at 5th & Market has been doing very well since it opened and is very busy most times so that bodes well for the expanded version. My only question is about the inclusion of the cineplex in the project. We already have 16 screens at the Metreon one-half block away. Why add more when there are not more and different movies to display there? It doesn't make any sense to me.