Email AuthorJeff Balke
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Track Your Bud Lets You Find Out Where Your Brew Was Born
March 12, 2012 in Eating Our Words
There are many things about food and drink that I will readily admit confound me. How did salty, slimy fish eggs become a delicacy an ounce of which cost more...
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App of the Week: iCab -- A Highly Recommended Alternative to Safari
March 12, 2012 in Hair Balls
App: iCab Platform: iPhone, iPad Website: iCab Mobile Cost: $1.99 One of the great innovations of cell phone technology is the ability to use the Web on a phone in much the same way...
Comparing the Rockets Starting Lineup to the Best in the West
March 09, 2012 in Hair Balls
App of the Week: Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo App
March 08, 2012 in Hair Balls
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iCan't: 4 Reasons Why Even the iPad 3 Won't Cause Me to Buy One
March 06, 2012 in Hair Balls
Even Stephen Colbert can't convince me.In April of last year, I wrote about whether I should buy an iPad. After a few musing paragraphs, I came to the begrudging conclusion...
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Playing the Over/Under Game on Twitter: 8 Bets to Consider
March 06, 2012 in Hair Balls
I don't really do any gambling. It's not really because I don't enjoy the thrill of a good game of chance. It's more because I like the little money I...
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Five Reasons You Should Quit Using Internet Explorer
March 05, 2012 in Hair Balls
For more than ten years, I've been assisting companies in building and maintaining their Web sites and Web applications. There are lots of things that can be frustrating about this...
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Turn Your Browser and Cough: The Top 15 Health Care Web Sites
March 02, 2012 in Hair Balls
Star Trek's resident hypochondriac, Reginald Barclay.Lt. Reginald Barclay was a character on Star Trek: The Next Generation. By trade, he was an engineer, but he was well known on the...
George Clooney Visits the Wortham Center May 3
March 01, 2012 in Art Attack
Say What You Will About the Rockets, at Least They Aren't the Clippers
March 01, 2012 in Hair Balls
Robert Franz, Houston Symphony Conductor Extends Contract Through 2014
March 01, 2012 in Art Attack
SaveOnBrew.com Goes Mobile to Help You Find Deals on Beer Nearby
March 01, 2012 in Eating Our Words
King's X Marks The Spot: Three Bands Spawned by Houston's Hard-Rock Power Trio
February 29, 2012 in Rocks Off
App of the Week: Instagram
February 28, 2012 in Hair Balls
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Hooray for Hollywood? The Academy Really Wants You to Go to the Movies
February 27, 2012 in Art Attack
Halfway through the 84th Academy Awards last night during what felt like the 10th Diet Coke commercial focused on the "magic of Hollywood," I wished I was watching on a...
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10 Bizarre (And Surprisingly Expensive) Ways to Hide a Cat Litter Box
February 27, 2012 in Hair Balls
What are you looking at, bitch?I have cats. Yes, I'm a fortysomething man with cats. You got a problem? What I have learned over the years is that the biggest...
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In Prog We Trust: Five Progressive Rock Bands You Hate, But Shouldn't
February 27, 2012 in Rocks Off
Photo by groovehouseJohn Myung of Dream Theater is better than your favorite band's bass player.There are some forms of music that struggle to find critical acclaim while others are loved...
84th Academy Awards Live Blog!
February 26, 2012 in Art Attack
Get Your Live Blog on for the Oscars This Sunday
February 24, 2012 in Art Attack
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Against All Odds, the Rockets Keep Winning
February 24, 2012 in Hair Balls
Scrappier than Scrappy-Doo...and less hated."Scrappy, man. Just scrappy." I was talking with a buddy of mine the other day and that was the phrase that seemed to be uttered by...
App of the Week: Tophatter
February 23, 2012 in Hair Balls
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Google Auto-Complete Answers: Why Are Fat People...
February 21, 2012 in Hair Balls
?Randomly typing the start to questions into Google launches a whole host of weirdness that changes depending upon the searches people type into the search engine giant. Not only are...
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The Five Best Times to Stay Off Twitter
February 20, 2012 in Hair Balls
Sometimes seeing the fail whale is not the worst thing in the world.Twitter can be a really engaging tool. It provides a great way to benignly interact with people and...
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Support Staff: 10 Of Pop History's Greatest Backing Bands
February 20, 2012 in Rocks Off
Being behind the scenes is what most musicians who don't write songs or sing expect of their lives once they start seriously playing. A career backing someone up can be...
JotForm.com Takedown: No Court Order? Apparently, No Problem
February 17, 2012 in Hair Balls
