Saving memories

Don't want to lose those precious holiday pictures, home videos, and all your other data? Here's my occasional update on data storage technology, and, this time around, we look at the small-but-mighty 2.5 inch hard drives.

If you're looking for MEGAbyte, the store mentioned in my column, their site is here.

Ocean power and random napkins

Make electricity from waves, tides, or currents? That's the topic for the Feb. 22 column...

A company called Verdant Power has some cool information and photos on their site; I took this photo from their site.

Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto

We take a respite from weighty topics today, and ponder the latest kink in an old chain: visions of robots that are human, all-too-human in today's Tribune.

Here is the referenced article.


Photo from the Drudge Report.

Time Mismanagement

Maybe hard work will pay off in the future, but laziness pays off immediately.

Accepting Reality

Here is my Feb. 1 column.

Chaos and happy hour

"Today is one of those days when we have to put off happy hour for a few moments and dig into some real economics. I sure hate it when the outside world intrudes into my fun time. Ah, welcome to 2008, dear Commonwealth, which is already shaping up to be an economic humdinger..."

Here's the rest of the article...

Who holds the bag?

It's time for some straight talk about the CNMI's economic situation, so here it is. No sugar-coating here!

As an aside, I'll mention that I may offer a presentation or two on the CNMI economic situation, to include the tourism situation, for members of the private sector who are interested in such things. I'm not long-winded, so any presentation would be brief, about 30 minutes. If you're interested in attending, let me know; we've got plenty of lead time, I'll probably shoot for sometime this summer.

The peso, the dollar, and everything

As I've been saying for over a decade in the Tribune, the U.S. dollar is doomed. Here's my latest take on it. Seems like markets are, at long last, heeding reality.

E-mail purgatory

Has e-mail gone from blessing to curse? It sure seems like it sometimes.

It's a good theme to start the new year off with, so catch "E-mail purgatory" in the January 4 Saipan Tribune.

The packaging avalanche

In today's Saipan Tribune:

"The floor is littered with boxes, plastic blister packs, cardboard, greeting cards, ribbons, bubble wrap, tags, pins, bows, wrapping paper (my nemesis), polystyrene packing, plastic bags, and all the rest of it. I know I'm not the only one digging out from an avalanche of packaging and related garnishments..."