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Lucky Sevens is a new series of list posts here at slightly insightful. Everyone knows that “list” posts are always terrific blog fodder, but Top 10 lists are so cliché. After experimenting with various lengths, I’ve determined that seven is the perfect size for list posts. How did I come up to this conclusion? Here are seven [...]

Beloved by geeks all the world over, Tux, the penguin, makes a pretty adorable mascot for the Open Source operating system Linux. But, kids don’t want to be mascots. They want to be superheroes. This is one Halloween mistake we’ll never make again.

Spam and phishing are major annoyances that we all face and often I have to thoroughly examine an email to verify its validity. Other times, as is in this case, the communication is so bad it’s laughable. Generally, Gmail does a fine job keeping my Inbox free of junk email. However, this lovely bit of spam [...]

When a friend suggested that I try Microsoft Bing’s new shopping site I thought I’d have a little fun. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you already know that the latest and greatest version of Mac OS X (AKA Snow Leopard) is due out today, August 28th. So, I thought I’d see how [...]

Cause I’m Evil, originally uploaded by abeckstrom. I think I’m one of the few guys in my building at work who washes his hands after using the restroom. It’s disturbing, I know. In fact, it’s down-right evil. This is what I hear 90% of the time. Sound of toilet flushing . . . Sound of door opening [...]

Because I’m a geek and because I have a wife who puts up with me, I got an A-320 Dingoo Digital for Father’s Day. I’ve been meaning to write about it ever since, but I’ve been too “busy” playing with the darn thing ever since I picked it up. The Dingoo is a [...]

Once a year the heavens smile upon us and we are blessed with the privilege of buying Girl Scout Cookies. The best of the bunch are Thin Mints. For the uninitiated, Thin Mints are slim, mint-flavored chocolate cookies dipped in chocolate and they rock. I’ve often wondered how you could make them better. [...]

Doppelgänger might just be my favorite word ever. I’m always looking for excuses to work it into conversation. This is no small feat, mind you. In order to say it, you not only need to know what it means, but you usually need to have seen one. Not sure what a doppelgänger is? [...]

Now that some of the initial hype over last week’s big iPhone 3.0 announcement has died down I thought it would a perfect time to reflect on iPhone 2.0. I’m not talking about the iPhone 3G, this is way earlier. In a time before the Web was 2.0 and when 56k was still considered a [...]

Foreigners and locals seem to agree that two of the best things to do in Singapore are eat and shop. I’ve never heard anyone rave about the drinks though. After seeing some of the available beverage options here, you’ll see why. There’s no power out there that could make me drink this heinous stuff. How [...]