I’ve been a huge Butch Walker fan for years, but his concerts local to me always seem to happen when I can’t make it. Not this time. I took the afternoon off, hooked up with a hot date, and headed North to Baltimore. Slowly. Really slowly. I mean really freaking slowly. A combination of Friday […]

This is going to get ranty. You’ve been warned. My wife wears an insulin pump. It costs over $5000 and has be replaced every 4-5 years. The supplies it consumes monthly run several hundred dollars. Every.Month. There are no generics, no alternate suppliers. We bend over and pay whatever Medtronic wants. Insulin pumps have been […]

We had some time to kill after dinner Friday evening before we needed to pick up our daughter from a Girl Scout event. So we wandered into the new Joseph Beth store at Spotsy Towne Center.
I don’t get it.
They are trying to play up the independent bookstore angle, but there is no indie vibe about […]

Last night when we came home from dinner we had no internet. After I rebooted the router and modem and tested a few things to convince myself that it was not an issue with my equipment, I sucked it up and called tech support. In the 3 or 4 years we’ve been on CavTel DSL […]

If your computer crashes on resume with any version of Ubuntu after 9.04, and you have a Radeon video card, this might be your answer.
Open a terminal and type the following.
sudo echo options radeon modeset=0 > /etc/modprobe.d/radeon-kms.conf
Then reboot, and you may have resume back. I did.
If you care about the techie details, read on.
Kernel Mode […]

A richly detailed account of post WWII history and the espionage, political, and scientific machinations that surrounded the quest for an even bigger and better thermonuclear bomb.
Read the review.

I love it when famous people break interesting concepts. Particularly when it’s something we’ve been talking about around here for years.
As if the Sadie Hawkins Day dance wasn’t bad enough
The college question
The declining value of a college degree
A 4 year degree is highly overrated
Seth Godin is afraid college is about to crash and burn. He […]

Micheal J Fox dropped out of high school to follow his dream, acting. Obviously, that worked out pretty good for him. Now he has written a book aimed at graduates. Irony aside, anybody at his level of success has learned a lot. That those lessons were not supplied by the school system is not relevant. […]

One of the things I’ve always wanted to do on ODonnellWeb is catalog the books I read. I’ve written a lot of book reviews here, although I’ve probably not reviewed more books than I have actually reviewed. I’ve listed books on social media sites, but I never keep up. All of which is a long […]

I heard this song flipping through the radio while stuck in traffic on the way home. It was on the Top 40 channel, and the guitar work caught my attention because it was a hell of a lot more interesting that what you normally hear on the radio. I had never heard the song before. […]