I've spent about a month on twitter.com. I've come to some conclusions about it's usefulness and lack thereof.

Craig is right again... Amazon is suing the state of New York over its clearly illegal and unethical attempt to obligate citizens of other states to serve as tax collectors for New York: http://www.nysun.com/news/amazoncom-sues-stop-ny-tax.

New York plans to enforce a new law requiring Internet retailers to collect sales tax on sales shipped to customers in New York. This sounds fair, since local retailers have to collect the tax. But it's not just unfair, it's illegal.

On the eve of the Iowa Caucuses, here's my summary of the campaigns.

The Elecraft K3 is a high-performance ham radio transceiver that I think is going to set a number of new performance standards in its industry. It is brand new (as of this writing), with the first units shipping on October 8, 2007. I ordered within minutes of the announcement of this radio on April 27, 2007 and was privileged to get serial #25. Numbers 1-15 were field-test units, so this was an early unit.

I posted a page-by-page photo diary of my building experience at and thought I'd add some comments here that might help others who are building this radio.

I get several emails every month from people running QuickVerse 4 and needing help to install it on a new machine, or to install some add-on product. Or they want to know where to find a particular QuickVerse 4 Bible, CD, or other related program. I've made a decision tonight to just be done with that topic.