This is going to result in many grandmothers calling their techy grandkids

This morning when I perused the Mercury News, I was alerted by a red box at the top where the weather forecast lives. Severe Weather, it said. Wow… what’s going on, I wondered? Clicking it led me to this  [more...]

Generally speaking, Amazon.com’s algorithms are somewhat useful in suggesting things I might like. But no so much for other people. This morning I noticed that it is making suggestions for all the people on my  [more...]

Somewhere between checking in and getting to the gate, my usual luck kicked in. For the last couple of weeks, I’ve been playing with the flight tracking widget in Mac OS X “Tiger,” pleased that my  [more...]