Technology Gone Wild

* Maybe it's just me. I follow the Engadet.com blog fairly religiously. Technology is fun and exciting. There are new gizmos and gadgets coming everyday. Some actually make it to market, and some are just concept ideas that never gain traction.

* Did you read that former Miami Dolphins punter Reggie Roby died? He was only 43. Good grief. And Tedy Bruschi had a stroke at 31. You just never know.

* Check out this engadget column about a car with a pop-up bed.

* What cracks me up is when folks use technology to do something that they can do more easily with something else. Like a Tivo records TV programs. That's about it. But some folks will spend thousands getting their networked PC to record shows, and transmit them to whatever TV in the house. It's very cool. It's very complicated. There are FAQ sites all over the web to do it. But is it really needed, when there are Tivos and other like-devices that do it?

* Tornados in Sacramento. That's just funny. Maybe they'll have to change the NBA Sacramento Kings to the Sacramento Tornados. It'd make a cool jersey. And it'd explain their frustration at the free throw line. "Must've been the wind, coach."

* I hate it when you go to a Yahoo news link, and then the site requires a login. I just don't read it. Forget it. And if I do create a login and enter all the personal stuff, I'm just making up stuff anyways.

* If you could get your computer to bake blueberry muffins, it'd be really neat; but to what extreme are we going to take this?

* Whatever happened to the group Loverboy?

* The Contra Costa Times has an article about how the county needs to know the likely effects of a casino. Here, let me help and save the county a few million dollars worth of studies and reports: People will flock there, and they'll lose a bunch of money.

* I'm certainly guilty of technology gone wildness myself, shopping for the PDA phone that can make calls, surf the web, play MP3s, and snap pictures. Heck, if I could find one that also bakes blueberry muffins, I'd plunk down the cash today.