2010





Read Kindle Books on Your BlackBerry

Get the best reading experience available on your BlackBerry. No Kindle required. Access your Kindle books even if you don’t have your Kindle with you. Automatically synchronizes your last page read and annotations between devices with Whispersync. Create bookmarks and view the annotations you created on your Kindle, computer, or other Kindle-compatible mobile device




Crying Theatrics Turn into Barking Buffoonery

I do not believe that the Obama’s stimulus plan has done any long term good to this economy. In fact, it may have hurt the economy in the long run. But there is no doubt in my mind that the Obama’s economic team was able to save some jobs with this gigantic stimulus bill and […]



Air Video Can Stream Videos to Your iPhone and iPod Touch

Automated server discovery on local network using Apple Bonjour Possibility to add custom servers by specifying IP address and port directly Can be used to stream videos over internet (see the appropriate section in FAQ) Share disk folders and iTunes playlists Optional password protection Add videos to iTunes playlist from iPhone Videos that can not […]




Citibank didn’t have Enough

Citibank neither had enough, nor do they think that they gave us, the citizens enough of their crap. In the Mexican peso crisis of 1994-1995 CitiBank should have gone kaput. Thanks to Clinton’s Treasury Secretary Rubin and Alan Greenspan, Mexico was bailed out. The bailout gave a respite to the Orange County, CA pension fund […]



Weather Blues, Again

Not much snow in Vancouver, BC (Canada) where Winter Olympics are taking place.  But there is a lot of that white stuff in US. More is on the way, this time in the southern states.  Here is an interesting statistic: On this Monday, February 15, 2010 – there is snow somewhere on the ground in […]