I suggested there was no such thing as luck. My friend Jake said “What about winning the lottery”? Winning the lottery is not something you can influence directly without cheating, but it isn’t luck. There are a number of required steps on your part that you must do to actually win the lottery: Buy a [...]

Thanks to Chris Woodruff for the tip that Guy Kawasaki has started a blog. His blog is titled Let the Good Times Roll with Guy Kawasaki with the subject like (which I love) of Blogger. n. Someone with nothing to say writing for someone with nothing to do. Guy is possibly best known for his [...]

Wrightspeed Electric Supercar Ride (0-60 in 3 seconds) I want one. Subject tags: [Electric+Car] [Speed] [Video] [Car]

I’ve know a number of people to be threatened about their act of taking pictures as being illegal. Turns out taking pictures is a lot more legal then most people realized. Basically, if you are taking a picture of something in public, then it is legal. So you can go to the mall with your [...]

Now I really enjoy food. I think most people do. I also find the history of food really interesting. Thanks to this Food Time Line anyone can explore when foods were introduced and the history behind them. For example, did you know Fried Chicken was introduced in the 1st Century AD? Or that the Marshmallow [...]

I was curious what causes the Gmail usage statistic to change, and how quickly it updates. To save you from needing to look at my last post, here were my usage statistics You are currently using 574 MB (21%) of your 2681 MB. I sent myself a 10 MB email. Sure enough immediately my usage [...]

I previously reported that my Gmail usage statistics as of October 24th: You are currently using 547 MB (21%) of your 2657 MB. I was watching that percentage for a while and I got a rather large attachment which bumped me to 22%. I decided to stick it out a little longer to see if [...]

You Passed 8th Grade Math Congratulations, you got 10/10 correct! Could You Pass 8th Grade Math? Subject tags: [Meme] [Math]

Leave it to PBS to debunk some of the pervasive video game myths as part of their coverage of the Impact of Gaming in their Video Game Revolution series. I was very surprised for their findings. The 8 myths they debunked: The availability of video games has led to an epidemic of youth violence. Scientific [...]

Checkout the RocketBoom Video Blog with Amanda Congdon for December 2nd. It would appear she is at a university questioning people as they walk by if they prefer Internet Explorer or Firefox. From my own field tests I showed that Firefox was way ahead of Internet Explorer among my visitors, and growing at a very [...]