Craig Froehle has long been amazed by the possibilities enabled by new and interesting technologies. As an early adopter of the original Pilot PDA in 1996, he founded the company that would become MemoWare, the planet's largest collection of PDA-formatted ebooks and content. MemoWare was purchased by Handmark in 2001. Craig is currently a business professor at the University of Cincinnati in the department of Quantitative Analysis & Operations Management. He earned his Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his academic research focuses on helping hospitals and healthcare providers improve their efficiency and quality. Most of all, Craig enjoys spending time with his wife, daughter, and son, including watching movies, traveling, hiking, and discussing who should have the remote control. Craig rarely has the remote control.

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When Public Schools Play Politics, Everyone Suffers
Today, I got the following email from the Hamilton County (Ohio) Democratic Party. I think it stands on its own. Enjoy. Dear Craig, There is controversy over President Obama's televised speech today to school students across the nation, a speech urging them to stay in school, to graduate, to work...

Are Disenfranchised Americans Starting to Act Like al-Qaeda?
Since having their elected leaders tossed out in the elections of 2006 and 2008, some conservative and libertarian Americans have started to emulate the people of the two countries the US recently invaded: Iraq and Afghanistan. Certainly, it's understandable that some would tend to idolize those who they see daily...

Look for Recent Comments at Top of List
My apologies...again. The system clock on my webserver went bonkers a couple days ago and reset itself to Jan. 1, 2000, so recent comments will be appearing with date stamps around then. That means they'll be appearing at the TOP of the list of recent comments rather than the bottom...

Since his was old enough to pick up a screwdriver, Bob Nonnenkamp has been tearing objects apart to see how they work. Eventually he learned to put them back together again, a great relief to his family. He received a Bachelors and Masters in Electrical Engineering (and a black belt in Tae Kwon Do) at the University of Louisville. He has worked the last 15 years in a wide spectrum of roles at a worldwide technical company, which has offered him the opportunity to meet some interesting people and travel to interesting places. His current quest is to find a satisfying balance between work, family, pets, and recreation.

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Logitech MediaBoard Pro on PC (7.5/10)
I've had a week to play with the MediaBoard Pro on my PC. I had no problems connecting to the DL120 Bluetooth adapter in my media PC. It wouldn't connect to my laptop at first, but it worked fine after I upgraded my laptop's Widcomm Bluetooth software to 5.x. Pros:...

What's your favorite media keyboard?
In some ways, my German heritage makes me a penny pincher and a tech laggard. For example, I finally bought my first digital television to make sure the guests can watch football over the Thanksgiving holidays. (A cheap 46" Sharp AQUOS LC-46C55U 1080p 60Hz LCD from Costco.) Step 1 Buy...

Ethernet over power adaptors
With the election behind us, I need some gear chat to help forget about collapsing 401Ks. My wife and I work at home a lot. When I run the microwave, it completely disconnects the wifi connection on her Dell D610. My ThinkPad doesn't have this problem, go figure. Anyway, I...

Ken Rhee has been interested in innovation and creativity ever since he can remember. He was always playing and tinkering with new toys when he was growing up -- he was just curious about a lot of different things. Ken is currently a management professor at Northern Kentucky University. He received his Ph.D. in organizational behavior from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland prior to coming to NKU. His research and teaching interests are leadership and emotional competencies, groups, adult learning, and organizationl change and development. When he is not working on his research or teaching, he can be found doing a number of 'odd' things. His main hobbies include his PDA (Pilot 1000 was his very first), computing, photography, audio, and reading (I have been told I have an eclectic taste by people who know me). He also loves travelling with his lovely wife, Stephanie, and playing golf and tennis. He would love to find more time (and money) to devote to his hobbies since they tend to be both time consuming and expensive.

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Pain Squared
Since we are running "pain" entries this week, I will add a few of my own: 1. The hard drive in my Scientific Atlanta DVR just conked out. I have had the unit for less than 2 months! Time Warner is sending the service personnel tomorrow to fix it (my...

Good Old Fashion Grading--no technology in sight
As you are aware, I'm a college professor, and toward the end of April and the beginning of May, I suffer from a burnout. As students face the end-of-the-semester burnout from preparing for exams and writing their major projects, we the teachers also suffer from another kind of burnout. I...

My experience with IBM Thinkpad Support--Thumb up or down?
As you have been aware that I have recently upgraded our in-home wireless to 802.11g from 802.11b. Of course, I naturally wanted to upgrade the internal mini-PCI card (Intel Pro 802.11b) in my Thinkpad 41p rather than to add a CardBus wireless card (which I have done with my...

Mitchell Hamm is a mechanical engineer by trade and spends his days managing the engineering activities of a very successful manufacturing facility near Cincinnati. Time away from work is filled with a whirlwind of activites rotating about his lovely wife Victoria and frighteningly intelligent two-year-old daughter named Trinity. Computing, fast cars, movies, sports and electronics have always been his passions, but his greatest achievement in life is being a great father. Though always a Kentuckian, he currently resides in West Chester, Ohio.

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Chernobyl On Two Wheels
Combine a pretty Ukrainian girl named Elena, a big ZX-11 Kawasaki, a Geiger counter and what's left of Chernobyl and you have a winning website in my book. Elena's probably ill-advised forays into the Chernobyl nuclear dead zone reap some really poignant photos and being the daughter of a...

Modern Day Public Branding
On the way to work this morning a big white pickup truck pulled out in front of me without even looking. I'm so used to trucks and SUVs driving like wankers that I wasn't even creative with my expletives. My blood pressure did not spike one bit. Sitting behind...

Free Google eMail
I heard this morning that Google will be offering free email accounts with 1 gig of storage in the near future. If you don't want to be Bob54789 you better be ready to jump....

Sam Peralta is a poet, novelist and songwriter who moonlights as director of business development at Kinectrics, a successful utility engineering company. Sam also founded Qvadis, one of the earliest Palm software companies, and is now at work on his next project. Sam earned his Ph.D. in laser physics from the University of Wales, UK, and holds patents in nuclear batteries and other technologies. Other fun things he's done recently include spearheading the acquisition of a Texas Instruments solar business, developing a system for datacasting over power lines, building a Sonar-based personal music studio, and coming up with the recipe for a killer seafood fettucine in a pesto cream sauce.

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CTIA Cellphone Directory - Open to Abuse?
The Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association (CTIA) has announced that it is putting together a directory which will contain 75% of the 163 million mobile phone numbers in the USA. The CTIA is positioning the directory towards real estate agents and other mobile professionals who want people to be able...

Archeologists Locate Library of Alexandria
Archaeologists have announced that they have discovered the site of the Library of Alexandria. A Polish-Egyptian team has uncovered what look like lecture halls in the Bruchion region of the city. The 13 lecture halls uncovered could potentially house 5,000 scholars. A conspicuous feature of each of the rooms is...

Portable Light
Universal Display Corporation (UDC), is presenting a collection of new product concepts for Wired's NextFest, being held this weekend in San Francisco. UDC is a developer of organic light emitting devices (OLED), with applications for flat panel display screens and other applications. UDC will be showcasing three innovations, a...