Blog O'Stuff

From Garmin: Garmin is voluntarily recalling certain nüvi devices that contain a specific battery that was manufactured by the battery su...

This morning I went down to my gun club to install a Linux box to serve as our new and improved email and web server.  Although I had perfor...

Thank you to those readers who have purchased stuff after clicking on a link to Amazon.com from this site. Every so often I get a gift cer...

A family trip this weekend reiterated for me why I do not think that cell phone based GPSes are viable 100% replacements for dedicated GPSes...

Over on Survival & Emergency Preparedness .

This morning I put in the Schoolhouse Rock DVD for the girls and they said that they wanted to watch the "Money Rock" category. I...

Dropbox is a cloud-based file backup, storage, and sharing site which uses Amazon's S3 service as the backend.  I've recently start...

For the past couple of years I've had a Microcenter house brand 8 GB USB flash drive on my keychain. It's handy for keeping a backu...

I write like William Gibson I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software . Analyze your writing! {H/T GWA.45}

Over on Survival and Emergency Preparedness , I've posted a review of The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse . C...

Press release from the Second Amendment Foundation : For Immediate Release:   7/15/2010 BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation h...

I spent a few hours over the past two nights in iPod Hell. The other night, Judith decided she wanted to be able to run apps on her first-...

Grass Roots North Carolina / Forum For Firearms Education Post Office Box 10684, Raleigh, NC 27605 919.664.8565 / 919.562.4137 (Fax) www...

The ink is hardly dry on McDonald and Alan Gura and the SAF are already making their next move, this time in North Carolina . This time, t...

IMO, the McDonald decision is interesting for several reasons: 1. The right to keep and bear arms (RKBA) is recognized as a "fundame...

SCOTUS just released their opinion in McDonald v. Chicago, which challenged Chicago's handgun ban.  The court held that the Second Amend...

Having been laid low with a sinus infection for most of the past week and a half, I really needed to do something enjoyable.  So, Saturday n...

This past week and a half has been a real PITA at Chez Markowitz.  All of us, except my younger daughter, came down with some form of sinus/...

Farm whales ! My green energy solution: Factory whale farming. We would first need to secure a large enough facility for the farm. With ...

From the UK, here is a page giving a detailed timeline of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.  One thing which I've found to be very inter...