It was the summer of 1997 and Apple was on its way to becoming “irrelevent” in the industry. Steve Jobs had been back at Apple for 4 weeks, and he’d already made some big changes. Jobs coming back to Apple was a huge event in the timeline of the computer industry. From the beginnings of […]

Once again, Microsoft is late for the ball. Adding to their long list of technologies including searching, browsers, and the Internet, we can now add RSS. Microsoft has a long history of dismissing technology just to watch it blossom elsewhere while then being forced to play catch-up years later. This time its with RSS.
Another habitual […]

Moving to WordPress from MovableType was a no brainer. One thing keeping me from doing it was my Google indexing. I didn’t want to loose all my indexed posts on Google and have everyone go to 404 pages. Using Alex King’s awesome MT Entry redirect template solved the problem perfectly.
By replacing the old Individual Entry […]

TvTome.com has joined the ranks of CDNow.com. Once an amazing community resource for epidsode information about tv shows, TvTome was the defacto standard for tv meta data. Going there today, I found Tv.com, a C|net owned, ad serving, hard to navigate, and just maybe tv tracking, website.
It looks like C|net has bought the traffic of […]

2 years ago while scanning A Whole Lotta Nothing I found the promise land. A hack that I’d been waiting for my entire life. A way to use one keyboard and mouse with 2 different computers with no hardware assistance.
The History
First there was dual monitors attached to a single computer. Look mom, my cursor […]

Welcome to the low bandwidth version of JTOE. I’ve been working on a new site for a long time and the main point was to get away from Movable Type and move to WordPress. Well, I just can’t wait any longer, so I’m moving over to WP with or without a new site design. The […]

The stretch of Interstate 64 near Hampton, Va landed on NBC Nightly News’ regular series investigating tax dollars being wasted. Friday’s Fleecing of America spotlighted the rediculous length of time it has taken to fix this particular stretch of highway.
If you’re from the Hampton Roads / Tidewater area then you are familiar with the […]

You asked. They delivered. Flickr is giving away its first set of schwagg for free! Just send a self addressed envelope to their address and they’ll hook you up with some buttons and stickers :) They’ll even cover the postage! Gotta love ‘em.