Toshiba's new TV has a 218GFlop PS3 processor inside
Full disclosure, in conjunction with new FTC regulations regarding blogging about products. Toshiba, its affiliates and subsidiaries in no way influenced this posting with an offer to give me aCELL REGZA 55X1LCD television set in exchange for my views on this most awesome and excellent innovation to home th

What I learned at the DMV
Not me, I can't take credit for this lovely list.A friend of mine, who is a bit of a curmudgeon but who has a keen eye for the absurd, sent this to me.

Decorum, Outburst, Parry, Thrust, Riposte!
Today, in a fit of pique, I decided to parry with Salon.com and take a tilt a pop culture reporting. What an utter waste of time. To prove that it is thus, I "retweet" it here, to use the vernacular. Decorum is dead! Long live the outburst! --at Salon.comIf this article had not been published, would it have made a noise? --my letter to the Editor(anywhere else this would just be a feedback forum, but Salon pretends to be a print rag)Why do I waste m

Parade Laps at the Monterey Historic Races
Monterey Historics Porsche Club of America Parade Laps from Chris S Markham on Vimeo.

The Maestro gets Domain Parked: One site, One story
HCP Research is Dead, Long Live HCP Research.comI'm not a total wizard at reverse lookups and ICANN records, but it appears that the former home of Harry Pellow's HCP Research, once at http://hcpresearch.com/ has been re-registered and parked on or about 15 June of 2009, the very when the previous domain registration expired. Talk on the 356Talk web forum indicated that Harry's heir, Andrew, was alerted to the lapse too late. He found out on the 25th of June. I had raised the issue on 356Talk just two days prior. The site had been sniped by that time already,