Everything you ever wanted to know about buying technology for business can be found here, in my monster Business Buying Guide (10 parts, trickling out over the next few days/weeks) at ZDNet. Check it out!

A pretty big honking interview with me appears today on Lexis Nexis’s “The Scoop.” What insights I have, there you’ll find.

Just thinking out loud here… The RIAA had a 2001 operating budget of $44 million (according to some website… these are ballpark figures). That budget is drawn directly from music sales and represents a percentage of the gross. In 2001, music CD sales totalled $12.9 billion. That means that for every $18.98 CD you buy,…

Now this game is a lot of fun. You’ll figure out how it works.

Here’s a fun little experiment: Replace the battery in your cordless phone with a new one, but reverse the polarity. The smoke that comes out of the phone is fragrant, like a salmon steak cooking on a hibachi. Try it with roasted vegetables.

I’m not sure what this Spanish-language show is all about, but I’m watching it right now due to a sudden and severe cold making actual work all but impossible. The show appears to be some combination of game show, karaoke, and dancing women in various stages of undress. Who says Japan has all the good…

Long overdue.

I always get angry mail when I write stories like this. Invariably they accuse me of glamorizing the hacker and ask whether it’s ok to try to break into my house just to “test” security. The irony is that the companies that are hacked are always happy to hear from me — since they’re getting…

When was the last time you were this happy?* PS My wife reeks of garlic. Help. *No, I have no idea what’s up with the lazy eye. She doesn’t have that in real life.

My old pal Martin Sargent’s new show premieres tonight on TechTV… 11pm, it seems. Check it out!

Am I crazy, or did the ad on the radio just hype a movie called The In Dash Laws???

I suddenly have enormous respect for Vincent Gallo. So many of today’s filmmakers and stars need to sign on with him on this vow…

I wrote the script, much of the story outline, and hundreds of pages of dialogues for the videogame Amen: The Awakening (meant to be the first part of a trilogy) in 1995-96. The game got cancelled, but remnants of it still survive on the web. Check it out. (Link courtesy Charles Statman, who I named…

Is Gillette surfing weblogs? 2 weeks ago I mocked the Mach 3 razor and plans for a four-bladed razor. Today, a free sample Mach 3 arrived in the mail along with some coupons and a form letter from the company (“Dear Valued Customer”). I know I’m not on any customer list since I haven’t bought…

Luddite? Can’t blame ya.

Thrill seekers.

On the freeway today I ran over what looked like a fluttering piece of paper… turned out it was a lost license plate. It took a big chunk out of my fender as it clattered under my car. Nice. Thanks, people.

Respect for my field: (from an ad for the upcoming Agent Cody Banks DVD) * Audio Commentary with Director Harald Zwart, Frankie Muniz and Angie Harmon * Audio Commentary with a writer

Oddity: The first disc of the Pearl Harbor DVD (the first half of the movie!) is in the top 10 all time rentals at Netflix. The second disc — that is, the conclusion of the film — does not even rank in the top 100. (In other words, few people cared enough to watch the…

Neat Google trick.