Saturday, February 18, 2006

Teenage Boys, Cheese and a Hot Glue Gun

by alec on February 18, 2006


The Hot Cheese Gun, originally uploaded by Alec Saunders.

 

I couldn’t figure out why the hot glue gun shorted out yesterday. Today, while downloading photos from my camera, I came across this…

So what are you looking at? My two oldest sons carved a piece of cheese into the shape of a hot glue stick, put it in the gun, and used it to make cheesie crackers.

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Check out this hilarious posting from ZDNet’s Russell Shaw.  He’s discovered Wolfgang’s Vault, which is a repository of all kinds of material from the Bill Graham collection. And Vault Radio is continuous streaming rare live recordings from the sixties and seventies.  I’ve spent the whole morning listening to vintage recordings of Elvis Costello, Led Zeppelin, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Bruce Springsteen, CCR… the list goes on and on. Very cool!

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GMail and Hotmail Do Presence

February 18, 2006

I was working away this morning when my GTalk popped.  It was Jeff, trying out a new feature of GMail. 8:09 AM jeff.pulver: are you also using gmail 8:10 AM me: try not to. Have too many email addresses  jeff.pulver: i am chatting via gmail right now  me: from within gmail?  jeff.pulver: from inside gmail – while [...]

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Can Vonage Make a $Billion in Revenue?

February 18, 2006

Jon Arnold’s been digging through some research from ChangeWave on residential VoIP.  It’s good stuff — hard data and analysis.  Right at the end, he writes: Vonage will be hard pressed to hit 3 million US subs by end of year. I don’t know what their IPO plans are forecasting, but 3 million would put [...]

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