Maine’s Tea Partier-in-Chief, Paul LePage, has been in the news quite a bit lately; most recently he told off the NAACP the week before Martin Luther King Jr Day, calling …

Wow, this combines two of my favorite stories of the last few weeks – one can now pay at Starbucks using one’s iPhone!
Check out: “Now at Starbucks: Buy a Latte …

I’ve been dreaming of maglev transit since I was in 8th grade (where I won the Science Fair, you may note).
Now today I just saw this article: “Maglev Rail Transportation …

Those of you at home probably (hopefully) won’t notice anything different, but the blog here is now optimized for smart phones, like my new iPhone.
This is what iPhone viewers see …

I meant to mention the new Starbucks Coffee logo the other week but was swept up in other nonsense.
It’s okay. Nothing earth-shattering. (Although changing the logo on 16,000-some-odd …

No, not the next movie (the currently titled “Bond 23” coming out November 9, 2012) but the next novel, coming out May 26, 2011.

Just today publisher Simon & Schuster announced …

Today’s the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Macintosh Plus – the first Mac my family ever owned.

It’s a far cry from today’s MacBooks and iMacs, but back then it sure was …

Today marks the 25th anniversary of Epcot’s The Seas with Nemo & Friends Pavilion (formerly “The Living Seas”).

You might remember that John Ritter hosted the television special that introduced us …

I love factoids like this:
With the arrival of snow in New York and the unusually severe storm in the South – which dumped more than a foot of snow in …

Not to make this “all Apple, all of the time”, but in case you missed it today, Verizon is coming out with the iPhone 4 on February 10.

Hopefully this competition …

Sunday was the tenth anniversary of iTunes, and apparently also the fourth anniversary of Apple’s iPhone!

I can’t believe that it took me four years to get one …

Ooh! Two of my favorite things: Disney and recipes! Check out: “Taste of Disney“.
Not many at this point, but maybe they’ll add more …

I missed this yesterday but it’s worth a mention – Apple’s iTunes music player software was released ten years ago, on January 9, 2001.

I for one wouldn’t want to go …

Nothing steams me more than when people re-write history for their own nefarious purposes. Sure, much of history is subjective, and it generally is written by the victors, but …

You might have seen this today: “Mickey Mouse magic: Disney plans Israel theme park“.
This is kind of not true.
Kind of.
The “Disney” in this case is not “The Walt Disney Company” …

So Dad is doing well with his new knee, he got home last night.
And went promptly to bed.
I can only imagine a surgery like that takes a bit out of …

Sorry for the lack of posts, it’s been a busy few weeks.
Now today I’m distracted as my dad’s going in to Maine Med to get a knee replaced.
So please take …

This is a test to see if updating from my new iPhone works …

We got each other iPhones for Christmas.
And they are fantastic.

Just saw this Yahoo! News blog post: “U.S. military angers Iran by calling Persian Gulf ‘Arabian Gulf’“.
Sounds like something I would have written about two-or-three years ago … in fact, …