The local AT&T stores sold out of the iPhone 3G by around 9 AM. The salespeople are telling customers that they can order and pay for an iPhone today, and they will get it by “direct fulfillment”, which they explain means that the phone will show up at the store in 7-10 working days [...]

My friend Sellam Ismail is going to visit this weekend, and I might sell him a computer. I also might have a coin-op video game for him. In an email exchange to make plans, he asked:
Do you need anything from me?
I replied:
World peace, or failing that, maybe some whirled peas?
And his response was:
I [...]

My colocation provider informed me that I went way over bandwidth for June, and would have to either pay a large overage charge, or upgrade to a higher bandwidth tier.  I couldn’t really afford to do either, and was surprised by the large jump in bandwidth, so I started analyzing the logs.  I was expecting [...]

Steve helped me install a window air conditioner yesterday. Actually Steve installed the air conditioner and I only helped a little bit. Just in time, as it turns out, since it’s in the nineties this week, after a week of cooler weather.  My bedroom is upstairs, and gets very hot.
Air conditioners designed [...]