Computing in the Cloud: Jolicloud and Chrome OS

Many of the technology sites that I frequent are loaded with articles and opinions about Google’s foray into the OS market. I have to say, when I first heard about Chrome OS I was pretty excited to see what it had to offer. I have been using various Google products (Picasa, Gmail, Docs, Wave, etc.) [...]

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Song of the Day- Creed: “On My Sleeve” from the album- Full Circle

Creed is one of those bands I listened to a lot during high school. The mix of solid, thought provoking lyrics mixed with Scott Stapp’s gritty vocals and the stellar guitar work of Mark Tremonti have made Creed one of the staples of my music collection for nearly a decade. In my opinion, it was [...]

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Music Lovers, It’s Time to Leave Itunes and Give the Zune Software a Go

A little over a year ago I gave into the Ipod cult and purchased an Itouch to use primarily for the PDA type features and the ability to take the internet with me in my pocket. Unfortunately, that also meant that I was stuck with Itunes (I know there is freeware out there, I just [...]

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Braveheart- A Blu-Ray Review

I’m a fairly recent comer to all things high definition. Earlier this year I picked up an Xbox 360 HD-DVD drive because it was cheap and the cheap movies offered an economical way to break into HD movies without breaking the bank. Since then, I have built a HTPC with an HD-DVD/Blu-Ray combo drive which [...]

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John Cooper on “Awake”

If you want to know the story/inspiration behind some of the songs on Skillet’s new album “Awake,” here’s what John Cooper had to say courtesy of Stereotruth.
“Hero”- This song is the platform over which the whole record was written. Basically every day seems to get weirder, darker and scarier with thousands of people losing their [...]

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“Awake”- Skillet Album Review

After the release of the amazing “Comatose” in 2006, Skillet was going to be hard pressed to put out an album that was not a let down in some way. “Comatose” attracted legions of new fans (both Christian and non-Christian) to the band thanks to the stellar mix of rock anthems, power ballads, and unflinching [...]

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Thoughts on N.T. Wright’s “Surprised by Hope”

One of my books to read this summer was N.T. Wright’s book Surprised by Hope. I finished the book this afternoon and thought I would share a few thoughts about the book.
1. The book is accessible. N.T. Wright is a first rate scholar and some of his works are tough slogs. Not so with this [...]

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“Lie to Me”-or- When TV shows become unwatchable due to the blatant political bias and bigotry of the program

Earlier this year, when the Fox television program “Lie to Me” premiered, my wife and I were interested to see the program. Both of us have backgrounds in psychology so the idea of a show that was based on analysis of body language was intriguing. Well, we only lasted a handful of episodes before we [...]

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Movie Review: Star Trek

If there are levels of Trekkies, I’m probably somewhere in the middle. I don’t read the novels, go to the conventions, or collect the action figures (although I did have a sweet model Enterprise D when I was a kid). That said, I have been watching Star Trek for as long as I can remember. [...]

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A Brief Layman’s Review/Overview of Windows 7 x64 (RC 1)

I confess that I jumped on the Windows 7 bandwagon early on. I had resisted upgrading to Vista for really no other reason than not having a computer that I deemed acceptable to run the heavier (compared XP) OS. I know Vista had some problems early on, but at this point on the OS’s life [...]

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