Miami's loss was Minneapolis' gain.

an attractive USB device could host something undesirable. Smart clients won't touch them.

... so I followed the link in the article and checked the Register Complaint box and hit "Go"

Brains!

I heard Mandelbrot talk at IBM a few years ago. He was concerned about the increase in volatility of the financial markets - this was before 2008 - and I wonder what his last thoughts were on the subject of economics.

Whatever will we do with ourselves?

My prediction: when the $100 barrier is broken and laptops are in the supermarkets, the impact of this on the internet will be comparable to that of AOL.

Roger Ebert recently wrote about his life after surgery. He can no longer take anything by mouth. I can't imagine life without taste, but he lives it.

Does this mean I'll get a job this year?

The tech jobs market in Boston does feel less dead now than it did for most of 2009. I entered the job market in April and it was six months before I had an interview. Now I've had three in three months. It's tricky to extrapolate from those data points to locate a job offer but it does give me hope.

As far as I know, nobody has an email address at the "ibm.com" domain because IBM Corp. doesn't do email that way!

All IBM email addresses use subdomains, like us.ibm.com for the USofA.

I got one of these from a hijacked Yahoo! mail account. This isn't limited to HotMail.

I cannot wait to see, try, and then buy the Google Phone. I hope that the rumors are true.

What I would like even more would be the Google counterpart to the iPod Touch: the Android palmtop computer without the phone (but with the camera, please).

I guess it depends on what you want to use this for. Me, I want more attention, so it's all good.

That's a way to dumb down the city.

The Mac mini isn't hard to work with on the inside. The worst part is getting it open. After that it's a lot of tiny screws. I did a memory upgrade on the first try with a set of photos as a guide.

If you look at the instructions and decide it's not something you want to try, then it may be best to stick to software.