K.C.'s Garage

Kim, Willbob, and I headed up to Muir Woods to see the giant redwood trees.

I went out Saturday to scope out Palo Alto airport (KPAO) and see about securing a tie-down spot for my Cessna.  The airport is busy but charming, with somewhere around 400 aircraft based there.  It's situated between the town of Palo Alto and the San Francisco Bay, right next to Palo Alto Baylands Park & Nature Preserve.  So, naturally, I decided to check out the park after visiting the airport.

Many of you saw my recent tweets complaining about the Sony PlayStation 3 firmware update version 3.21 that cripples the second operating system "OtherOS" feature of the PS3. Since then, I've received several questions as to why I thought Sony would remove such a feature, and why I cared so much. The answers to both questions require more than 140 characters. Here, I will try to explain. The PlayStation 3 as a Computing Platform Briefly, the PS3 is an amazing computing platform. It boasts a 7-core 3.2GHz IBM PowerPC cell processor architecture unlike pretty much anything available at even twice the price. It works with USB and Bluetooth Wireless input devices (mouse, keyboard, gamepads, &etc), has HDMI, Composite, and Component video outputs, digital audio output, an internal SATA hard drive, 802.11b/g wireless, and a Blu-ray DVD-ROM drive. Sony has, from the start, marketed the fact that this amazing "game console" also supports the ability to run Linu...