Trivia With which country is the Negev desert most associated? He is one of the Select Five--the first five men voted into the Hall of Fame. He was a pitcher…

This Day in History 1808 At Harvard University, the first college orchestra was founded. 1836 The thirteen-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his army…

Rock Salt Vicki and I went to the Rock Salt Steak House on Lake Union, for dinner, on Valentine's Day. I had never heard of the place until our favorite radi…

MP3 Connector I just ordered one. We currently have to un/plug our computers from the stereo in our home-office. Sounds like this little device will do the t…

Don't Drive and Call I don't know you about you, but I find people driving while cellularing extremely annoying. If someone really needs to be on the phone w…

MRJ 2.2.4 Apple has not yet updated the download page, yet. You can get the new version directly from here or through the Software Update control panel. I Lo…

Java Editor I've been using a combination of BBEdit, TextPad and VIM for a few years now. My heroic trio does not really excel with Java code, but I've yet t…