Quality Guarantee or Price Gouging?

I know manufacturers always charge more when you buy replacement parts from them. Buy a 1TB hard drive from Big Company X and you pay more than double what you would pay at Frys, for the exact same hard drive. The difference? if you buy the hard drive from Big Company X, [...]

Left Lane Courtesy

Before the holiday rush, I noticed quite a few articles about left lane courtesy. In some states it is even illegal to drive in the left lane unless you are passing another vehicle, and in other states there is a general law that states you cannot impede the flow of traffic (going too slow, [...]

AT&T DSL = FAIL

I guess you could say I have a hate-hate relation ship with DSL. From 1999-2001 I worked at an Orlando ISP, which is about the time when DSL made its way into the world of high-speed residential Internet access. At the time, cable modems were capped between 1.5Mbps and 3.0Mbps, which was plenty [...]

Do you know where your elders are?

I’m sure that pretty much everyone is familiar with Amber Alerts for missing children. Many cities with highway status signs are setup to broadcast these amber alerts so that the word gets out to thousands of drivers very quickly .. Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and Dallas/Fort Worth in Texas are just a few that [...]