No Kings!

Author: Mike Pihlman

  • Where I have been…

    In case you are checking and wondering where the new posts are…. I’ve been so extremely lucky to have landed a short term (now three weeks long) substitute teaching position in a 7th Grade class in the Jefferson Elementary School District. Since starting, I have had to RUN as fast as I can run just…

  • iPod Touch Review

    Rating: 4 WaterTowers My wife was deciding on an iPod or an iPod Touch. Being selfish, and wanting to play with the iPod Touch so I could write about it here, I encouraged her to spend the big bucks on a 32 Gig iPod Touch. I won! Hmmmm, in 25 years I think that is…

  • Watching the Olympics on NBC.com

    UPDATE June 2023: This is soooo old even the pictures are gone! 🙂 Consider this a cool HISTORY lesson on streaming video, WAY BEFORE, streaming video was a thing. Rating: 5 WaterTowers OK..this is COOL I went to the nbc.com web site and signed up (all you need is your Zip code and browser…yes, Firefox…

  • Linksys Wireless Router Installation and Review

    Linksys Wireless Router Installation and Review

    Rating: 4 WaterTowers This past week I purchased and installed a Linksys Wireless Router for a client. But before I installed the system at their location, I tried it at home to make sure it worked. It did. Product Linksys Wireless Router WRT54G2 comes in a sleek package looking more like a flying saucer than…

  • Embed Video on a Blog

    It is actually very easy to embed a video on a blog. On YouTube, there is an easy way to grab a bit of code called: embed. Hmmmm, words that say what they mean. In a Blog, such as this one, you have to go into the “Edit HTML” mode and paste the embed code…

  • Telecommuting and the Segway

    OK…we have all heard and seen T. Boone Picken’s and Al Gore’s plans for saving the environment. Great plans… (Political comment to Congress and the Prez: Spend the money on the future of renewable energy sources). Today, I saw an article that stated that telecommuting is just as bad as commuting since you will still…

  • Cuil: A New Search Engine

    This week some ex-Google employees launched a new web search engine: Cuil. Pronounced: Cool. Being the curious type I went to the Cuil web site and fired up a few searches. So far it appears as though they still have a bit of work to do. Here are two screen shots of a search for…

  • Cool Application: AT&T Video Share

    I was poking around the Internet looking for 3G cell phone video conferencing applications (I did NOT find one, by the way) when I ran across the AT&T Video Share app. This is interesting even though it is only one way video (it has two way audio). With the right phone and the right service,…

  • Save the Environment

    I am starting a new post “Label” called “Save the Environment”. Under this new label will go all the Telecommuting and some of the renewable energy articles I have posted recently. It is time to become aware that the human race is harming the environment, endangering both animals and humans alike (we are animals….). The…

  • Switch to Renewable Energy

    Switch to Renewable Energy

      There has been some action in the news in the past week, or so, concerning the use, and switch to, renewable energy. Although this is not an area I normally cover, I am VERY interested in the environment (and very concerned about global warming). I would like to see us change the way we…