Sigh. Last week was terrible, for pretty much everyone I think. Who saw all those upsets coming? I went 7-9, which I suppose is respectable. I mean, the Seahawks made the playoffs last year with the same record. There were so many upsets last week, I mean – the Packers? ...

Just in time for my trip to New York City next month, one of my favorite guide book series is giving it away. Lonely Planet has made its guide to the Big Apple free in the iTunes store. But you better grab your copy of The Lonely Guide to New York ...

True to our ape roots, the Geeklings and I are big fans of bananas. It’s hard to beat a curved yellow fruit at the peak of ripeness: all green-ness gone and no brown spots showing yet. As it turns out, there is a surprising amount of engineering and logistical planning ...

Ten years ago today I was just six months into my new life as a married man. I didn’t have children yet and I was pretty happy at a new job at UPS. I had been at work for just a few minutes that morning when someone came by the ...

What should a geeky family do for a week in New York in September? We’ll be fresh from the wilds of Iceland and on our way to Peru and we have one week to make sure we extract maximum value from New York with our ten and eight year old boys. What should we do? Empire State ...

A year ago, I wrote about a budding innovator, entrepreneur and musician who had this whacky idea that the iPad could be used to make and mix music. The trolls came out in droves when I profiled “iPad DJ” Rana June. What a difference a year makes. The point of the ...

The worldwide finalists for this year’s Imagine Cup in New York City have been announced. 124 teams from 73 countries all of the world will convene in New York City to compete head to head in what can be best described as a kind of technology Olympics. Covering categories such as ...

In the world of automobiles, as consumers, we take a lot of things for granted. Take car safety, for example. We might look at things like crash safety ratings, and might even pick up a copy of Consumer Reports, but there are so many things behind the scenes of car ...

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