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I placed my order for a Shaun Jackson Back Office laptop backpack last night, it should be here sometime next week. I’ve grown very tired of schlepping my briefcase — and a backpack seemed a good answer. Buzz recommended the Eddie Bauer backpack, but finding one was going to require a bit of hunting. And…

Saw a very positive review of OnlyMyEmail, a web-based service that filters your email and grabs all viruses, spam and other nefarious email before you ever see it. Since I’m now using my Treo to check email when I’m away from the computer, handling all of the spam was really getting annoying. I’m using OME…

Mostly for those of you reading in an aggregator, I’m making some changes to the blog this week. In no particular order: back to one RSS feed. I used to make two feeds available, one with excerpts and one with the full feed. Thanks to FeedBurner’s stats, I know that the full feed was more…

Saw Dennis’s post about Ernie, and this snippet caught my attention: In fact, on the list of my great musical regrets is never getting to chance to see Professor Longhair do a show in New Orleans. I might write about some of the other regrets one of these days. It’s interesting how my Professor Longhair…

This sounds like a great idea… The always amusing Onion‘s own AV club has an interesting new way to goof around with a TiVo: set a random keyword wishlist and automatically record to see what you capture in 24 hours, dubbed TiVo Wishlist Roulette. They set it to “War” and let it go to town,…

Why, none other than the current president. “As near as I can tell, it’s OK.” If ever there was a motto for the Bush administration, that is it. Just about sums it up, actually.

Ernie the Attorney is now blogging at Tech FengShui, a blog that focuses on making technology simple and useful. This is supposed to be simple? I missed that memo.

Over at BenedictXVI.com, Rogers has a couple requests in exchange for transferring ownership of ‘benedictxvi.com’ to the Vatican. My favorite, number 3: “Complete absolution, no questions asked, for the third week of March 1987.”

I wrote earlier this week about our week in Florida, and alluded to my laptop woes. Here’s the rest of the story: we flew to Orlando on Saturday morning. On Sunday, after a busy morning, we got the kids back to the room for a nap, and I fired up the laptop to catch up…

Last week’s vacation was primarily at Disney World. Thanks to a long-ago recommendation from Ernie, Robin and I knew about the villas on property at Disney — part of the Disney Vacation Club (Disney’s time-share system), they’re available to guests when space permits. We each ended up staying in 2 bedroom villas, which gave us…