2009 March

Archive for March, 2009

Review of New Television Shows Part One: Dollhouse

This is the first of a five part series I will be writing reviewing some of the new television shows I have watched this year. Some of the shows are already finishing up for the year while others are just hitting their stride. The shows I am going to review are Dollhouse, Fringe, Life on [...]

Big Tea Congressional Hearing Needed

A report was released today establishing a link between drinking black tea at temperatures above 70C and oesophageal cancer (I thought the spelling was wrong for oesophageal as did my spell check, but the BBC begs to differ see the article here)
The difficulty with this story is that no one knows what the C stands [...]

Heroes Appears to be Turning Around

The first season of Heroes was truly a wonder to behold. It was a huge ratings win for NBC. It was also able to be the rare network show which created a buzz every week. I remember going into work on Tuesdays after Heroes was on and everyone would be talking about it. Sure there [...]

Much Ado About Nothing: Facebook Changes Anger Some No Time to Discuss as Using Facebook Apps

You may have seen some status updates from some of your Facebook friends railing against the latest changes to Facebook. I believe I have seen them, but I have not paid too much attention to them as I have been busier with other things. I have even began seeing groups created with the intention of [...]

Bad Movie Ideas Volume One

Like my last column where I made up a rumor about a new Apple product, this column will be about ideas that I made up. Instead of making up rumors about new Apple products I will instead come up with ideas for new movies which I think are terrible, but upon further reflection I will [...]

Checking Your Blood Sugar: There’s An App For That

The latest Apple rumor is that they will soon release an app for checking your blood sugar and that they will eventually come out with either an accessory  or a separate device yet to be named to check your blood sugar to be sold separately. Well not really, but I could picture the commercial for [...]

Boston: The Celtics, Teddy Kennedy and My Bro on an Unforgettable and Heartbreaking Journey

About a month ago I wrote a post about my trip to Boston to see a Celtics game with my brother. Well on Sunday I made yet another voyage to the state of my birth again with my brother who was also born in the Bay State. The last post focused on the thrilling game [...]