Thursday, April 23, 2009

Happy Days: Running at 12 GB

April 23, 2009 at 8:09 PM

in Gadgetry,Meanderings

I’ve discussed the “smaller” end of the computing spectrum for quite some time, while spending considerably less time and effort devoted to the “upper” end of workstation computing. From what I’ve been told, most people I’ve interviewed (including several of you, gentle readers) are increasingly interested in mobile computing and the class of lightweight (or [...]

IRS as a Bank

April 23, 2009 at 1:16 PM

in Meanderings

Here’s a curious statement made to me at a local Starbucks yesterday: “I got hit hard by the stock market over the past two years, but I’m getting some money back from the IRS.” Wow. So was any of this money from that consumer stimulus package? Apparently not; it was from the taxpayer having overpaid [...]