Welcome to My Blog
Here is a masonry blog layout with no sidebarDrobo may change everything
I love gadgets, but I am an electrical engineer with years of experience playing with gadgets, so it takes a lot to impress me. Drobo impresses me. In case you haven't heard, Drobo is a "data robot" that offers fault tolerant data storage. For the average consumer,...
Niche Stores: phpBay an Excellent Choice (review)
This is a completely unsolicited review of phpBay Pro WordPress Plugin (but it does contain affiliate links). According to the Wired Studio's website, phpBay Pro enables web publishers to quickly and easily add keyword rich Ebay auction listings to Wordpress or php...
Great Internet Monetization Site
I was looking around on ShoeMoney last night, and I ran across Caroline Middlebrook's Blog. It really resonated with me. Caroline quit her day job about six months ago in order to follow her dreams of becoming an Internet entrepreneur. Her blog is the record of...
MasonWorld.com back on the air
After a several day hiatus, we are back on the air. I converted the blog from b2evolution to wordpress, and things seem to be running well. A server move is next, but that should be transparent. Comments were not easy to migrate. If you commented on a previous...
Motorola RAZR2 Luxury Edition
OK – You have got to be kidding me. I am looking at the new Motorola: RAZR2 Luxury Edition cellphone. The special edition RAZR2 has gone nuts with 18k and 24k gold plated accents on a black metal finish. It has pin stripes on the lens, an engraved diamond-cut pattern...
GlowCap Featured on the Today Show
The Today Show is at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week, and this morning they featured something called a GlowCap. The GloCap is a smart pill bottle cap that can talk wirelessly to the internet. This GlowCap device can report when it is removed, allowing...
World's Largest TV
Man, I wish I was at CES in Vegas. What a party. Today, Panasonic showed off the world’s largest television. The viewing area measures 11 feet by 6 1/4 feet. It has 8.84 million pixels of resolution. Panasonic has not announced a model number or a release date. You...
My Dad's Potato Soup Recipe
Actually, Dad got the recipe from his friend Marie and tweeked it some. He made this potato soup over the holidays. It was great. We discussed that it might be even better with a couple of teaspoons of flour and a stalk or two of celery. 1 large onion chopped 1 bag (5...
Adding FeedFlare to b2evolution with Multiple Blogs
b2evolution is a great blog tool that includes all the features of traditional blog tools, and add cool stuff like file & photo management, advanced skinning, multiple blogs support, detailed user permissions and third party plug-ins! FeedFlare is a way to give...
New Year's Resolution: Easy Plan for Losing Weight
Well, my New Year’s Resolution (one of two resolutions this year) is to lose weight. Now that is a big surprise. Each year I resolve to lose weight, and most years I fail. This year will be different, however, as this resolution will be blog-powered. I figure that if...
Making Money Selling eBooks
You will recall that I am generally interested in the topic of how people are making money on the internet. One of the ways that you often hear about is through the sale of eBooks. Well, I figured the best way to learn about this was to investigate directly. I bought...
The Rise and Fall of the Sun on Earth
My buddy Tom recently emailed to remind me that here in Texas, now is a great time to show your kids the dawn and nightfall shadows on http://www.die.net/earth/hemisphere.html and see how much the shadow is tipped. Then, come back in 3 months and see that the shadow...
Merry Christmas
Here’s hoping that you have a very Merry Christmas!
I love my RIM Blackberry 8880
I love my RIM Blackberry 8880. I can do almost anything with this gadget, and so I have decided to blog about it some in the coming months. Stay tuned. BlackBerry 8800 myFaves Smartphone (T-Mobile) [phpbay]blackberry 8800, 10, "", ""[/phpbay] Case-Mate BB8800C-PB...
MTHEL – Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser
Man Oh Man! Have you seen this demo of the MTHEL - Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser? This thing is really amazing. I am not sure about the political implications of a Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser, but from a technology standpoint, it is really neat....
Fundamental Principles of Optical Lithography
http://www.lithoguru.com/textbook/index.html My friend Chris Mack just published another book on Lithography. Fundamental Principles of Optical Lithography. Check it out. It promises to be the reference for lithographers. Fundamental Principles of Optical Lithography:...
New Year's Resolutions — Get Organized and Get Fit
It’s that time of of year again – time to take inventory and set some goals for the new year. New Year’s resolutions sound so great in early January, and can be such a beating by the time Spring rolls around. To be honest with you, I don’t even remember my new year’s...
Running b2evolution: Multiple Blogs, Multiple Domains, One Install, Shared Host
In this post, I try to describe what I did to get multiple b2evo blogs running on a shared host using only one install of b2evo. I did this on a Lunarpages shared host using b2evo 2.20. Note that this was only possible because b2evo rocks, and because of help I got on...