Engadget has a great commentary on Gmail adding the option to unthread messages. http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/29/re-google-gives-crazy-people-an-option-to-turn-off-gmails-conv/ For those who recall a time before threading please think before you decide to turn threading off, remember the early days of email we’re that fun.  For those who don’t remember that time, its probably what the cool kids will be [...]

Starting with one… a very logical place to start. When it comes to Star Wars, IV is the place to start.  George Lucas may have forgotten that as it seems he is going to be releasing his Star Wars movies in 3D (whole ‘nother article) starting in 2012 with… Episode One. http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/28/star-wars-flicks-to-see-3d-re-release-starting-with-episode-1-i/ Sorry to give [...]

Now I’m really stretching it right? Nope, how to get married for less money than a trip to the Regal… go downtown, get marriage license (40 bucks) done. (See past post on the topic) But that’s a cop out!  But its the truth! Ok you want a tougher way to skin this cat? $15-20,000 that’s [...]

Today Yahoo opened its new data center, officially called the “Yahoo Computing Coop”, unofficially called the “Yahoo Chicken Coop”.  In the Buffalo/Niagara Falls suburb of Lockport, NY. Why?  The basic architectural principle is based on the Chicken Coup.  Using louvers to take in cool air to cool down the server farm (pun intended). It is [...]

“Its good to be a bull in a china shop” A treatise on lessons of common knowledge If there is anything Mythbusters has taught us it is to expect the unexpected. There is an old saying about clumsy people, they act like a “bull in a china shop”.  That has seemed to be good wisdom [...]