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Last week I purchased my latest cheap office chair. It’s an AK Designs Octane chair purchased from Best Buy. My experience is that any of the sub-$200 chairs purchased from retail stores will last about two years before the mechanism that allows the chair to rock and turn will wear out to the point that it loudly squeaks when you use it. At $150, I fully expect this chair to be no different.

The good

This chair is just really comfortable. The sides of the back wrap around you so it feels similar to a sports car seat designed to hold … Continue Reading

Last weekend I installed a Scosche FM-MOD01 Modulator in my 2001 Chevy Blazer. Now that I have used it for a full week I can share my opinion of it. The Scosche FM-MOD01 Modulator is a wired FM Modulator that adds RCA jacks to a car stereo without them. Instead of using my old battery powered FM transmitter with my iPod, the new modulator allows me to tune my factory radio to a certain station and plug the iPod into a wired in headphone jack.

The purchase
I purchased the Scosche FM-MOD01 Modulator from Crutchfield.com and received it within a couple days. … Continue Reading

Six months ago I wrote about how excited I was that I discovered it was possible to add a line in jack to my factory car stereo so I could play my Ipod without the little FM transmitter. Yesterday I finally broke down and ordered the Scosche FM-MOD01 Modulator from Crutchfield. Before I talked about how it was only $30. Well, its still $30 but required an additional $20 in adapters for it to work in my Chevy Blazer that uses some wierd, smaller than normal antenna plug. I swear it won’t take me another six months to install … Continue Reading

I use my Ipod mainly for listening to audiobooks on my trips to work and school, and have been frustrated with the wireless FM transmitters that I’ve been using. Back when I was a kid we had a car that just had an AM radio, and we had a little FM box that mounted under the dash and went in-line with the antenna, so you tuned your AM radio to a certain frequency and it played whatever the FM box was tuned to. I’ve been hoping something similar would come along for external mp3 players, but have only been able … Continue Reading

Bill Gates puts his foot in his mouth in this one. We all know Google’s philosophy is “Don’t be evil”, so I guess Microsoft is adopting “be evil”. It’s always fun to take people’s words out of context.

CNet: So that would be the philosophical difference between Microsoft and what Google is up to at this point?
Gates: Well, we don’t know everything they are up to, but we do know their slogan and we disagree with that.