Okay, I think this is just cool.  A robot that sweats for testing clothing... Swiss Sweating Robot

I just recently purchased the Canon HG20 HD camcorder.  It has a 60 Gb hard drive and records high-def 1080p video.  It also has a 12x optical zoom.  I'm very pleased with my purchase.  It is an excellent unit.  I bought it to start recording videos for the Robot Geek projects.  However, it does produce mts or MPEG Transport Stream files.  I ... [More]

You may be one of the easy going people who doesn't mind the UAC being turned on in Vista and nagging you when you're trying to do most anything on your machine.  All the power to you and you must be a saint.  I, however, immediately turn off UAC because it annoys the hell out of me.  But now Windows 7 beta has the new feature for selecting the nag level of UAC. ... [More]

I'll be speaking at the Madison .NET User Group meeting on Wednesday, January 21.  I'll be talking about virtualization.  You can read more about the presentation by going to: Maximize your Development using Virtualization

I bought a Pleo a few months ago.  My kids are fascinated by it.  They enjoy petting and feeding it.  The Pleo is a cute little robot, sorry... I mean, artificial lifeform.  Don't expect it to play fetch and run around like a dog though.  The motors can only go so fast moving his limbs.  I've found that after prolonged movement, his battery gets hot. ... [More]